{"id":5671,"date":"2025-11-14T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canayron.com\/?page_id=5671"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:51:00","slug":"the-background-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/canayron.com\/index.php\/the-background-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #343434;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;background-color:#343434;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #343434;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:right center;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-content-boxes content-boxes columns row fusion-columns-1 fusion-columns-total-1 fusion-content-boxes-1 content-boxes-icon-with-title content-left\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\" style=\"margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-content-boxes-1 .heading .content-box-heading {color:hsla(var(--awb-color8-h),var(--awb-color8-s),calc( var(--awb-color8-l) + 20% ),var(--awb-color8-a));}\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover .heading .content-box-heading,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover .heading .heading-link .content-box-heading,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover .heading .content-box-heading,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover .heading .heading-link .content-box-heading,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more::after,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more::before,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .fusion-read-more:hover:after,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .fusion-read-more:hover:before,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .fusion-read-more:hover,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more::after,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more::before,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover .icon .circle-no,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .heading .heading-link:hover .content-box-heading {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tcolor: var(--awb-color4);\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover .icon .circle-no {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tcolor: var(--awb-color4) !important;\n\t\t\t\t\t}.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box.link-area-box-hover .fusion-content-box-button {background: var(--awb-color5);color: var(--awb-color1);}.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box.link-area-box-hover .fusion-content-box-button .fusion-button-text {color: var(--awb-color1);}\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover .heading .icon > span {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground-color: var(--awb-color4) !important;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover .heading .icon > span {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tborder-color: var(--awb-color4) !important;\n\t\t\t\t\t}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-1 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last content-box-column-last-in-row\"><div class=\"col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade\" style=\"background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"heading icon-left\"><h2 class=\"content-box-heading fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"font-size:18px;--fontSize:18;line-height:var(--awb-typography1-line-height);\"><br \/>\n<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"content-container\" style=\"color:#747474;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 27px; color: #ffffff;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\"><b style=\"line-height: 48px; font-family: 'Abril Fatface'; font-weight: 400; font-size: 40px; letter-spacing: 0.28px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Abril Fatface\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"400\">THE BACKGROUND<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-5520 size-fusion-400\" src=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08-400x571.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08-400x571.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27571%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20400%20571%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27571%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08-200x286.png 200w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08-400x571.png 400w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08-600x857.png 600w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08-717x1024.png 717w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08.png 738w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-fusion-600 wp-image-5522\" src=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-600x363.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-600x363.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27600%27%20height%3D%27363%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20600%20363%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27600%27%20height%3D%27363%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-200x121.png 200w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-400x242.png 400w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-600x363.png 600w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-768x465.png 768w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-800x484.png 800w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02.png 823w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .heading-link:hover .icon i.circle-yes,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box:hover .heading-link .icon i.circle-yes,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover .heading .icon i.circle-yes,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover .heading .icon i.circle-yes {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground-color: var(--awb-color4) !important;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tborder-color: var(--awb-color4) !important;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:50% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 8.256%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 46px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #ffffff; font-family: Inter; font-size: 15px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"100\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\"><span style=\"color: #d6b426; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; font-family: Inter;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"100\"><b style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 32.68px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Yeseva One'; font-weight: 400;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Yeseva One\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"400\">The second half of the 15th century<\/b><\/span> <\/span><b><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Inter; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.285px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\">saw the introduction of sugar cane in Madeira and the Canary <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.285px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\">Islands. There was huge demand for this exotic product in Europe and as a result the lushest <\/span><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.285px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 24px; font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\">Canary Islands became known as the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.285px;\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(214, 180, 38); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\">\u00abSugar Islands\u00bb<\/span><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\">. Sugar mills, washing houses and boilers, customs houses, defensive castles and beautiful manor houses, in the style of small palaces were built, with farmhouses in the style of the areas where the colonists came from recreated for the new inhabitants. The white and refined sugars, honeys, second honeys, alfe\u00f1iques (long or twisted confection made from sugar cane and other ingredients) and honey soups produced from the cane built a sweet bridge, with solid pillars nailed deep into the Atlantic Ocean, from the Canary Islands to the European continent, with connections to Africa and the Americas.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #ffffff; font-family: Inter; font-size: 15px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"100\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.08px;\"><b data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\">At the end of the 19th century, and most probably with the arrival of the submarine telegraph cable on the Los Silos coast in 1883, which was laid by a British telegraph company, sugar cane cultivation, first introduced to Daute (an area in the northwest of Tenerife), by the visionary Alonso de Lugo to the islands at the end of the 15th century, reappeared.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #ffffff; font-family: Inter; font-size: 15px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"100\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\"><span style=\"font-family: Inter;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\"><span style=\"color: rgb(214, 180, 38);\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter;\"><b>The Lathbury Company (L&amp;C\u00ba)<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-family: Inter;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter;\"><b data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\">planted sugar cane on the Daute Estate, the same lands where sugar cane had been originally grown 400 years before. They built the sugar mill that can be seen today on the Los Silos coast, which is one of the few 19th century buildings constructed by the British company still standing in the Canary Islands today.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #ffffff; font-family: Inter; font-size: 15px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"100\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.285px; font-size: 14px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Inter;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\">The building boasts the wooden beams with the company stamp and the destination of<\/span><\/span><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-weight: 200; font-family: Inter;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(214, 180, 38); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 100;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"100\">\u201cDante\u201d<\/span><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-weight: 200; font-family: Inter;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Inter;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\">which was used in British ports because the fourteenth century poet was much better known than<\/span><br \/><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\"><br \/>\nDaute.\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #ffffff; font-family: Inter; font-size: 15px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"100\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.08px;\"><b data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\">We now find ourselves in the area with the only existing sugar mill in Tenerife and in the very same place where sugar cane was reintroduced to where it was first planted after the conquest of Tenerife by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Lugo towards the end of the fifteenth century. Sugar cane production was slowly replaced in the 16 th century by vineyards for wine production and then by tomato production. Lathbury &amp; Co planted sugar cane again in the 19th century until it was supplanted by banana plantations in the 20th century.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #ffffff; font-family: Inter; font-size: 15px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"100\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-size: 14px;\"><b data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\" style=\"font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\">Sugar cane had been grown all over this area since the 1500s, and started to be replaced for different crops when it was impossible to compete with the Caribean plantations. The small strongholds left and the Lathbury Company recoveries remained until the 1950s.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:50% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 46px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 10.944%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper lazyload fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 46px 0px 0px 0px;\" data-bg-url=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08-600x857.png\" data-bg=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-08-600x857.png\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"100\"><span style=\"color: #d6b426; font-family: Yeseva One;\"><span style=\"font-size: 40px; letter-spacing: 0.285px; line-height: 48px; color: #ffffff;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">THE BACKGROUND<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.08px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 24.08px; font-family: 'Yeseva One'; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(214, 180, 38);\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Yeseva One\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"400\">The second half of the 15th century<\/span> saw the introduction of sugar cane in Madeira and the Canary Islands. There was huge demand for this exotic product in Europe and as a result the lushest Canary Islands became known as the \u00abSugar Islands\u00bb. Sugar mills, washing houses and boilers, customs houses, defensive castles and beautiful manor houses, in the style of small palaces were built, with farmhouses in the style of the areas where the colonists came from recreated for the new inhabitants. The white and refined sugars, honeys, second honeys, alfe\u00f1iques (long or twisted confection made from sugar cane and other ingredients) and honey soups produced from the cane built a sweet bridge, with solid pillars nailed deep into the Atlantic Ocean, from the Canary Islands to the European continent, with connections to Africa and the Americas.<\/p>\n<p data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.08px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\">At the end of the 19th century, and most probably with the arrival of the submarine telegraph cable on the Los Silos coast in 1883, which was laid by a British telegraph company, sugar cane cultivation, first introduced to Daute (an area in the northwest of Tenerife), by the visionary Alonso de Lugo to the islands at the end of the 15th century, reappeared.<\/p>\n<p data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.08px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\">The Lathbury Company (L&amp;C\u00ba) planted sugar cane on the Daute Estate, the same lands where sugar cane had been originally grown 400 years before. They built the sugar mill that can be seen today on the Los Silos coast, which is one of the few 19th century buildings constructed by the British company still standing in the Canary Islands today.<\/p>\n<p data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.08px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\">The building boasts the wooden beams with the company stamp and the destination of \u201cDante\u201d which was used in British ports because the fourteenth century poet was much better known than<\/p>\n<p data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.08px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\">Daute.\u200b<\/p>\n<p data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.08px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\">We now find ourselves in the area with the only existing sugar mill in Tenerife and in the very same place where sugar cane was reintroduced to where it was first planted after the conquest of Tenerife by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Lugo towards the end of the fifteenth century. Sugar cane production was slowly replaced in the 16 th century by vineyards for wine production and then by tomato production. Lathbury &amp; Co planted sugar cane again in the 19th century until it was supplanted by banana plantations in the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.08px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Inter; font-weight: 200;\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Inter\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"200\">Sugar cane had been grown all over this area since the 1500s, and started to be replaced for different crops when it was impossible to compete with the Caribean plantations. The small strongholds left and the Lathbury Company recoveries remained until the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-fusion-600 wp-image-5522\" src=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-600x363.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-600x363.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27600%27%20height%3D%27363%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20600%20363%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27600%27%20height%3D%27363%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-200x121.png 200w, https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-02-300x182.png 300w, 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{.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-3{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-3 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-3{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-3 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-right : 20px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-left : 20px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p style=\"text-align: center; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Abril Fatface'; font-weight: 400; font-size: 40px; line-height: 48px; letter-spacing: 0px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Abril Fatface\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"400\">SUGAR MILLS IN THE AREA<\/p>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"542\" title=\"web version ordenador INGLES-01\" src=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-01.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/canayron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/web-version-ordenador-INGLES-01-600x542.png\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-5529\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271227%27%20height%3D%271108%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201227%201108%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271227%27%20height%3D%271108%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" 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