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Gran Canaria - Festivities and Traditions |
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 Gran Canaria - Festivities and Traditions
A mix of cultures and traditions Gran Canaria is a island where you can always have fun in which joy and folclore are in the air all the year.
● Following a chronological order the first manifestations that we meet is the most famous Carnival between February and March. Its a wonderful show nothing less than Great Brazilian Carnival. The fun goes on for weeks (3 or 4) and are concentrated essentially in the locality of the Parque de Saint Catalina.
● the first Sunday of May is celebrated the Fiesta de Saint Josè. The local population lives with handicraft and fairs of cattles showing the visitors thier tradition and the most various cultural ideas.
● In spring, in the month of June, the festivity of the Saint Patron of the city, Saint Juan ( 23rd of the month ). In this occasion numerous cultural events are organized and pyrotechnicians fires, and Playa de las Canteras becomes scene of shows and concerts.
● Always during the month of june, Las Palmas is covered of colors in occasion of Corpus Christi. In that day (it doesn’t have a fixed date) in the characteristic narrow lanes of the old city are created and exposed spectacular carpets of flowers creating an evocative atmosphere.
● the last Sunday of July the Fiesta of the Agua is celebrated. This recurrence goes back to 19th century and came up like a moment of prayer to ask God to protect the island from epidemics. The period is the one when the fruits are collected from the trees after a difficult seeding period. The tradition wants that prays are made.
● With the arrival of the summer, the first of August (moment clou is the 4 of the month), you can be assist to the Fiesta de Rama, to Agaete. This festivity plants its roots in an ancient legend that narrates the folkloristic tribali dances of the rain. In the time the ritual obviously has been modified: nowadays people walk down the street with branches of pine and eucalyptus tree accompanied from music of the local band. At the end of the procession everyone starts slapping the branches on the water to simulate the sound of the rain.
● In september (the 7 and the 8 of the month) the Fiesta is celebrated de the Virgen of the Pine. The festivity goes back to the XVI century. It takes place in the town locality of Teror and celebrates the Holy Virgin saint of the island. The legends says that in 1481 above a pine in front of shepherds the Holy Virgin appears. An event that attracts curious pilgrims and devout visitors.
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