Tourism in the Canary Islands Site that is the third largest volcano in the world from its base, El Teide. Teide is the most visited national park in Spain, with a total of 2.8 million visitors, according to the Instituto Canario de Estadística (ISTAC), and it is one of the most visited National Parks in the world. Gran Canaria has the biggest city in the Canary Islands, Las Palmas. Gran Canaria receives approximately 4 million tourists every year. Maspalomas is one of the most famous tourist attractions. This island is considered to have the best weather in the Canary Islands and some of the best
The Natural History of Iceland in an 1870 issue of "Notes and Queries": Although the contributor to "Notes and Queries" remarked that "Horrebow's chapter is ... not so ridiculous as generally supposed", the earlier English translation of the chapter is still much better-known. The phrase "snakes in Iceland" is listed in the "Oxford English Dictionary", where it is traced to the 1758 translation and defined as "something posited only to be dismissed as non-existent". The Natural History of Iceland The Natural History of Iceland () is a natural history of Iceland by Danish lawyer Niels Horrebow. It was first published in Danish in 1752 with