Vegueta
Vegueta—*Vegueta* in Spanish—is the founding quarter of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and it was formally protected as a national historic-artistic ensemble by a decree dated 5 April 1973. The name points straight to the landscape: it came from the *vega*—the fertile lowland—around the Real de las Palmas fortification, and was first known as “la Vegueta de Santa Ana.” Long before the neighborhood took shape, 24 June 1478 marked the landing of conquistador Juan Rejón. His troops established their first camp on the right bank of the Guiniguada, near what is now the Hermitage of San Antonio Abad, calling it the Real de las Tres Palmas. This was the first Castilian foothold in the Atlantic, and it was where the Crown of Castile assumed the conquest of the Canaries. …
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