The Stadium That Wants to Drink the Fog: Inside Gran Canaria’s Green Bet for the 2030 World Cup
Buried among the hundreds of pages of technical documentation for the overhaul of the Estadio de Gran Canaria is one detail that sounds more like science fiction than a construction brief: mesh modules mounted on the roof, designed to intercept the tiny water droplets carried by the north wind Canarians call the alisio. The collected […]
Thirty-eight thousand people in one Facebook group: how the Canary Islands’ digital nomads built their own community
The Facebook group “Tenerife Remote Workers and Digital Nomads” has more than 38,000 members. The one covering the whole archipelago, “Canary Islands Digital Nomads & Remote Workers”, tops 17,000. These numbers alone say something official tourism data rarely captures: behind the label “digital nomad” sits an ecosystem built largely on informal networks, assembled from the […]
Three thousand people, a hundred countries, a whole month: what Audi’s world convention leaves behind in Gran Canaria
Throughout September, more Audis than usual are crossing paths on Gran Canaria’s roads. It is not a coincidence. The island is hosting the Audi Partner Convention 2026, the international gathering that brings together all of the German carmaker’s markets and its worldwide dealer network, with roughly 3,000 people arriving from more than 100 countries. This […]
Gran Canaria turns a volcanic crater into a battery as its desalination plant starts testing
Twenty metres below sea level, inside a 1,300-metre intake pipe, Atlantic seawater has begun flowing toward the interior of Gran Canaria. The island’s Water Council (Consejo Insular de Aguas) has confirmed that seawater intake for the Salto de Chira project is complete, and that desalination plant testing is now underway ahead of pumping water, in […]