Historical Routes
Editorial routes connecting articles, timelines, figures, islands and key terms.
Conquest and Indigenous resistance
A route through European arrival, Indigenous resistance and the transformation of island society.
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Canaries and the Americas
Stopovers, migrations, ports and cultural links between the islands and the American Atlantic.
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The Guanche world
Language, archaeology, foodways, names and memory of Indigenous Canarian societies.
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Volcanoes and landscape
A natural and historical reading of the volcanic Canarian territory.
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Language, place names and Amazigh memory
Words, names, whistles and signs preserving linguistic memory across the archipelago.
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Women in Canarian history
A route for locating women’s voices in conquest, culture, memory and creation.
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Piracy, defense and fortifications
Corsair attacks, strategic ports and defensive responses in the Canarian Atlantic.
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Literature, memory and identity
Writers, island myths and cultural memory in the construction of Canarian identity.
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Cities, ports and territory
The urban formation of the Canaries through ports, island capitals, water and double insularity.
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Institutions, autonomy and island power
Cabildos, courts, provinces, parliament and autonomy in Canarian political organisation.
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Protected nature and biodiversity
Laurisilva, endemic flora, national parks and conservation of Canarian natural heritage.
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Popular culture, identity and humour
Gofio, speech, demonyms, popular figures and everyday forms of Canarian identity.
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