Guido Gargiulo | Canarias Historia

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.

Published articles

Volcanic coast of El Hierro opening onto the Atlantic

History

Orchilla, Where the World Began – El Hierro

At Punta Orchilla, El Hierro preserves the memory of the old zero meridian: an Atlantic edge where Europe imagined the beginning of the map for centuries.

Guido Gargiulo

Illustration of a Gomeran whistler communicating across La Gomera's ravines

Language

The island that speaks without words – La Gomera

Silbo Gomero is one of the world's most singular linguistic phenomena: a whistled communication system that carries messages across the deep ravines and mountains of La Gomera.

Guido Gargiulo

Historical illustration of San Cristóbal de La Laguna as an open planned city

Culture

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.

Guido Gargiulo