Visitor Centre in Castillo de la Luz, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Throughout history Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has been faced with catastrophes: during the era of sea exploration, for example, pirates repeatedly attacked it. In the late fifteenth century, the first governor of this group of islands ordered the construction of a fortress – Castillo de la Luz – to protect Las Palmas from pillaging. That threat subsided, but others took its place and the city was sacked and rebuilt a number of times. The fortress suffered a similar fate: it wasn’t until the seventeenth century that a more peaceful era began.
