Blog Oficial de Turismo de Gran Canaria

The promenade between the beaches of Las Burras and San Agustín offers panoramic views and also captures the essence of the southern coastline.

The colossal and the minute coexist in the views from the promenade linking the beaches of Las Burras and San Agustín in the south of Gran Canaria. Your gaze is likely to be drawn first to the imposing presence of the Atlantic, which here appears immense and thunderous as it crashes against the coast. The tip of Maspalomas and the dunes can be glimpsed in the distance, towards the west. They form a winding golden outline that frames the scene. 

There is an island, Gran Canaria, where sometimes the best stories are the ones you never planned.

Holidays are often imagined as a series of perfect days, carefully planned, where everything unfolds without a hitch. However, the true magic of travel does not lie in perfection, but in quite the opposite, in imperfect moments, those unexpected instances that transform the experience into something deeply human, memorable and authentic.

The World Tourism Organization (UN Tourism) names the Gran Canaria municipality the Best Tourism Village 2025.

Agaete is a verse by Tomás Morales, a brushstroke from a luminous painting by Pepe Dámaso, the sound of oars slicing through the ocean waters. It is the early-morning crack of a firework, the cheerful bustle of music and papagüevos, a sunset gazing towards Mount Teide. It is a play of colours that changes every day, the Faneque cliff rising over the Atlantic; it is the sea, the trace of an ancient aboriginal culture, Malpaís and Maipés. It is a lush valley, it is coffee, mango, orange and papaya; it is fish, it is the crab that peeks out as the waves break. It is El Juncal, the devotion to the Flemish painting of the Virgin of Las Nieves, it is Faneroque, Antigafo, El Risco – and the majesty, energy and magic of Guayedra Beach.