SAN BARTOLOME DE TIRAJANA

A quiet, agricultural town on the lip of a crater, the Caldera de Tirajana, San Bartolome is the administrative head of the municipality which controls the tourist complexes of San Agustin, Playa del Ingles and Maspalomas. Climb its steep and sober streets, wander in its quiet squares and you will find a world far removed from the parched beaches of the deep south: a pastoral landscape of orchards and cultivated terraces.

San Bartolome de Tirajana is famous for its local liqueur, guindifla, distilled from the sour cherry, or guinda, and combined with rum and sugar.