Gran-canaria events http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/events.html http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/img/gran-canaria-tourism.png http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com Gran-canaria events <p>Cenobio de Valeron, is one of the largest pre-Hispanic granary in Gran Canaria and Canary Islands. This site has been closed for more then two years and now, after renovation, it's ready to be open again to the public. </p> <p>Further Information: </p><p><a href="http://www.cenobiodevaleron.com" title="Cenobio de Valeron Official Website" class="orange">cenobiodevaleron.com</a></p> <p>Phone: +34 618 607 896</p> <p>Fax: +34 928 895 451</p> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/cenobio-de-valeron-opening.html <p>Cabalgata de los Reyes is, at its origins, a holiday with religious implications. Yet, what is most spectacular in the manifestations related to this event which, for that matter, is held on <strong>January the 5th</strong>, has slid to a more secular side. Thus, the highlight of the holiday refers to the parading of three people in the guise of three kings who share sweets to the children attending the event.</p> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/three-holy-kings.html <p>Though the name of the Festival of Almond Blossom is not as resonant as other events in Gran Canaria, this festival features a more traditional and <strong>agrarian profile</strong>. It is held at the <strong>beginning of February</strong>, and it is a symbol of the joy with which the locals meet the coming of spring. The central part of Gran Canaria excels in manifestations, the mainstream highlights of which refer to <strong>folk performances</strong> and food and wine tasting. Surprisingly, this is an increasingly popular event in Gran Canaria, that is, popular with tourists.</p> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/festival-of-almond-blossom.html <p>The Las Palmas Carnival is one of the most spectacular events to be held each year in <a href="http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-attractions/top-destinations/las-palmas-de-gran-canaria.html" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas</a>, being defined as an array of <strong>parades, parties</strong> and performances aiming, after three weeks of unceasing efforts, to the crowning of the so-called <strong>Drag Queen</strong>. The event starts in <strong>mid February</strong> and ends in mid March. It is a moment of great festal spirit and excitement not only for locals, but for tourists too. One notable facet of this carnival concerns its references to the gay community.</p> <p>For further details on the event, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>Las Palmas Carnival</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.lpacarnaval.com/" title="www.lpacarnaval.com">www.lpacarnaval.com</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/las-palmas-carnival.html <p><a href="http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-attractions/top-destinations/maspalomas.html" title="Maspalomas">Maspalomas</a> is, as some might opine, the ultimate tourist destination in Gran Canaria. The heartiness of the presence of Maspalomas on the tourist map of Gran Canaria is furthermore enhanced by the Maspalomas Carnival, a one-week event which puts even more color and effervescence to the already vivid profile of the resort. Roughly speaking, the manifestations occasioned by this local carnival do not differ greatly from what other Spanish carnivals put forward, implying both seemingly endless <strong>parties and performances</strong> and the crowning of a <strong>carnival queen</strong>. The carnival does not have a fixed date, since more or less directly it depends of the Easter, but it usually seizes locals with joy between <strong>late February</strong> and early March.</p> <p>For further details on the event, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>Maspalomas Carnival</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://turismo.maspalomas.com/carnaval_en.shtml" title="turismo.maspalomas.com">turismo.maspalomas.com</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/maspalomas-carnival.html <p>The Las Palmas International Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is the most important event covering the topic of this form of art to be held in Gran Canaria. It is hosted, as the name suggests, in <a href="http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-attractions/top-destinations/las-palmas-de-gran-canaria.html" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas</a>, and it tops the bill of the local agenda in <strong>mid March</strong>. It results in the awarding of several trophies for sundry categories.</p> <p>For further details on the event, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>Las Palmas International Film Festival</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.festivalcinelaspalmas.com/" title="www.festivalcinelaspalmas.com">www.festivalcinelaspalmas.com</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/las-palmas-international-film-festival.html <p>The Canary Islands Rally is one of the most awaited sports events in Gran Canaria. It is held each year in <strong>late April</strong>, and the route crosses several municipalities, amounting to some <strong>800 kilometers</strong>. The event musters up huge crowds of people, locals and tourists, participants and spectators alike.</p> <p>For further details on the event, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>Canary Islands Rally</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.rallyislascanarias.com/" title="www.rallyislascanarias.com">www.rallyislascanarias.com</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/canary-islands-rally.html <p>The Maspalomas Gay Pride saw its first edition in 2002, and it has managed to become a genuine reference mark of the effervescent agenda of <a href="http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-attractions/top-destinations/maspalomas.html" title="Maspalomas">Maspalomas</a>. The event is, in fact, a crowning of the heights gay tourism has conquered in south Gran Canaria. It is held each year in the <strong>second week of May</strong>, and its specific target consists of people with less conventional sexual views: gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals.</p> <p>For further details on the event, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>Maspalomas Gay Pride</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.gaypridemaspalomas.com/" title="www.gaypridemaspalomas.com">www.gaypridemaspalomas.com</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/maspalomas-gay-pride.html <p>The fiesta of Saint John (San Juan in Spanish) is held each year on the night of 23rd to <strong>24th of June</strong>. A fair range of rituals and festivities are officiated on this night, but the event is also complemented by <strong>open-air concerts</strong>, sports events and theater performances. The array of manifestations is overtopped by <strong>firework shows</strong> and spectacular bonfires. The event is both religiously and historically significant.</p> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/saint-john-night.html <p>Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz and Mas Heineken is one of the most important music events in Gran Canaria and in the entire archipelago, for that matter. Artists throughout the world participate to this festival which occasions <strong>performances</strong> held in each big city, though the highlights of the event are to be spotted in <a href="http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-attractions/top-destinations/las-palmas-de-gran-canaria.html" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas</a>. The festival is held each year at the beginning of <strong>July</strong>, and it lasts about three weeks.</p> <p>For further details on the event, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>International Jazz Festival (Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz and Mas Heineken)</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.canariasjazz.com/" title="www.canariasjazz.com">www.canariasjazz.com</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/international-jazz-festival.html <p><strong>Pozo Izquierdo</strong> in Santa Lucia de Tirajana is where the best windsurfers in the world come each year in the <strong>first half of July</strong> in view of attending to one of the final stages of World Windsurfing Pro Tour. Wave, slalom and freestyle contests are occasioned by this event which, by its being held in Gran Canaria, substantiates the legitimacy of why Gran Canaria has been dubbed the Hawaii of the Atlantic.</p> <p>For further details on the event, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>Gran Canaria PWA Gran Prix</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.pwaworldtour.com/index.php?id=38&#38;tx_pwaevent_pi1[showUid]=165&#38;cHash=4c9742d821" title="www.pwaworldtour.com">www.pwaworldtour.com</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/gran-canaria-pwa-gran-prix.html <p>Held each year on <strong>July the 16th</strong> in Puerto de la Luz in <a href="http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-attractions/top-destinations/las-palmas-de-gran-canaria.html" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas</a>, this fiesta is celebrated by festivities in the honor of Nuestra Senora del Carmen. The core of the event refers to a statue of the Virgin being paraded on the streets embellished with <strong>flower decorations</strong>. People celebrate until late at night, but the bottom line is this holiday occasions the coming of <strong>thousands of locals and tourists</strong> alike who want to participate to the manifestations.</p> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/fiesta-de-nuestra-senora-del-carmen.html <p>Festival Internacional de Folklore, as it is referred to in Spanish, is held in the latter half of July, and it stands as a highly significant cultural event. Artists from Greece, Palestine, Slovakia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Korea, Senegal and Peru, for instance, together with artists from the local scene feature all that is specific for their native countries, beginning with traditional dances and costumes and ending with customs and music. The festival is held each year in the city of Ingenio.</p> <p>For further details on the event, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>International Folklore Festival (Festival Internacional de Folklore)</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.folkloredeingenio.com/" title="www.folkloredeingenio.com">www.folkloredeingenio.com</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/international-folklore-festival.html <p>Water Fight fiesta is held in Telde, more precisely in <strong>Lomo Magullo</strong>. It is a traditional holiday dating back to the 1970s. Thousands of tourists come in Gran Canaria precisely in view of attending to <strong>Traida de Agua</strong>, as locals refer to the event. The Water Fight is held each year on <strong>August the 9th</strong>. Besides the water fight as such, the event is complemented by firework shows and parades.</p> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/water-fight.html <p>Held on <strong>September the 18th</strong> and the 19th, Fiesta del Pino is a height of religious holidays and manifestations in Gran Canaria. It is held locally, in <strong>Teror</strong>, but its fame has gone beyond the confines of this small municipality in Gran Canaria. Thus, the fiesta manages to muster up the believers throughout the Canary Islands who come here in hundreds seized with the need to manifest their adoration of the Virgin of Pino. Fiesta del Pino is basically a religious event, though <strong>secular performances</strong> are not absent: firework shows, sports and music performances.</p> <p>For further details on the festival, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>Fiesta del Pino</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.teror.es/fiesta_pino.php" title="www.teror.es">www.teror.es</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/fiesta-del-pino.html <p>Spanish people throughout the world celebrate the so-called Dia de la Hispanidad on <strong>October the 12th</strong>. Celebrating the National Day is a matter of course in the Canary Islands, Gran Canaria included. The entire island is seized with festal spirit manifested through a wide range of <strong>traditional happenings</strong>: parties, performances, open-air entertainment, firework shows.</p> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/national-day.html <p>The <strong>Santa Catalina Park</strong> in <a href="http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-attractions/top-destinations/las-palmas-de-gran-canaria.html" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas</a> hosts each year the festival organized by WOMAD. The party thrown only 10 minutes from <strong>Playa de Las Canteras</strong> attracts thousands of visitors each year, people who want to attend to the concerts where worldwide famous artists are invited. The festival does not have a fixed date, though <strong>mid November</strong> is when it is most likely to be held each year.</p> <p>For further details on the festival, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>WOMAD</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.womad.org/" title="www.womad.org">www.womad.org</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/womad.html <p>The Atlantic Rally for Cruises has managed to become a reference mark on the worldwide agenda of sailing events. It is, in fact, an event to which plenty of possible participants aspire, and the distance to be covered by the competing vessels is delineated by <a href="http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-attractions/top-destinations/las-palmas-de-gran-canaria.html" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a> and the <strong>Caribbean island</strong> of Santa Lucia. The contest is usually held in the latter half of November, and boasts usually need more than 2 weeks to finish the route.</p> <p>For further details on the festival, please use the following information:</p> <dl> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd>Atlantic Rally for Cruises</dd> <dt>Website:</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.worldcruising.com/arc/" title="www.worldcruising.com">www.worldcruising.com</a></dd> </dl> http://www.gran-canaria-tourism.com/gran-canaria-events/atlantic-rally-for-cruises.html