Kid-friendly places in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Big city park with two playgrounds, one for babies and toddlers, plus waterfalls, a café and a mock Canarian village with folk dancing.

Long park of palms and trees with a big playground split for small and older kids, a kiosk café, a running track and a stone climbing wall.

Spanish and Canarian cooking, from classic tapas to more modern plates, with tables outside a couple of streets from the beach.

The old governor's house where Columbus is said to have stayed in 1492, with ship models, sea charts and a full-size copy of a cabin from the Niña.

Spain's largest botanical garden, free to enter, with a grove of dragon trees and hundreds of plants that grow only on these islands.

The islands' first people, told through pottery, idols and tools, and a 19th-century room lined with hundreds of skulls and a handful of mummies.

Hands-on science across four floors: a fighter jet cockpit, a Van de Graaff generator, a planetarium, a ball pit and a children's room.