Directory of Valleseco

  • Valleseco is a lovely green region of Gran Canaria, located 7 kms. center-north of Teror and 28 kms. from the capital. It is formed by two main canyons: Barranco de la Virgen and Barranco de Madrelagua, and a not so "Seco" (dry) central valley ("valle"), for which receives its paradoxical name the town.

  • Fifty days after Easter, in the Witsun Monday, San Vicente Ferrer, the patron saint  of Valleseco, was brought to this municipality from the Church of Teror

    16 de Mayo
  • Bar Cafetería Mi Cielo – C/León y Castillo, 15, Valleseco (tlf. 928- 61 87 76) Horario: 6:00-17:00 Mon-Fri

     

  • TOWN HALL                       928 61 80 22

    TOURISM OFFICE             928 61 80 22 ext 221

    LOCAL POLICE   928 61 89 08/616 98 81 84

    CIVIL GUARD (TEROR)   928 63 00 84

    TAXIS                                  928 61 80 80

    HEALTH CENTRE            928 61 99 80

    QUEMIST'S                        928 61 80 29

     

  • Valleseco' s Ecological Market, known as EcoValles is the first ecological market in the island. It has 10 stands which provide differents products such as dairy or packet products, all of them certified

  • If you want to eat the best pastries and cakes, come to this bakery situated in the center of Valleseco.

    Mon-Sat 8.00 a 13.30; Tue-Fri 16:00-18:30
  • Within the village of Valleseco, you will find the Ethnographic Museum, where you can learn more about a typical Canarian product, el gofio, a kind of flour made of toasted corn, widely used all over the islands. The Tourist Information Office of Valleseco is also situated at this point.

     

    Monday to Friday from 08:00 a.m. - 15:00 p. m. ; Free entrance
  • Straddles a beautiful ravine and provides amazing viewpoints of Teror and Las Palmas.

    Mondays - Sundays: 08:00 - 18:00
  • In the center of Valleseco, you can find this bar and take away, where you can eat homemade dishes.

     

    Tuesday-Sunday 10:30-16:00; Tuesday-Thursday, Sunday 20:00-23:00; Friday,Saturday 20:00-0:00
  • Dña. Mª Dolores Rodríguez Vega: Weaver

    Dña. Isabel Concepción Hernández: Weaver

    Dña. Mª Carmen Ojeda Suárez : Weaver

    D. Antonio Vega Suárez: Carpenter

  • After 15 years working in the quarries of Arucas, he established himself as an independent craftsman, taking full advantage of his gift of drawing that he had cultivated since his childhood.

  • The reason to build this church in honor of Saint Dominican from Valencia was because of the great devotion that the inhabitants of Valleseco had for him since he was in the holy Church of Teror which was their church before Valleseco separated. The congregation, in which all neighbors belonged, built the first chapel, with the tax money collected in 1170. It was later replaced by the present church.

    MASS TIMETABLE: Tuesday and Thursday 18:30 pm; Saturday 19:15 pm; Sunday 11:00am, (Saturday 18:00 pm Iglesia de Zumacal)(1st Saturday of each month 16:45 Iglesia de Valsendero) SUMMER TIMETABLE: Tuesday and Thursday 19:00 pm; Saturday 19:30 pm; Sunday 11:00 am THE CHURCH IS OPENED FROM 8:00 TO 11:00 AM; FROM 15:00 PM TO 17:00 PM
  • The first Sunday of October another festival is held in our municipality, the Apple Festival in honour of Our Lady of la Encarnación. Villagers on carts, dressed in traditional costumes, come in pilgrimage to offer their products to the Virgin on the eve of the main day

    2 de Octubre
  • This is the ideal place to eat delicious burgers and pizzas, and a large variety of dishes.

     

     

    M-Th 20:00-23:00 ; V 20:00-00:00 horas; S 10:00-00:00; S 10:00-23:00 horas
  • Leaving the most populated part of town, just a few kilometres from the Valleseco downtown, is the site of the Cortijo Calderetas which you can get to by walking a short distance from the off the main road. This beautiful landscape was formed by a large volcanic caldera which gave life to the surrounding chestnut, elm and pine trees.

  • Valleseco township has a significant heritage of traditional rural architecture, linked to farms that are scattered in throughout the territory or in small groups here and there. An excellent example of one of these groups of homes are in Monagas, it's a wonder how their location and their landscape seem to absorbed them.