The shared seat of the High Court of the Canary Islands is located in the two capitals of the archipelago: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the seat of the presidency, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the seat of contentious administrative courts and one of the labour courts.     The high court of Canary Islands is located in the capital and constitutes a judicial instance forming part of the general framework of the sole judiciary of the State, adapted to its territorial competence. 

The high court of Canary Islands is the maximum judicial organ in the territorial sphere of the autonomous community, without affecting the jurisdiction corresponding to the Supreme Court  (article 152 of the Constitution) and matters which demand constitutional guarantees, jurisdictional authority of which corresponds to the Constitutional Court. 

It is located in the heart of Vegueta, the oldest neighbourhood in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria