Stories of La Palma

About Stories of La Palma

The Isla Bonita podcast: pirates, volcanoes and legends, verified down to the footnote. What is fact comes with its source; what is legend is told as legend.

Publisher

La Palma Go

Category

history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jun 2026

Latest episode

9 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Nov 2026

   35. The Tsunami That Never Came

   In 2001 a model put waves of up to 25 m off Florida from a Cumbre Vieja collapse. What the small print said, how the wave shrank and what 2021 showed. The full story, with sources: https://lapalmago.com/en/historias/tsunami-cumbre-vieja/

2. 

   5 Nov 2026

   34. Those Who Came Back Rich… and Those Who Didn't

   Talcum powder is documented in the Santa Cruz de La Palma carnival from 1867; the parody of the landing dates from the 1920s. What dates from 1981 is that the two came together. The full story, with sources: https://lapalmago.com/en/historias/los-indianos-carnaval/

3. 

   5 Nov 2026

   33. The Forest That Reinvented Itself

   The Los Tilos laurel forest is no intact Tertiary fossil: it is a reassembled forest that makes water out of fog. And before it was a reserve, it was for centuries a quarry for plant stakes. The full story, with sources: https://lapalmago.com/en/historias/laurisilva-los-tilos/

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