Agaete

It has grown from a town in the northwest of the Canary Island of Gran Canaria. Politically, it is part of the province of Las Palmas. Most inhabitants live in the capital of the same name, which marks the entrance to the Barranco de Agaete. Agaete lies to the west and north-east of Puerto Rico from Las Palmas. The neighboring municipalities are Gáldar in the Northeast and Artenara in the south. The district on the harbor called Puerto de las Nieves. The place is heavily agricultural, due to its fertile cultural landscape. The products were previously shipped over Puerto de las Nieves.

Traffic

From Puerto de las Nieves offers from the shipping company Fred. Olsen Express direct, regular ferry service to Santa Cruz on the neighboring island of Tenerife. Las Palmas is approximately 20 minutes by car on the motorway GC -2. The place is connected to the network of public buses.

In Agaete ends the current state (summer 2013) the far part four-lane coastal island expressway, from the island capital Las Palmas and the airport counterclockwise coming. Closing the gap south to Puerto Mogan and Mogan is planned and partly in labor, but let in light of the financial problems of the Spanish state and the construction industry to wait a few years away. The more traffic guidance along the western cliff happens south of the small harbor of Puerto de las Nieves over a relatively narrow and winding pass road that offers breathtaking views of the Atlantic and in good visibility conditions on the neighboring island of Tenerife and the volcano Pico de Teide in some places.

In Agaete the impasse, which opens up the Valle de Agaete, the west begins directly behind Agaete and one of the most beautiful valleys ( Barranco ) of the island is completed. The higher you get on this about ten kilometer road in the valley uphill, the green is the agricultural with the fruits and vegetables used valley. Recently a wet dewdrops of high humidity, stroking mostly from the north with the trade winds over the neighboring mountains. At the endpoint, the access road is an abandoned SPA - conditioning and a bus stop.

Attractions

In the old center, which is dominated by Canary houses with wooden balconies typical, rises in the central square, the parish church Iglesia de la Concepción. The structurally simple church was built in 1875 on site of an earlier previous building, which was destroyed by a fire in the previous year. At the annual celebrations of the Bajada de la Rama, the kept in the Chapel of Puerto de las Nieves Portrait of the Snow Maiden, is placed in the parish church of Agaete where the Blessed Mother is invoked as intercessor for rain. In the urban park Huerto de las Flores ( German: Flower garden ) on the outskirts of the town center imposing specimens of tropical and endemic Canarian flora ( dragon trees ) were planted. Important landmark and home mountain has grown from the Monte Tamadaba.