Familiar as La Villa del Agua, Firgas is a very picturesque city on the Northern Babu Canary. It is well known throughout the archipelago with its springs and sources rich in mineral water. Despite the fact that he did not have the sea and the smallest municipality of the Round Island, Firgas stands out with its historical center, with its typical houses and paved streets, as well as its architectural and ethnographic traditions.
If you once lived in the Grand Prix, you have friends or acquaintances or visited it for several days, most likely I tried their water with gas figures, “Aguit for life”, as a well -known very repeated slogan says on the island. “From -his tonic climate, his sparkling mineral water, more pleasant than any other that you are when you are drunk, and the exquisite beauty (…) I am almost sure that they expect the days of prosperity for this popular place of the highlands,” he left the Oliveia Olivia written at the end of the nineteenth century after traveling to the island.
But in addition to drinking water, if you go to the company, you cannot stop walking along Paseo -Grand Canaria, admire the aatlantic ocean from Mirador -de -Pila, visit the Church of San Roka (16th century) or on the mythus of Gofio, one of the oldest in the whole archipelago.
If you are in Las -Palmas -de Canaria, the capital of the island, the distance to Firga is 25 kilometers, half an hour by car and about one hour if you travel by bus. On the bus “You can take buses (buses) number 204, whose trip ends in Firgi or some of those who are aimed at Arukas (numbers 205, 206 and 210) and from this municipality, having reached the number 211 to Firgas,” they explain to the web of Gran Canaria tourism.
Approximately 465 meters above sea level, FII, intersects with many ravines full of rich vegetation to detect. But before plunging into your most wild environment, we tell you that you cannot miss the island in the smallest municipality.
Paseo de Gran Canaria and Canaria
It is located in its historical center, in the old real center of the center. On a slope on which a beautiful artificial cascade was built 30 meters high. On the one hand, we find 21 heraldic shields of municipalities of the island. And on earth seven Canary Islands were drawn, with their shields and some landscape that represents them.
House of Culture
This building is one of the most traditional in the municipality. It was built in 1870 and placed an old fund in which Azuaje bathroom users remained (with medicinal waters and are turned on as such in 1868). Later there was a headquarters of the city council, and then at a state school. He is currently taking the municipal library, audience and exhibition hall.
The construction is located in the NEO Canary style, with its wooden balconies of the island, empty facades, crowned with bluish -tones -scary and courtyard.
Plaza and Church San Carc
This is another of the nervous points of the historical center of firms. From this square -where the monument rises to the San Juan -De -one of the most revered in the municipality -you can enjoy one of the most symbolic species to the north of the Gran of Canaria, and on clear days you can see on the horizon, furterephus Islands and Tenerife.
The Church of San Corros rose in 1845, on the ruins of the old Hermitage San Juan -De -dating from 1502 years, from which only one facade is supported.
Royal and mill
The ancient royal Azecia recovered in the project, which ended in 2009. The anth passes in parallel on the ravine of mothers in Firgi, and from there – Arukas to a neighbor, known for living in one of the oldest rates from the scar in Spain, founded in 1884. On a trip by double we will find ponds, landrines, galleries or melsirs, considered one at a time.
This mill was built in 1512 and remained for four centuries in operation. Until 1959, from a big drought, he had to stop spinning. Thanks to its restoration, it is currently working, and you can visit it and evaluate how fried sweet (corn) was cool for the production of Goofio, food present in all Canary houses. In 2007, the mill was declared good cultural interest.
Ravings and points of view in the jungle of the dramas
Most of the firms are located in what was previously called the Dramas jungle (Canary Aboriginal Herrero), the Laurilva lush forests area. Currently, only 1% of what it was. The fact that today is a special natural reserve Azuaje – with 61.1 hectares without popularity – we find a rural park of the Dramas and the ravines of Azuaja, with water for a year or a park of mothers and Guadalup. In their lands, another of the star products of Canary gastronomy and one of the main ingredients of it is more on a lot, water ponds, which are currently grown on sculptural terraces in small water ponds, known as Berrera.
Firgan ravines are ideal for pedestrian routes and take the opportunity to relax and relax in complete calm and voluminous sounds of nature. In addition, in Azuaje there was the main spa of Firgas, which wears the same as the gorge, and which was allocated for its medicinal waters, very rich in iron, although the building is currently in ruins.
As for the point of view, from the historical center 300 meters, from where you can see the view of the ravines of mothers, guadalup and agaja, and about how the pellets located on the road leading from Firg to Terra and from which you can enjoy the panoramic view of the Jungle Dopas.
If you go to this area and decided to make an excursion on foot or on a bicycle, 6 circular routes were developed with the arrival and exit from Plaza de San Roque, which are perfectly marked and differentiated by flowers.
