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2 hours

Age 0+

Max. 20 pax

What will you discover on this tour?

  • The Vandewalle House, whose main owner was Mr. Luis VandeWalle, a native of Bruges who immigrated to the palm island more than 5 centuries ago.
  • The first projection that was made in the Canary Islands and which is the work of Mr. Miguel Brito who brought the Lumiere cinematograph to the island.
  • One of the most important photographic and cinematographic exhibitions in the Canary Islands.
  • Visit to the studio and filming room.

Tour Description

Welcome to our most "Mediatic" Tour. You will learn about the importance of cinema and photography through the largest private collection of the Canary Islands that houses the historic Vandewalle House, located in one of the oldest and most representative mansions of the island, with its intact Mudejar roof, carved stone tiles and blue ceramic tiles from Delf, brought at the time from the Netherlands.

In the bowels of this mansion is one of the most precious collections, an endless number of priceless images and objects that perfectly reflect the history of cinema as it developed.

Photographs, audiovisual information on cultural themes of the Canary Islands... Many are the things that help us to show the evolution of the image from the proto-cinema to the latest trends, with our own productions.

From the Magic Lantern with its moving image glass plates, to the idealized views of the city of Santa Cruz de La Palma visualized through an optical box. To the panoramas and dioramas and the first cameras that filmed documentaries of the island. Optical toys, zootropes and phenakistoscopes with moving drawings... And this is just a foretaste of what awaits you there.

Also the Cine NIC, the children's cinema, "the magic of filmmaking" that gave the author of this collection a wink, many years ago, of the fascination for cinema. A journey that goes from the eight millimeter films to the digital format, with a proven sensitivity for the island landscape, scene of films and documentaries of long didactic scope.

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Van de Walle House. Calle Virgen de la Luz, 15 38700 Santa Cruz de la Palma

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