Plazoleta san jose

This environment is where the beginnings of the city are . Here again the conquest of Gran Canaria ( 1483 ) ends , Sancho de Vargas sends build a shrine in honor of Our Lady of Guia , from which it was erecting a settlement that grew in importance as advancing years .

First , the population center is called "Villa Guide " , but this name was changed first to " Guide Gran Canaria " and finally, in 1963 , to Santa María de Guía . It was in 1871 when Guide will receive the title of City . Their socio-economic development , thanks to good conditions for agriculture that occur in this area mirrors the economic cycles that occur in the archipelago : first sugar cane , then later wine and cochineal, and finally , from the late nineteenth to the last decade of the twentieth , the banana. Thanks to the resultant economyexploitation of these crops , Guide always had in the island context with outstanding economy and affluent segment of the population , something that was reflected in the architecture of its homes. Guide also always stressed in the fields of art and culture , for not only artisans have shining examples , but politicians, musicians , poets and sculptors , that especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries made ​​this municipality listed among the highlights Canaries.

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