Las Palmas de Gran Canaria it has occupied always a place in the cultural forefront, doing of her a receptive city which inhabitants have could look at the world with opened mentality, absorbing good and new all that was circulating along the principal Atlantic port in the route between three continents. Thanks to his privileged situation, Las Palmas of Great Canary, pole and beacon simultaneously, it has been the point that attracted the richest flow of cultures and from where the phenomenon of the interculturalidad was projected towards the exterior. Languages, cultures, trade and ideas gave to themselves appointment in this capital for from here going, following the mysterious direction that indicates the rose of the winds, up to the most remote corners of Africa, of Europe and of America.
From the birth of this city, at the end of the 15th century, and Christopher Colón's step along his bay in the Trip of the Discovery of America, the history of Las Palmas of Great Canary has been testimony of the traffic and development of new cultural currents. Particularly, from the construction of his Port of the Light from 1883, it is example and very visible expression of successive and diverse forms of the modern movements.
The sea, stamp of our identity, is likewise horizon and hope, for us, and for those who from the neighboring Africa support with our capital human, commercial relations and of development that the cultural project that we try to advance undoubtedly they will stimulate.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria it can presume to have could take forward for centuries an exemplary experience of cultural heterogeneous conviviality, which has turned out to be wealth-producing for his neighbors and visitors. This experience comes supported by the manifestations socioculturaIes that we think, especially, from the last third of the 19th century, that they speak to us about a forceful and cosmopolitan city, and of a company proud to be a protagonist of his to develop.
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