The exhibition is part of Adeje Book Week and is in the Convento San Francisco
20 april 2022
Until April 23rd you can call into the Convento San Francisco, just beside the Adeje Town Hall, and browse a fascinating exhibition featuring myths and legends surrounding the Canary Islands.
The building, which is hosting many of this year's Adeje Book Fair events, is open to the public from 10am to 1pm and 5pm to 8pm until April 23rd, and this exhibition is in collaboration with Bileno and the journalist and investigator José Gregorio González.
Councillor for education and libraries María Clavijo Maza, said that this year "we want to place focus on mystery and adventure, and many of the Fair's activities are related to these themes". Many of the borough's public schools have already paid a visit to the exhibition.
The thread is that "mysteries and legends have been part of humanity's journey since the dawn of time, and we are often unaware of the number of mysteries that surround us, often connected to places far away". This exhibition feautures 8 myths and legends that form part of the heritage of Canarian culture, and often find themselves woven into the literature of these islands, the myth of Saint Brendan/San Borondón, the Champs Elysees, mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as a region that is in the Atlantic Ocean, composed of a mild climate that could refer to these islands, stories of witches, guanches, Irish fairy lights, and more.
