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The History of the Canary Isles

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There are a lot of theories on the original Canary Island’s residents. However, none of them are backed by definite proofs. Even so, there is one thing that there is an enormous consensus that the Canary Islands had no native inhabitants, and that they have been inhabited since or before the year 1 BC. This leads to the question of where did the people come from?

The most popular theory is the one from La Laguna’s University in Tenerife that when the Romans dominated North Africa around 1st BC to 1st AD, they expelled the Canary’s indigenous people. This theory answers the lack of the original tribe’s expertise on seafaring; typical inland people. And also the exiled population lack of chance to study Roman building methods or Latin script. The Roman inhabitants never bothered with these islands as they observed no profit in making such a long, hard journey across the seas. Till the time sea routs to America opened.

The prominences of the harbor grew, with the start of the Trans Atlantic rout from America to Europe. The Canary Isles became an unavoidable stop for t the fleet bound for the Americas. The city achieved such an incredible development that in the 19th century, under the rule of Ferdinand VII, the capital status of Tenerife was shifted to Santa Cruz from La Laguna.

La Laguna (The Lagoon) till then the most important center for business transactions, started to decline after the shift. The layout and the infrastructure around the old center of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to the northeast after the 19th century, started to change dramatically.

Playa del Ingles, a part of the municipality of San Bartolome de Tirajana, is located in Spain. Situated on the southern coast of the Gran Canaria Island, the city is popularly known as the ‘Beach of the English’.

The beaches are made of sand ridges that flow for the Sahara desert; they have long stretches of beaches, and also linked with few other beach cities like Maspalomas and San Agust

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