This island is characterised by its central massif of a height of 1487 metres, dropping steeply to the sea. The region of Alto de Garajonay was declared a National Park.
Particularly interesting are the population's very old and original popular customs. The inhabitants of the different valleys use to communicate with each other in a whistling language, comparable to the "yodling" in Central European Alps.
San Sebastian de la Gomera: The islands capital is a picturesque small town, connected to Tenerife by a ferry-boat, Christopher Columbus made halt on his travel to America. He received help of Doña Maria de Bobadilla , the widow of Grafen Peraza , to repair one of his ships, La Pinta .
Many things in San Sebastian remind of those happenings still today. Of the Count's fortress, anyhow, only a tower is conserved, the Torre del Conde.
Population: 40.341.500 Languages: Castilian Spanish 74% (official nationwide); Catal Currency: euro Currency code: EUR Local Times: Spain - Madrid
Spain - Barcelona
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Widely known for Flamenco music and dance, bull-fights, fantastic beaches and lots of sunshine, Spain has just about every ingredient for the holiday maker. Travel is easy, accommodation plentiful, the climate benign, the people relaxed, the beaches long and sandy, the food and drink easy to come by and full of regional variety. More than 50 million foreigners a year visit Spain, yet you can also travel for days and hear nothing but Spanish.
Area: 504,780 sq km
Population: 39,644,000
Capital: Madrid. Population 3,500,000 people
Currency: The euro; formerly the Spanish peseta.
Language: Castilian (generally known as Spanish), as well as regional languages in Galicia (Galician), the Basque Lands (Basque), Catalunya (Catalan).
Visa: No visas are necessary for EU nationals staying a maximum of three months.
Geography: Spain consists of the Spanish mainland, which occupies most of the Iberian peninsula (Portugal has the south-western edge), the Balearic islands (Ibiza, Formentera, Mallorca and Menorca) in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands (La Palma, Tenerife, Gomera, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Hierro) in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco.
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