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11/08/2025

Molino Quemado, a Journey into Gran Canaria’s Milling Tradition

The new Cereal Interpretation Centre of Mogán also features a local dining area, water channels, plantations, and informative panels.

Some buildings leave a lasting mark on the landscape. The Molino Quemado of Mogán is one of those landmarks that always catches the eye with its imposing presence and beauty. Fortunately, we can now do more than admire it from the outside — we can step inside and explore it, embarking on a journey into the island’s milling heritage. Not only do the informative panels detail the features of this 19th-century mill, which played a key role in the agricultural and economic life of Mogán and its surroundings, but they also introduce us to the various types of mills that once existed, the grains that were milled, and the workings of the machinery that so many people on Gran Canaria depended on.

21/04/2022

Biosphere Reserve, all the faces of Gran Canaria

The magic of the Gran Canaria Biosphere Reserve is swaddled in a murmur of nature and human heartbeats. On the one hand, the space shows the thousand faces of the Island’s landscape. The other faces of the land are far from metaphoric. They belong to the men and women who have proven their close links to the environment through traces of rural uses, such as the case of lime ovens, tar or fish ovens, charcoal bunkers and windmills. Life literally relied on nature, as shown in the use of pine needles to fill mattresses and plump up the place where livestock slumbered.

Views from the Cathedral of the Canary Islands

05/04/2022

7 ‘celestial’ plans for Holy Week in Gran Canaria

From the top of a tower to the bottom of the sea. It all fits perfectly into the world of experiences that unfolds during Holy Week in Gran Canaria.

02/03/2022

The Timple puts the whole world in your hands

The instrument is part of the Canary Islands' identity and an example of the universality intrinsic to timple players such as Gran Canaria's German López.

Greatness is sometimes found in the smallest things. The musician Germán López made this discovery at an early age, when he was barely five years old. He wanted to play the guitar, but his fingers hardly reached the strings, so a teacher suggested that he started with the timple. Discovering the infinite possibilities of that seemingly humble instrument turned what was once a passing solution into a lifelong passion.

10/02/2022

Gran Canaria nights, home of the stars

Gran Canaria is renewing the certificate that declares the Island’s Biosphere Reserve a Starlight Destination

Gran Canaria continues to gaze dreamily up at the skies, with a passion that expands throughout the universe. The Island has renewed the certificate declaring its Biosphere Reserve a Starlight Destination until 2025. This certification recognises its commitment to astrotourism and consequently to protecting its night skies, keeping that extraordinary window on the stars wide open, for people from all over the world to gaze out of every day.

03/02/2022

Gran Canaria, a landscape forged by volcanoes

Fifteen million years ago, the ocean used to spread its blue expanse right over the same place where the island of Gran Canaria stands today. Then, the island rose from the bottom of the sea as a result of the force of volcanic eruptions, as this archipelago was born from volcanoes. The subsequent building and erosional stages gave rise to an astonishing and complex geological environment which lies behind the rich landscapes and the environmental and ethnographic wealth that attract visitors from all over the world.

17/01/2022

A Visitor Welcome Centre in Telde

The municipality of Telde, in the east of Gran Canaria, is situated in a fertile plain known as “La Vega Mayor”, a place one falls in love with at first sight. If we step inside this area, we will find an even greater treasure: bananas, oranges, cucumbers, flowers, ornamental plants, tomatoes, peppers and sugar cane are grown there.

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