La Aldea De San Nicolás – Coast, Nature and Culture

Along the approximately 30-kilometre-long, still largely unspoilt coast of La Aldea De San Nicolás, you can go kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding in calm, clear water. For planning your trip, activities on the water and routes through the landscape can be considered as separate focuses.

When comparing a holiday apartment in La Aldea De San Nicolás, you can compare travel dates, room categories and cancellation policies on the respective offer pages. For choosing a location, the coast, nature, culture and cuisine can be considered side by side as different themes of your trip. You can also weigh the focuses of your trip separately: coast and water, nature and trails, historic sites and museums, festival culture or local cuisine. This selection connects specific characteristics of the area with different ideas about your stay and makes the thematic breadth of La Aldea De San Nicolás directly comparable.

Culture and history

The historic centre of the municipality of La Aldea De San Nicolás extends from Plaza de La Alameda via Calle Real to La Placeta. The indigenous settlement of Los Caserones is one of the largest on the island and was protected as a Site of Cultural Interest on 7 February 1986. The Lomo de Caserones burial mound was fenced off and prepared for visits by locals and tourists.

Several museum sites in La Aldea De San Nicolás convey local traditions and crafts through practical demonstrations, including milking, ploughing, threshing, bread baking and cheese making. The Fiesta de El Charco takes place every year on 11 September at Playa de La Aldea. History, crafts and festival culture can be classified as different cultural focuses.

Nature and trails

A natural area in La Aldea De San Nicolás consisting of mountains, ravines and beaches features distinctive geology shaped by the island’s volcanism. The hiking trails of La Aldea De San Nicolás lead through pine forests, past coastal cliffs, as well as through ravines and to natural viewpoints.

In the far north of the municipality of La Aldea De San Nicolás there is an impressive coastal cliff; a massive gravitational landslide led to the formation of the Arco del Andén Verde, and the summits and mountain passes offer impressive panoramas. La Aldea De San Nicolás is home to a well-preserved Canary Island pine forest of considerable botanical importance.

At the mouth of the Barranco de La Aldea lies a wetland that serves as a breeding, feeding and resting area for numerous resident and migratory waterbirds as well as small woodland birds. For planning your own day, you can distinguish between the coast, ravines, forest and wetland. Water activities, hiking trails and panoramas represent different types of activity and perspectives.

Other location pages:Tasarte, Maspalomas, Arguineguín, El Chorrillo, Lomitos De Correa, La Ladera, Las Marciegas, Artenara

Local cuisine

Ropa vieja de pulpo is a dish that was created in the municipality of La Aldea De San Nicolás.

For the broader travel overview: Gran Canaria.