Welcome to the Canary Islands
We visited two of the Canary Islands on a NCL cruise out of Barcelona in 2015. While the islands are off the west coast of Africa, I included them in Europe due to their relationship to their parent country of Spain
- Population of 2,153,389
- Autonomous community of Spain from 1982
- Part of the European Union
- 43% of population live on Tenerife
- 40% live on Gran Canaria.
- Romans credited with discovery
- Official Language is Spanish
- 5 hours ahead of east coast
- Drive on the right
- Currency is the Euro
- 12 million visitors a year