Canary Islands
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The Canary Islands or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost autonomous community of Spain, located about 100 kilometres off the northwest coast of Africa. The archipel
Guanche mummy of a woman (830 AD). Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
A selection of artefacts unearthed from the Lomo de los Gatos site on Gran Canaria
Reconstruction of a Guanche settlement of Tenerife
Alonso Fernández de Lugo presenting the captured native Guanche kings of Tenerife to the Catholic Monarchs
Canary Islanders
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Canary Islanders, or Canarians, are the people of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain near the coast of Northwest Africa. The distinctive variety of the Spanish language spoken in the
Canarian women singing in Gran Canaria 1972
Painting of Bimbache of El Hierro by Leonardo Torriani, 1592
Canary Islanders in Tenerife, by Alfred Diston, 1828
Silbo Gomero demonstration at a restaurant in La Gomera