The cultural landscape “Risco Caído and the sacred mountains of Gran Canaria”

Miguel de Unamuno visited Gran Canaria twice and wrote the most famous description of the impressive Tejeda basin, part of the Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains Cultural Landscape: “Passing paths hacked out of sudden, steep cliffs, we visited the Tejeda valley. The spectacle is imposing. All those black walls to the great cauldron, with its peaks, that look like battlements, with their erect rocks, give it a Dantesque vision. The cauldrons of Hell visited by the Florentine author must look just the same. It is a tremendous commotion in the bowels of the Earth; it all seems like a petrified tempest, but a tempest of fire and lava rather than water [...] Here we can only guess at what must have been a terrible fight between Vulcan and Neptune, the god of fire and the god of water.