A walk through Vegueta and Triana, with a tapa stop

This is the old city of Las Palmas on foot, with a guide to yourselves. It starts in Parque San Telmo, by the kiosk-bar El Modernista at the top of Calle Mayor de Triana, a few steps from the San Telmo bus station, and spends about two and a half hours in the two districts that make up the city's historic centre: Triana, the old merchants' quarter with its pedestrian high street, plazas and narrow lanes, and Vegueta, across the old course of the Guiniguada ravine, where the city began.

Vegueta is the reason to come. The city's tourist board dates Las Palmas to 24 June 1478, when an army sent by the Crown of Castile set up a camp near the mouth of the Guiniguada, and Vegueta grew around it as the administrative and religious centre. Plaza de Santa Ana, laid out in the early 16th century, sets the cathedral and the town hall face to face, a plan the tourist board says was later copied in the Americas. The cathedral of Santa Ana was built in two stages, from 1497 to 1570 and again from 1781, Gothic and Renaissance inside behind a mainly Neoclassical front. A few streets away is the Casa de Colón, named after Columbus, who stopped on Gran Canaria in 1492 to repair the rudder of one of his ships, and whose carved stone doorway and wooden balconies face Plaza del Pilar Nuevo.

Somewhere on the way, at a local bar, comes the tapa. The listing includes one tapa and one drink each, a soft drink, wine, beer or coffee, and its copies on other sites add that vegetarian and gluten-free tapas can be asked for, that the route can follow your interests, and that the pace is easy. Being private, there is nobody else to wait for, and time for questions.

On 6 November 2026 it cost from 55 euros a person on GetYourGuide, with free cancellation up to 24 hours before and booking at least 6 hours ahead. GetYourGuide labels it wheelchair accessible. The listing has no fixed start time on its public page: the calendar shows the slots on sale.

Of the walks through the old town on GetYourGuide on 6 November 2026, this was the one with both a high rating and a long record: 4.7 from about 220 reviews, and the only one that is private and includes food. The cheapest way to see Vegueta with a guide is the English-Only Vegueta Old Town Walking Tour, 9 euros for an hour, rated 4.1 from about 320 reviews: good for a quick look, but shared, shorter, Vegueta only and with nothing to eat. For more food and less history, Las Palmas: Tapas & Drinks in the Old Town is 55 euros for 2 hours, rated 4.7 from about 90 reviews, and its listing copies give two tapas and two drinks in a small group, meeting at the San Telmo church. The Gourmet Tapas and Wine Tour in the Old Town costs 47 euros and was rated 4.2 from about 20 reviews. If walking is the problem, the 90-minute tuk tuk tour of the city's history and viewpoints was rated 4.9 from about 40 reviews at 35 euros.

For a couple who want a guide to themselves, the old town explained and a drink in the middle, this is the one we would book. From the south it is a day in the city rather than an afternoon, so pair it with Poema del Mar, our aquarium page, which is in the port, a short ride away. Staying in Vegueta, Hotel Veintiuno on our Gran Canaria page is 15 minutes' walk from the start, and its restaurant notes tell you where to eat when the walk ends.