The historic Casa Anchieta in La Laguna, the childhood home of the renowned saint and designated a Cultural Heritage Site, will host the Anchieta Week programme 2026. This initiative will take place from 16th to 19th June, reaffirming the municipality’s role as a bridge between the Canary Islands and Brazil, and between Europe and Ibero-America, through the universal figure of José de Anchieta—a humanist, writer, and one of the most influential personalities born in the city.
Programme Highlights
This edition aims to create a space for historical analysis and contemporary reflection that connects various cultures and peoples. It intertwines Anchieta’s Renaissance perspective with a modern sensitivity towards heritage, memory, and intercultural dialogue. Through lectures, workshops, poetry, music, and debates, the programme invites participants to rediscover a figure whose life has inspired generations through words, spirituality, and science.
Official Announcements
The Cultural Heritage Councillor of La Laguna, Adolfo Cordobés, today outlined all the details of this year’s programme alongside Alejandro Fajardo, the Director of the Padre Anchieta Cultural Chair, and Brazilian historian and member of the Carioca Academy of Letters, Paulo Roberto Pereira.
Cordobés stated, “Anchieta is undoubtedly the figure born in La Laguna with the greatest international and historical impact. His life and work transcended borders and continents, becoming a bridge between peoples, languages, and cultures. This Anchieta Week reminds us that his legacy is still alive and continues to inspire the city more than four centuries later.”
A Celebration of Diversity
The councillor highlighted that this year’s programme “reinforces La Laguna’s vocation as an open, diverse city that has been deeply connected with Ibero-America since its origins.” He added that Anchieta Week “is also an opportunity to approach a man who was much more than an evangeliser: a Renaissance humanist, a man of science and literature, a unique mind who wrote in Latin, Portuguese, and Tupi, and a privileged witness to the first Atlantic globalisation.”
