article_snippet.sent: Unesco World Heritage Site Old Las Palma was a favourite of the likes of Columbus .
article_snippet.sent: Old Las Palmas made a rare and long-lasting export to the New World –
article_snippet.sent: little central square, the Plaza Mayor de Santa Ana.
article_snippet.sent: With the New World – neat arrangement of town hall, Santa Ana Cathedral, Episcopal Palace and other civic buildings all in one place, the New World – was taken as the model for many of the main squares in Central and South American cities in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
article_snippet.sent: Today, Old Las Palmas is recognised as a Unesco World Heritage Site for a Unesco World Heritage Site role as an architectural staging post between the Old and New Worlds.
article_snippet.sent: Columbus called here three times on his journeys west.
article_snippet.sent: his is celebrated in the Old Town in the fine old Columbus Museum, Casa Museo de Colon, where his is thought to have stopped in 1492.