Abstract
Some manuscripts from the 14th and 16th centuries pointed out the presence of several stone statues of a naked man in some of the Canary Islands. Thus far, it has not been possible to confirm the origin of these statues, nor whether they represented a man or a god. Several hypotheses are analysed in this article, but it is considered that the most probable is that these statues were those of Hercules, carrying in his hand the golden apples stolen from the Garden of the Hesperides. Their establishment in the Canary Islands would go back to the time of the first Roman emperors, in particular the Emperor Hadrian
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