
In Tenerife, the city that taught Latin America how to build itself
San Cristóbal de La Laguna was an open, planned Atlantic city that anticipated decisive features of Spanish-American colonial urbanism.
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Guido Gargiulo is an Italian writer and analyst, with a degree in Languages and Cultures of Europe and the Americas from L'Orientale University of Naples. He runs Osservatorio Esteri Taiwan, the only Italian daily information page dedicated to Taiwan, and contributes to publications including L'Europeista, Geopolitica.info and Focus on Africa. He has a deep fascination with the history, culture and Atlantic identity of the Canary Islands.

San Cristóbal de La Laguna was an open, planned Atlantic city that anticipated decisive features of Spanish-American colonial urbanism.
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