The Arrecife Gran Hotel & Spa better known as Gran Hotel, is a skyscraper in the city of Arrecife ( Canary Islands, Spain). It is the tallest building on the island of Lanzarote at 54 meters tall and 15 floors (above ground). Completed in 1974, it is located at the end of Maritime Avenue of Arrecife by the sea and ''Playa de El Reducto''. The building functions as a 5-star hotel and its height also makes it the tallest building in the Canary Islands outside of

Tenerife Tenerife (; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It is home to 43% of the total population of the archipelago. With a land area of and a population of 978,100 inhabitants as of Janu ...

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Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that ...

. In November 1994, the building suffered a fire which caused no fatalities because it was empty.Sin posibilidad de extinción
/ref> The fire originated at 6 pm on the ground floor of the building and quickly spread to the upper floors. Although the structure of the building was not damaged, some time later the façade was restored and modernized with a steel and glass roof.

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