{"id":87,"date":"2019-12-19T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site67.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/12\/19\/castillo-de-la-fortaleza\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:48:28","slug":"castillo-de-la-fortaleza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/2019\/12\/19\/castillo-de-la-fortaleza\/","title":{"rendered":"Castillo de la Fortaleza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-84 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/site67.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/68\/files\/sites\/68\/2019\/12\/Gran-Canaria-VIP-Castillo-Fortaleza-02-1024x1015.jpg\" alt=\"Castillo de la Fortaleza \" width=\"1024\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/68\/files\/sites\/68\/2019\/12\/Gran-Canaria-VIP-Castillo-Fortaleza-02-1024x1015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/68\/files\/sites\/68\/2019\/12\/Gran-Canaria-VIP-Castillo-Fortaleza-02-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/68\/files\/sites\/68\/2019\/12\/Gran-Canaria-VIP-Castillo-Fortaleza-02-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/68\/files\/sites\/68\/2019\/12\/Gran-Canaria-VIP-Castillo-Fortaleza-02-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/68\/files\/sites\/68\/2019\/12\/Gran-Canaria-VIP-Castillo-Fortaleza-02.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Castillo de la FortalezaCastillo de la Fortaleza (Calle de Tom\u00e1s Arroyo Cardoso, 35280 Santa Luc\u00eda de Tirajana) \u2013 located an hour (53 km) southwest of Las Palmas, this is not so much a castle but an ornate 20th century folly, which was originally the home of local historian and writer, Vicente Sanchez Ara\u00f1a. Today, it serves primarily as an archaeological museum (displaying local finds such as pre-Columbian artifacts, agricultural tools, leather goods and skeletons).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Located just off the entrance to the town, you can\u2019t miss this impressive building for its grey stone turrets. Within its walls, you will find 16 rooms displaying various aboriginal artifacts and water color paintings by local artists. Admission: \u20ac2.00 each. Hours: 10:30 am \u2013 5:30 pm (weekdays), 11:30 am \u2013 5:30 pm (weekends).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castillo de la FortalezaCastillo de la Fortaleza (Calle de Tom\u00e1s Arroyo Cardoso, 35280 Santa Luc\u00eda de Tirajana) \u2013 located an hour (53 km) southwest of Las Palmas, this is not so much a castle but an ornate 20th century folly, which was originally the home of local historian and writer, Vicente Sanchez Ara\u00f1a. Today, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.grancanaryvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}