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Three girls surfing pose beside the Maspalomas Lighthouse at sunset

04/05/2026

Gran Canaria, an Island Without a Script

There is an island, Gran Canaria, where sometimes the best stories are the ones you never planned.

Holidays are often imagined as a series of perfect days, carefully planned, where everything unfolds without a hitch. However, the true magic of travel does not lie in perfection, but in quite the opposite, in imperfect moments, those unexpected instances that transform the experience into something deeply human, memorable and authentic.

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Aerial view of El Confital and Las Canteras Beach, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

20/04/2026

Moby Dick never left Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

The iconic film by John Huston, based on the novel by Herman Melville, was shot in the island’s capital 70 years ago.

When Herman Melville was writing Moby Dick, one of the great novels in the history of literature, he left clues about the white sperm whale that gave the book its title throughout the work. However, it would not be until a hundred years after it was written, between 1954 and 1955, that this literary creation, first published in 1851, would take on the image recognised today by all film lovers. This is the version seen in the film directed by John Huston and starring Gregory Peck in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This is where much of the filming took place, particularly the scenes featuring the great white whale that so obsessed Captain Ahab.

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