Where Is Madonna's 'La Isla Bonita' Located in Real Life?
Madonna in a scene from her "La Isla Bonita" music video (1987). Fictional places are not exclusive to movies or shows. They're in legendary, catchy pop music, too. Since it's Madonna's birthday month, we thought it would be a great time to track down one of the Queen of Pop's most famous fictional creations, the mythical "La Isla Bonita" from her 1986 song of the same name. "Last night, I dreamt of San Pedro..." has sound-tracked many a drunken beach party for decades, and listeners worldwide have wondered where this particular San Pedro is. Because, truth be told, there really are dozens of San Pedros in the Hispanosphere, scattered everywhere from the Americas to Africa to Asia. Mother Spain alone has 75 places or so called San Pedro. Most of them, however, are not islands. Sure, there are San Pedros on islands in Spain and the Philippines, but the former is on Ibiza in the Mediterranean, where the breeze is certainly not tropical. A...
