SOCIAL GROUP, 24th April 2011

Visit to Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Ferry to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Visit to Bandama’s volcanic caldera.

Today we have been visiting Tenerife’s capital, Santa Cruz. We went on a quick sightseeing, walking around the old town and old port. There it was where later on we took a ferry to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. We travelled to Bandama’s volcanic caldera, where we did not see any social processes at all. The most remarkable fact we saw it was the golf course just near by the amazing caldera. We were taught how the English people who were living in Las Palmas (most of them working on trade or commercial) moved to that part of the island, close to the capital of Gran Canaria but still far from the city. There they built their own houses, most of them easily recognisable due to the characteristic British architecture. There were that English citizens who built this golf course in the 19^th century, being therefore the oldest in Spain. Finally, it is also remarkable how the 75% of the population of the island is living there, so it is here where all infrastructure is concentred too. This is saying how different is Gran Canaria in spatial distribution terms compared to its sister Tenerife.

We have been discussing about the method from how we will approach our future goals. What we are sure now is we want to crumble social structures and where are them located.