Meloneras
Meloneras | |
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Town | |
Meloneras Location in Canary Islands | |
Coordinates: 27°44′23″N 15°36′18″W / 27.7398163°N 15.6050589°WCoordinates: 27°44′23″N 15°36′18″W / 27.7398163°N 15.6050589°W | |
Country | Spain |
Autonomous community | Canary Islands |
Province | Las Palmas |
Municipality | San Bartolomé de Tirajana |
Postal code | 35100 |
Meloneras is a tourist town on the south coast of the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, part of the town of Meloneras in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
It is mostly characterised by tourist hotels and other accommodation. Its most prominent landmark is the Faro de Maspalomas, next to Maspalomas Beach and the Maspalomas Dunes.[1]
Some of the luxury hotel complexes in Meloneras display are notable for their Canarian Spanish Colonial Revival style, partly derived from de la Torre's Hotel Santa Catalina (1890) in Las Palmas. The Costa Meloneras Hotel, opened in 2005, incorporates a replica of the nearby town of Agüimes (the home town of , founder of the Lopesan Hotel Group), including a distinctive replica of the large, domed , which serves as the hotel reception.[2]
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Meloneras. |
- ^ "Meloneras - The Official Gran Canaria Tourist Website". www.grancanaria.com. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- ^ Quintana, Teresa Aguiar; Canino, Rosa M. Batista (2017). Successful Case Studies in the Canary Islands' Tourism Industry. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 72–73. ISBN 9781527502789. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- Populated places in Gran Canaria
- Tourism in Spain
- Canary Islands geography stubs