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Towers of San Matías Church in Artenara, with Roque Nublo in the background

10/08/2026

The towers of Artenara gaze upon those of Gran Canaria

There are four towers that gaze skywards while blurring the boundaries between sky and earth on the summit of Gran Canaria.

These stone beacons catch the eye and draw it upwards, with the insistence of a child and the perseverance of centuries. They point to the obvious. The uninterrupted blue and the pine forests at their feet. But they also reveal a reality that escapes the eye at first glance. It is the passage of time and the stories of those who have lived and continue to live on the border between two worlds.

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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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Tenteniguada, Valsequillo

06/04/2026

The Blue Eyes of Valsequillo, Gran Canaria

The blue tajinaste, Roque Grande and Roque Chico are among the natural symbols of Valsequillo, in Gran Canaria.

Sweetness begins with a sound: the buzzing around the flowers of the blue tajinaste and thyme clinging to the slopes of Valsequillo, a municipality of honey, landscapes, cheeses, trails, sensations and cultures. The seemingly unplanned flight of bees forms part of a choreography of Nature that culminates symbolically at Roque Grande, the stone sentinel of this area where Gran Canaria reaches towards the sky and gazes out over the ocean.

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