The Maspalomas Summer University will find a vein in 2024 that is exciting: the history of the islands through maps. But, of course, in this there are details such as the 1562 map of Diego Gutiérrez, cartographer of the Casa de la Contratación of Seville, and Jerónimo Cock, notable engraver of Antwerp, released the best map of America of that time and where the islands were very well reflected. Two copies of that map remain: in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and the other in the British Library in London.
The one who set the pace in the Canary Islands was the engineer Torriani who came to build fortifications and lived in Gran Canaria, which was "the island that most concerned the Court and where its mission is most important" and where, furthermore, "he felt better" , according to Fernando Gabriel Martín, in the book 'The first image of the Canary Islands'. The drawings of Leonardo Torriani, from the Official College of Architects of the Canary Islands. The cartography workshop at the Maspalomas Summer University costs 10 euros.
