There are three rocks in Gran Canaria standing in a spot shrouded by magic, among the island’s highest mountains.

Together, they represent the perfect combination of the natural and cultural landscape surrounding El Roque Bentayga, the spiritual axis of the island’s aboriginal world.

These three pillars mark out a landscape among the highest mountains that is tailor-made to gaze at the sky.

You’ll find that Roque Bentayga is hiding countless secrets. Tales of astral cycles, aboriginal rituals, and equinoxes, where the sun is reflected on the base of this impressive natural monument every year as it reaches the highest point in the sky.

Visiting Roque Bentayga and its surrounding area is just like plunging into a living location, where voices from the past, present and future speak together.

It’s a tiny key opening the doors to Gran Canaria’s past, to the times of an ancient society, with 300 layers of mystery laid over it.

A Sacred Place

An indigenous stronghold, El Roque Bentayga is considered by experts to be one of the most important sacred places from Gran Canaria’s aboriginal legacy and a place of vital importance for these ancient pre-Hispanic societies.

This would also explain why these ancient populations decided to use the base of this impressive spot as an almogarén or sacred place, a meeting place to keep tabs on time and welcome the sun at each new equinox.

Roque Bentayga forms part of the collection of sacred places known as Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains, recently declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This natural and cultural heritage will plunge you into a magical environment, right in the middle of a Biosphere Reserve.

It features a landscape that has barely changed for the generations who have lived here over the centuries, shrouded in a veil of mystery.

The combination of the Bentayga Mountain Range archaeology, ethnography and cultural landscape provide a great incentive to visit the three rocks, right on the cloudline where the merging ritual with Bentayga begins, where the sun and the rain meet.