City of Galdós

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is the city of Galdós. His figure is present in different corners: in his birth house -transformed into a museum-, in sculptures and monuments, in the Pérez Galdós Theater and especially in the neighborhood of Schamann, where 51 streets, three squares and a traffic circle are named after characters and works of Benito Pérez Galdós.

The writer was born in the capital of Gran Canaria in 1843. And although it would be in the gatherings, newspapers and public scene of Madrid where he would consolidate as a universal writer, it was in the capital of Gran Canaria where he grew up, lived his childhood and had his early and adolescent education. And in the local press he began to stand out as a journalist, columnist and cartoonist, always with an acid sense of humor.