{"id":3434,"date":"2011-09-23T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2011-09-23T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T20:42:50","slug":"la-isla-de-san-borondon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/la-isla-de-san-borondon\/","title":{"rendered":"La isla de San Borond\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Cuando iba al colegio, me ense\u00f1aron que las Islas Canarias eran siete: Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera y El Hierro. Sin embargo, ahora he descubierto que existe una octava misteriosa que en ocasiones es vista al oeste de La Palma El Hierro y La Gomera: San Borond\u00f3n. La existencia de esta isla errante ha sido confirmada por cientos de personas a lo largo de la historia. La tradici\u00f3n cuenta que cuando los marineros intentan alcanzar sus playas, niebla, viento y tormentas impiden el acceso a la isla, que desaparece repentinamente como si se hundiese en el oc\u00e9ano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">San Borond\u00f3n es el nombre canario en honor al santo patr\u00f3n irland\u00e9s de los viajeros, San Brendan de Cluainfort, un monje de Tralee que asegur\u00f3 haber arribado a esta isla en el a\u00f1o 512 con catorce monjes. Seg\u00fan comenzaron a celebrar una misa, la isla comenz\u00f3 a moverse (algunos estudiosos la llamaron \u201cla isla ballena&#8221;, asegurando que tan solo era una gigante criatura marina, en cuya espalda estaban). Afirmaban haber permanecido en este Jard\u00edn del Ed\u00e9n quince d\u00edas, mientras que la gente dijo que hab\u00eda pasado todo un a\u00f1o. Existen documentos que datan del siglo once escritos por marinos que aseguran haber arribado y explorado la isla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Numerosas expediciones, navegando bajo la bandera castellana fracasaron al intentar encontrar esta isla fantasma. Fue a principios del siglo XIX que el naturista irland\u00e9s Edward Harvey escuch\u00f3 hablar de la leyenda de San Borond\u00f3n, y viaj\u00f3 a las Canarias para encontrarla. Financiado por la Royal Society en su primera expedici\u00f3n a las islas, su obsesi\u00f3n con San Borond\u00f3n le hizo perder su patronazgo, e inici\u00f3 su proyecto en solitario. Pas\u00f3 varios d\u00edas en tierra desconocida en mitad del oc\u00e9ano tras una tormenta, entre el 14 y el 21 de Enero de 1865. Tenemos un informe detallado del la extra\u00f1a y fascinante fauna y flora encontradas all\u00ed. Se dijo que estaba loco, pero quiz\u00e1 era algo m\u00e1s sencillo: quiz\u00e1 estuvo realmente en la m\u00edtica isla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As\u00ed que si alguna vez visit\u00e1is las islas Canarias, caminad hasta lo m\u00e1s alto de la monta\u00f1a, mirad hacia el mar al oeste en el horizonte, y quiz\u00e1 pod\u00e1is vislumbrar esta isla legendaria mientras record\u00e1is esta rima guanche:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Resuenen tambores guanches<br \/>\ny canten las caracolas,<br \/>\nque la isla misteriosa<br \/>\nse divisa entre las olas;<br \/>\nque San Borond\u00f3n ya viene<br \/>\ndibuj\u00e1ndose en la bruma<br \/>\ncomo si fuera una reina<br \/>\ncon su cortejo de espuma&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;San Borond\u00f3n&#8221;, Cabrera\/Santamar\u00eda<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ISLA DE SAN BOROND\u00d3N\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZcalB0LZ59g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When I was at school, I was taught that the Canary Islands were seven: Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. However, now I have discovered there is an eighth misterious one which sometimes is seen to the West of La Palma, El Hierro and La Gomera: San Borond\u00f3n. The existence of this rogue island has been confirmed by thousands of people throughout history. Stories say that, whenever sailors attempted to reach its shores, mist, wind and storms denied access to the island, which suddenly vanished as if sunk into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">San Borondon is the Canary name after the Irish patron saint of travelers, St Brendan de Cluainfort, a monk from Tralee who claimed to have set foot on it in 512 with 14 monks. As they started to celebrate mass, the island started to move (some scholars named it \u201cthe whale island\u201d,\u00a0 assuring it was a gigantic sea creature, whose back they were standing on). They claimed to have stayed in this Garden of Eden for 15 days, while some people said it had been a whole year. There are documents which date from the 11<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px\">th<\/span>\u00a0century written by sailors who said to have landed and explored the island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Numerous expeditions sailing under the Castilian flag failed to find this phantom island. It was in the early 19th century that the Irish naturalist Edward Harvey heard about San Borondon&#8217;s legend, and traveled to the Canary Islands to find it. Financed by the Royal Society in his first expedition to the islands, his obsession with San Borondon made him lose its patronage, and he started a solitary project. He spent several days in an unknown territory in the middle of the ocean after a storm, between the 14th and 21st of January 1865. We have a detailed account of the strange and fascinating fauna and flora he found there. It was said he was mad, but maybe it was simpler than that: maybe he truly landed on the mythical island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So if you ever visit the Canary Islands, climb to the top of a mountain, look out to sea towards the western horizon, and maybe you will make out this legendary island as you remember this guanche rhyme:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let the Guanche drums resound<br \/>\nand the conch shells blow,<br \/>\nfor the mysterious island is appearing in the midst of the waves;<br \/>\nhere comes San Borond\u00f3n,<br \/>\nshowing up in the mist like a queen<br \/>\nwith the surf as suite&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>&#8212; \u201cSan Borond\u00f3n\u201d, Cabrera\/Santamar\u00ed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuando iba al colegio, me ense\u00f1aron que las Islas Canarias eran siete: Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera y El Hierro. Sin embargo, ahora he descubierto que existe una octava misteriosa que en ocasiones es vista al oeste de La Palma El Hierro y La Gomera: San Borond\u00f3n. La existencia de esta&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/la-isla-de-san-borondon\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5860,142],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-legend","tag-spain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}