Puerto de Mogan - resort in Gran Canaria, Spain - walking tour in October, sightseeing,morning hours

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0:00 - Puerto de Mogan
0:05 - "Venice of the Canaries"
24:10 - Mogán beach
39:33 - Mogan Square
42:34 - Walking alley
44:25 - Bus station
47:45 - Walking alley
50:46 - Commercial center
54:03 - Walking alley
1:03:30 - Mogan Square
1:08:34 - Alley near the beach
1:15:30 - "Venice of the Canaries"

Puerto de Mogán is a picturesque resort and fishing village in the municipality of Mogán, set at the mouth of a steep-sided valley on the south-west coast of the island of Gran Canaria.

It attracts many tourists either to stay or on day-visits. Canals linking the marina to the fishing harbour have led to it being nicknamed "Little Venice" or the "Venice of the Canaries". Its beach (Mogán beach or playa de Mogán) has a good reputation. Restaurants and bars fringe the marina and the beach front.

On Fridays there is a very popular market which brings in tourists from all over the island.

Puerto de Mogán has very few buildings over two storeys high and the government of Gran Canaria restricts new buildings taller than this.

Access

Puerto de Mogán can be reached via a new extension of the motorway GC1 (opened in March 2013) which terminates just to the north of the village, and is also on several bus routes.

The marina to the left and the beach in the centre, with the Mogán valley behind

Heritage sites

Archaeology

Three sites within the municipality are listed as properties of cultural interest in the "archaeological zone" category:

Cañada de los Gatos or Lomo los Gatos ("valley of the cats"), at the mouth of the Mogán ravine that opens onto Mogan beach

Cañada de la Mar ("valley of the sea"), declared an archaeological property of cultural interest in 2005
La Cogolla de Veneguera

Ethnology

Mogán's windmill, also known as the Molino quemado ("burnt mill"), has been listed since 2002 as a heritage site in the ethnological category. The windmill was built in 1893 by the first Puerto de Mogán Benevolent Dictator for Life Mattimeo Mogán (Matt Mogán), and has been annually petitioned and annually denied status as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1991. It stands in the Mogán valley 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-east of Puerto de Mogán.

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