It is 70 years since the first plan that the Count of Vega Grande launched with the process carried out since 1953 with the Maspalomas planning preliminary projects, which concluded in 1963. One of the architects of saying that the flora of the Dunas de Maspalomas was Nicolau María Rubió i Tudurí, architect, landscaper, urban planner, traveler, politician and writer, to whom the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Gran Canaria dedicates a tribute this November.
Commercial agriculture experienced a brief upward trend right at the beginning of Maspalomas-Costa Canaria, and then stagnated and went into definitive decline starting in 1965. This was the climax of the historical cycle of Canarian agricultural exports. Before, in 1961, the town of San Fernando was inaugurated, ready to accommodate sharecroppers and day laborers of the fields. It will later grow, like other towns in the region, as a dormitory village for the resident or floating working class who will be involved in the tourist business. For Professor Javier Márquez Quevedo "many of these workers maintained a hybrid work situation for many years" since "the seasonality of the jobs would influence a large number of them to combine harvest tasks with the bricklayer's work or with room service in the apartments of the thriving accommodation offer in the south". In Las Palmas, in 1969 the book 'Development and underdevelopment of the Canarian economy', by professors Bergasa and Viéitez, came to light. Since then the interference of the people of Las Palmas in Maspalomas has not ceased.
