Isleña Printing House

Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Category: Memory · Subcategory: Sites of memory · Year: 1837

La Isleña is one of the most important and oldest printing houses the city has had throughout its history, and it still operates today under that name.

It was founded in 1837 by Pedro Mariano Ramírez Atenza, with the help of a German technician in the field, Juan Coppe. In its workshops, in 1848, the first lithographic press in the Canary Islands was installed.

It was located on Calle del Sol, now Doctor Allart, and was considered for a long time as one of the most important printing houses in the Archipelago. Many of the city’s historic publications were edited here. From 1847 it published the first bibliographic collection of the Islands under the name "Biblioteca Canaria" (Canarian Library), which included authors such as Núñez de la Peña, Abreu Galindo, Pedro Agustín del Castillo, Alonso de Espinosa, José de Sosa, Berthelot, Viana y Viera, and Clavijo.

In 1974 the printing house was acquired by Genaro Marrero, who kept its historic name, although he had to move its premises to the La Cuesta neighbourhood in La Laguna for logistical reasons.

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