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Hotels in Canary Islands

 
Hotels in the Canary Islands, holidays with Iberostar Hotels & Resorts
  Hotels in Canary Islands

WHAT CAN I BUY AND WHERE?
  The Canary Islands have a wide range of shops that due to the special low-tax system sell products at great prices for visitors. For example, electronic goods, designer clothes, perfumes, tobacco, alcohol and various souvenirs.
The best area for shopping is in Arrecife, the island's capital city, where you can stroll around the streets and find all kinds of shops. The best area is around Calle Real.
The best place for shopping in Puerto del Carmen is the Biosfera shopping centre and in Playa Blanca the best places are the shops around Calle Principal, Marina Rubicón and the new El Pueblo shopping centre in Las Coloradas.
The handicrafts are exceptional: small containers, oil lamps and ceramic or clay pots made with primitive instruments or by hand. If only for their originality, it is worth mentioning "los novios del mojón", figures of a couple with well-developed sexual characteristics, which in former times were exchanged by engaged couples.
In Villa de Teguise they make the famous timple guitar, a small guitar with four or five strings, which is a traditional instrument in the Canary Islands. Other interesting items include fretwork, rosettes, lace products and palmetto hats of the kind used by country folk.