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Casa-Museo Tomás Morales in the old town of Moya, Gran Canaria
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📍 Moya·~26.6 km from Santa Catalina

✒️ Casa-Museo Tomás Morales

The birthplace of the modernist poet Tomás Morales, in the old town of Moya.

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Key facts

~26.6

kilometres · from Santa Catalina

~29

minutes

Approx. by road from Parque Santa Catalina, without traffic: actual time depends on traffic and the pickup point.

Suggested visit: 45–60 minutes

Museum · Moya

Official website: tomasmorales.grancanaria.com

Opening hours, closing days and tickets change: check them on the official website before you go.

This is the birthplace and family home of the poet Tomás Morales (Moya 1884 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1921), a mid-19th-century house and one of the most representative examples of traditional architecture in the old town of Moya.

The Cabildo bought it from the poet's heirs in 1966 and opened it as a museum in 1976. It keeps his archive, acquired in 1975.

What to see

  • The rooms where he spent his childhood and youth
  • Rooms on his life, his work and his literary context
  • The mock-ups of Las Rosas de Hércules and Néstor's drawings for its decorative borders
  • The “Bomboneras”, scrapbooks of press cuttings from 1908 to 1920

Location

Plaza de Tomás Morales s/n, Villa de Moya (north of Gran Canaria).

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Excursions that include this place

See the taxi route: Las Palmas → Moya →

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