Meloneras Explained

Meloneras
Settlement Type:Town
Image Alt:Aerial view of Meloneras showing beaches, hotels and the Maspalomas Lighthouse
Pushpin Map:Spain Canary Islands
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Canary Islands
Coordinates:27.7398°N -15.6051°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Spain
Subdivision Type1:Autonomous community
Subdivision Name1:Canary Islands
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Las Palmas
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:San Bartolomé de Tirajana
Unit Pref:Metric
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:35100

Meloneras is a tourist town on the south coast of the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, part of the town of Maspalomas in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana.

It is mostly characterised by tourist hotels and other accommodations. Its most prominent landmark is the Faro de Maspalomas, next to Maspalomas Beach and the Maspalomas Dunes.[1]

Some of the luxury hotel complexes in Meloneras display are notable for their Canarian Spanish Colonial Revival style, partly derived from de la Torre's Hotel Santa Catalina (1890) in Las Palmas. The Costa Meloneras Hotel, opened in 2000, the Villa del Conde hotel thas was opened in 2005, incorporates a replica of the nearby town of Agüimes (the home town of, founder of the Lopesan Hotel Group), including a distinctive replica of the large, domed, which serves as the hotel reception.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Meloneras - The Official Gran Canaria Tourist Website . www.grancanaria.com . 10 July 2019 . en.
  2. Book: Quintana . Teresa Aguiar . Canino . Rosa M. Batista . Successful Case Studies in the Canary Islands' Tourism Industry . 2017 . Cambridge Scholars Publishing . 9781527502789 . 72–73 . 27 January 2019 . en.