Tourist Festival Maspalomas is back to bid farewell to summer in style! 🌴🎶

The Department of Tourism of San Bartolomé de Tirajana invites you to enjoy the second edition of Tourifest, a unique event that commemorates World Tourism Day under the theme “Tourism and Peace”.

This Friday and Saturday, down by the beach, at Anexo II in Playa del Inglés, there are open-air concerts with artists such as Efecto Pasillo, Bamboleo, Aseres, Salvapantallas and many more.

You can also enjoy a gastronomic area with Canarian and international flavours and there will also be a Yoga MasterClass in front of the sea, promoting peace and coexistence.

“A festival designed for everyone: tourists, residents, and families, in the unbeatable setting of our Playa del Inglés.
Don’t miss this great closing of summer!”

FRIDAY:
at 16:00 Instrumental Show – at 18:00 Aseres – 19:30 DJ Tony Bob – at 21:00 Aduen Amaya 🟋 Bamboleo – at 22:30 DJ Esteban Ojeda – 00:00 DJ Kike Rodríguez

SATURDAY:
at 12:00 Yoga Masterglass – 13:30 DJ Alexis Miranda – 15:30 Kenneth – 16:30 DJ Tony Bob – at 19:00 Efecto Pasillo – at 20:30 DJ Yunes – at 22:30 Los Salvapantallas – at 00:00 DJ Jia Miles 

The 7th edition of Animundo, Gran Canaria’s biggest fair for animal lovers takes place this Saturday and Sunday, 28-29 September 2024 at INFECAR in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

The fair features a program of talks (Spanish language), workshops, and an adoption catwalk (from Albergue de Bañaderos, the island’s main pound). In addition, attendees will find products and services for the responsible care of companion animals.

Opening hours on both days are from 10:30 to 20:00.
Entry tickets are also available online ANIMUNDO (consigue tu entrada): Adults €1.50 (over 12 yrs)
Free entry: children under 12 years of age, accredited unemployed, accredited pensioners and retirees, and accredited disabled people.

Street market by the businesses of the Mesa y López area in the capital from Thursday to Saturday. The market is enlivened by music and children’s activities at the Rambla Central.

Opening hours:
Thursday 12:00 to 21:30
Friday & Saturday 10:00 to 21:30.

The Association of Municipalities of the North of Gran Canaria and Tourism of Gran Canaria present, on the occasion of International Tourism Day, a wide program of activities that will have its main day on Friday, 27 September in Villa de Moya.

Between 10:00-14:00 on Calle Miguel Hernández you can enjoy a fair, musical performances, workshops, and a presentation of awards and distinctions to highlight the main tourist attributes of the eleven municipalities of the Commonwealth.

The coast of the Villa de Moya is preparing to host the 11th Costa Norte festival this Saturday and Sunday. Two days full of activities in a unique setting within the municipality enjoying activities and good music. This is how the Villa de Moya becomes the epicenter of the gazes of the north of Gran Canaria with the aim of saying goodbye to summer in style.

The Costa Norte Festival has become a benchmark in the north of Gran Canaria. It is a festival that in its eleventh edition we can already say is consolidated although this year it has undergone some modifications with the appearance of the sinkhole that has forced to suspend children’s activities and workshops, in addition to the traditional Craft and Commercial Fair. 

Highlights

On Saturday: 09:00-14:00 Beach clean, 12:00-14:00 Holi and Foam Party with DJ Sammyto. Concerts: 18:00 Tabaiba, 19:45 Fran Baraja, 21:30 La Regadera, at 23:15 Serial Killerz

On Sunday: 13:00-14:00 Foam Party. Concerts: 16:00 Supersonikka, 17:00 Los Salvapantallas, 18:45 Aseres

Valleseco, the Gran Canaria municipality famous for its apples and cider, celebrates the festival of La Encarnación and La Manzana, a celebration of the municipality, its people, and its customs.

On the first Sunday of October, this year on October 6, the other great celebration of the municipality takes place in honour of Our Lady of the Incarnation. It is also the Apple Festival to which the neighbours come on pilgrimage with their carts from all the surrounding neighbourhoods dressed in their typical Canarian traditional costumes to offer to “the Virgin”  produce of the land on the Saturday before the main day.

In 2011, this festival was declared a Festival of Regional Tourist Interest by the Government of the Canary Islands, hence, a list of activities has been devised to promote this municipality of the island’s medians every year.

The apple is the quintessential symbol of Valleseco. The French or Canadian pippin stands out for its quality and peculiar sweet and sour flavor.

It was introduced back in 1858 by the then-mayor, who decided to recover the vacant lands of the municipality with fruit trees. Currently, the Valleseco apple serves as the basis for the production of Gran Valle Cider. In addition, it gives its name to a festival, that of the Apple, in which, among other events, a massive pilgrimage is celebrated on the eve of the main festival; a craft fair in which various artisans from the municipality exhibit and show their work to the public, ranging from carpenters, ceramists, leather and stone craftsmen, basket makers to weavers, traditional costume tailor or woodcarver; a competition of dishes made with apples and tastings of cider and other products related to this fruit.

Among the events that have the most tradition within these festivals due to their prestige and wide participation, is the Abenechara Folkloric Meeting, which brings together Canarian groups from all the islands and from outside the archipelago.

 This Weekend:

Sunday 29 September: in Área Recreativa de La Laguna
From 10:15 Livestock fair with exhibitions, donkey rides and much more
11:30 Horse race
14:00-16:00
at 10:30 Children’s workshops.

Still to come:
Saturday 5 October:
at 18:30  The 50th Anniversary of the Romería, pilgrimage offering (in its current form)
at 22:30 Zumba exhibition
at 23:00 Verbena, a festive street party with the bands Larga and Mecanika by Tamarindos
at 00:00 Fireworks spectacle

Sunday 6 October:
at 10:00 Artisan Craft Stalls in the Plaza Municipal. There will also be a stall to sell apples and cider from 10:30
at 12:00 Religious Function in Honour of Our Lady of the Incarnation, followed by a procession through the streets.
at 14:00  Popular Food: “Fabada” in the Plaza Municipal. Price: €3
at 14:00 Concerts in the Plaza Municipal: Las Chicas Melodía, Kalima Limón and Los Lola.
at 16:00 Children’s Fiesta with bouncy castles in the surrounding area of Plaza Municipal.
at 20:00 Night of humour with Kike Perez in the Plaza Municipal.

The historic centre of Agüimes continues to celebrate, as every year at this time, its patron saint festivities in honour of the Virgen del Rosario, co-patron saint and perpetual representative of the municipality.

This weekend, gofio will once again be the main ingredient. The 47th edition of the Traída del Gofio y el Agua, one of the most popular events of this celebration will bring together residents and visitors on the route that links the historic centre of the town with the Lolita and Ananías mills. The Traída will once again be, as it was conceived almost five decades ago, a tribute to the agricultural tradition of Agüimes, emulating the old custom of families taking their own millet to be ground and thus turning it into gofio, the most unique and identifying food of the Canary Islands.
The popular procession on Saturday, dressed in traditional clothing and accompanied by the music band, will begin to gather at the mills from 16:30, to begin the short walk at 19:00 . Unlike in the past, when the custom was a necessity of the first order, the Traída is today a celebration as fun as it is mischievous, in which gofio is sprinkled everywhere. Although it is difficult to come out unscathed, the organisation asks for the collaboration of the attendees in order not to throw gofio at the police officers, at the spectators watching the parade from outside or in the eyes of the other participants.

This weekend:

Friday 27 September:
At 21:00 Election Gala of Romero and Romera of the festivities at Plaza Ntra. Sra. del Rosario 

Saturday 28 September:
From 16:30 Music starts by the Ananías and Lolita mill
At 19:00 Traída del Gofio y del Agua.
The millo, now made into gofio, will now return to the town (last weekend taken to the mill) with the celebration of the 47th edition of the Traída del Gofio y del Agua. Hundreds of people will once again gather to make the journey from the Lolita and Ananías mills to the historic centre. Due to its uniqueness, the Traída is always the most eagerly awaited event of these festivities, declared of National Tourist Interest.
At 22:00 A festive street party at Plaza del Rosario enlivened by Star Music, Dj Promaster and La Mekánica By Tamarindos

Sunday 29 September:
At 12:00 Children’s play area at Plaza del Rosario
At 17:00 Tropical Salsa Party at the Plaza del Rosario.
salsa, bachata and kizomba workshops 17:00-19:00 and Social SBK with DJ 19:45-22:00 

The festivities in honour of San Miguel Arcángel, patron saint of the highest population centre of Temisas in the municipality of Agüimes are celebrated until this Sunday.

“Temisas is a small rural hamlet, surrounded by fields and terraces full of Canarian palm trees and lined with ancient olive groves. Famous for the oldest olive press in the Canary Islands and a small astronomical observatory.”

Friday 27 September:
at 21:00, A hi-fi stopover in the square (well reheased karaoke)
at 23:00 the singers Besay Ojeda and Diego Rodríguez will perform.

Saturday 28 September:
at 20:00 a performance by El Mariachi and an acrobatics show offered by Cirque Zen in the square.
at 23:00 D’ Music and DJ Antonio Boada will will be the stars of the party in the park.

Sunday 29 September:
at 09:00 Diana Floreada, a procession of papahuevos, accompanied by the neighbours, will tour the streets of the town to the rhythm of the Banda Guiniguada
at 10:00 Livestock Fair fair will be held in the vicinity of the teleclub
at 12:00 Eucharist, followed by a procession at 13:15
at 14:30 a popular barbecue will be held in Los Olivos park.
at 15:30 the festivities will end in the same space with a performance by the singer Yeray Socorro.

The 43rd Villa de Teror Rally will take place this Friday and Saturday with massive participation of teams, in total 122 registrations, 100 in the Speed ​​modality and 22 in Regularity. The rally will also conclude the patron saint festivities of Gran Canaria, Virgen del Pino in Teror. 

The Aterura Team has set up the route by programming traditional sections of the Teror event and recovering some mythical areas that had been in disuse for several years, taking into account the positive results obtained in previous editions.

In this 43rd Villa de Teror Rally, 9 Timed Sections will be contested, totaling approximately 87 kilometers of competition.

The special stages, located in the usual area of ​​the Rally and repeated three times each, will be: Los Castillos-Zumacal with 7.54 km, Teror-San Isidro with 7.42 km and Artenara-Cruz de Tejeda with 14.10 km. All these distances are approximate pending future confirmation, which, however, will not entail major variations.

“It’s good to remember that when there is a rally going on it also mean road closures during the stages.”

On Friday: 14:30-19:30 Technical verifications at Plaza Nuestra Senora del Pino  and at 20:30 Ceremonial start from the Plaza
On Saturday: The Rally Day

Valsequillo de Gran Canaria, famous for their cheese and strawberries, continues celebrating their Patron Saint ‘Festivities and Fair of San Miguel Arcángel, (St Michael the Archangel) until 6 October 2024.

This weekend:

Friday 27 September:
at 21:30 Fiesta Guateque Años 60 at Plaza Tifaritti. Dress code 60′

Saturday 28 September: Vispera de San Miguel
at 21:00 concert by Maestro Florido with a Son de la Isla group at Plaza de San Miguel to pre-heat the athmosphere for the main event…
00:00 XXXVIII Suelta del Perro Maldito, the 38th edition of the Street theatre performance, the largest in the Canary Islands, with more than 10,000 attendees expected. Around 100 people are taking part in this production, which this year will focus on mental health, inspired by the seven deadly sins.
A night full of terror and reflection under the artistic direction of Kilian Betancor.
at 01:00 Fireworks show display
at 01:30 A festive Street party at Plaza Tifaritti with Orquestra Armonía Show and Aseres.

Sunday 29 September: Main Festive Day
at 05:00 Diana floreada, a lively street procession via the streets of the village.
from 08:00 Livestock Fair on the fairgrounds
at 12:00 Civil-religious procession with the image of San Miguel
at 13:00 Livestock parade in the pedestrian area in front of the statue
at 18:00 Horse race on the main road GC-41
20:00 Show ‘Demoninación de Origen’ at Plaza Tifaritti

• Friday is always market day in Playa de Mogán in the morning. This popular market is in one of the prettiest fishing harbour towns on Gran Canaria, very popular with tourists.

• On Saturday, the Maspalomas market offers all kinds of textiles, Objet d‘art and other articles, located now in a new venue at Parque Europeo in Playa del Inglés, while the municipal market is being re-built. It is one of the markets most enjoyed among visitors along with Friday’s in Playa de Mogán;
El Mercadillo de Maspalomas is on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 08:00-14:00.

• On Saturday in Arguineguín, a small second-hand market on Plaza Negra (the marketplace) in the morning 09:00-14:00 with a wide range pre-loved treasures.

• On Sunday, the “rastro” second-hand market, ****The second-hand market now takes place in the Ciudad deportiva de Maspalomas, next to football field 2 and close to Pepe Chiringo and Parque Sur de Maspalomas.

• This Sunday, the very popular biweekly Sunday farmers’ Market, ‘Mercado Agrícola y ganadero de San Fernando‘ is held in a new location
The Maspalomas Farmers’ Market will be held (from Sunday, 21 July) in the courtyard of the covered court of the Marcial Franco School, located next to the Maspalomas Municipal Stadium. The choice of this new space is temporary and provisional
 A chance to purchase fresh, locally-grown food and value-added produce directly from growers or producers —  an authentic retail experience from 08:00-13:30