Birth House of Néstor Álamo

The illustrious Guian, musicologist and historian, Néstor Álamo, was born in this traditional Canarian stately-style house from the 17th century. Today it functions as a museum that bears his name, dedicated to his life and work and the history of music in the Canary Islands.

The building itself is an estimable example of a traditional Canarian house of stately character, which is accessed through a hallway that leads to the open patio, around which the different rooms are distributed. Its façade, common to other buildings in the city of Guía, preserves a wide masonry frame arranged vertically along the two floors. As a particularity in this house, the kitchen is located on the upper floor, since various textile shops and bookstores were installed here on the ground floor for more than a century.

The visit to the museum offers the possibility of understanding and enjoying the evolution of music in the Canary Islands, from those sounds created by the indigenous people some two thousand years ago to what is now heard in all corners of the archipelago, pausing on all those influences that shaped our music and culture. This discourse takes place through the different rooms of a stately building from the 17th century and, of course, having as its common thread the figure and work of the multitalented Néstor Álamo, who also dedicated a large part of his life to research, to the recovery of traditions, and ultimately to disseminate the history and culture of Gran Canaria.