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🔸 Friday 1 August

🔸 Saturday 2 August

Tip: San Lorenzo, Guía, and Firgas morning events benefit from milder air before it warms midday.

Tip: Swim early. After 3pm, beach breeze builds. Avoid extended sun exposure.

Tip: Seek higher shaded areas. Carry fresh fruit/snacks to soothe heat during afternoon fiestas.

🔸 Sunday 3 August

Tip: If attending the major maritime procession in Playa de Mogán, protect against sun reflection from sea and carry a cool cloth or fan.

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A wonderful time to visit this unique little population centre of San Lorenzo, in the municipality of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, as they are celebrating their Patron Saint’s festivities between 1-17 August 2025.

San Lorenzo, a lovely little village just about 15 minutes from the capital, is a tranquil place that only gets busy on Sundays with their local farmers market just next to the church. Fiestas de San Lorenzo is most famous for its fireworks show, the ‘Fuegos de San Lorenzo’  (at 1 am, 10 August), declared a Festival of Tourism Interest of the Canary Islands by the Canarian government in June 2022, a Festival of Regional Tourist Interest.

Friday 1 August:
12:00 The events will begin with the traditional raising of the flag of the Patron Saint, accompanied by the ringing of bells. papagüevos street parade with the Guiniguada band.
21:30 Pregón. The town’s “daughter,” Yazmina Pereira, will read the opening speech in the square.
This will be followed by the comedy show “25 Years: Neither Weddings nor Money” by artist Daniel Calero.

Saturday 2 August:
18:30 Romería, pilgrimage leaving from Camino Viejo de San Lorenzo (Casa Pico)
22:00 Canarian night with traditional music by Parranda La Polvajera and festive music by D’Music

Sunday 3 August:
08:00-13:30 Farmers’ market and the IV Muestra de Artesanía Tasate (artisan exhibition) at Mercado Agrícola de San Lorenzo.
12:00 Bouncy castles and workshops
21:30 XV Antonio Market and Lorenzo Suárez Memorial gala with the election of Romero and Romera Mayor, and a music show

The 4th LPA Groove Summer this Friday and Saturday in Auditorium José Antonio Ramos, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Free entry

Concerts:

Friday 1 August:
20:00 ACIZ
22:00 MOLT DOPE

Saturday 2 August:
20:00 MADRELAGUA PROJECT
22:00 POWAFUNK

“The term ‘groove’ is often used to describe a type of music that encourages movement or dancing. And that’s the aim of this initiative, held at the José Antonio Ramos Auditorium in Doramas Park (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria).”

Get ready for a great summer plan that combines good music, an outdoor atmosphere, and all the things you love at the Shopping Centre Las Arenas.

From June 27th to September 13th, the centre will be filled with rhythm with Las Arenas Music, a great plan to enjoy the summer as it deserves: free weekly live concerts, excellent food, sunsets, and the best oceanfront atmosphere. 

 Fridays: Tribute concerts with classic hits 
 Saturdays: LPA Emergente, the competition that gives voice to the most popular Canarian bands of the moment. You can vote for your favorite band here.
All concerts start at 20:00
 On the terrace floor (T1)

Friday 1 August: Marta y Los Suspensos 
Saturday 2 August: Kimera and Gekah

This Sunday, The Summer edition – live a unique experience at C. León y Castillo, 274 from 10:00 to 18:00

The English Market, ‘Mercadillo Inglés’ every first weekend of each month in the magic garden of plants and their shop of pots, trinkets, tools and fashions at the British Club (C/ León y Castillo 278) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria “La Casa de las Semillas”. 

LAS PALMAS DE G.C. | SUMMER MARKET “LUIS MOROTE” | SATURDAY 2 AUGUST

The municipality of Mogán celebrates their main annual festivities “La Virgen del Carmen“, the patron saint of sailors, and her feast day is observed in the famous little Mogán fishing-cum-tourism towns of Arguineguín and Puerto de Mogán. 

The Fiestas del Carmen program includes religious, traditional, cultural, and festive events for everyone. Aquatics, sports, youth and children’s activities, traditional games, concerts, even the now traditional “lowering of the branch” a ritual offering dating back to pre-Christian conquest, and of course the main “Romería” pilgrimage processions; all topped off by the annual highlight of maritime processions between Arguineguín and Puerto de Mogán.

Last of the events in Playa de Mogán:

Friday 1 August:
20:00 Tribute to Juan Gabriel at Plaza Dr. Pedro Betancor León
22:00 Tribute to Juan Luis Guerra by La Sabrosa orchestra at Plaza de Las Gañanías
23:00 afterward a Verbena, a lively street party with La Mekanica by Tamarindos and DJ Tony Bob in the same square

Saturday 2 August:
18:30 Baja de La Rama procession from Plaza Dr. Betancor
22:00 Verbena at the same Plaza

Sunday 3 August:
10:00 Eucharist at Plaza Dr. Pedro Betancor León, followed by maritime procession to Arguineguín
20:30 Verbena at Plaza Dr. Betancor

Every first Sunday of the summer month of August for more than seventy years, Moganeros and Moganeras have commemorated San Antonio ‘El Grande’.

The origin of this festivity dates back to a promise made by all the Mogán people to their Patron Saint, after a plague of locusts devastated their fields. The inhabitants promised, from that day on, to embellish San Antonio and to buy a new processional throne to free them from the curse. The moganeros and moganeras, true to their word, continue to fulfil their promise year after year.

MASS AND PROCESSION: Sunday, 3 August 2025
at 19:30,  the Church of San Antonio de Padua, Casco de Mogán.

NOON Canarias 2025 arrives at Faro de Maspalomas 🎶
Get ready for an unforgettable summer and autumn with free classical and modern music concerts in a unique setting: the Maspalomas Lighthouse.
From 19 July to 25 October 2025, every Saturday at 12:00, enjoy guitars, flutes, quartets, timples and much more, with top-level artists from the Canary Islands and other regions.

🕛 All concerts start at 12:00

🎼 FIRST DATES:
🔹 July 19 – Javier Infante (guitar)
🔹 July 26 – Alexander Álvarez (guitar)
🔹 August 2 – Hergo Duo (guitar and vocals)
🔹 August 9 – Ícaro Trio (flute, violin, and viola)
🔹 August 16 – Socos Duo (marimba and cello)

And so on until October 25. 15 concerts in total! 🎻🎺🎤
A midday musical offering to connect culture and landscape, with the sound of the Atlantic as a backdrop

Agaete, on the northwest of Gran Canaria are celebrating Fiestas de Nuestra Señora de las Nieves between 25 July- 23 August 2024.

One of the major symbols of identity on the island of Gran Canaria is, without doubt, la Fiesta de La Rama (4 August) in Agaete, on the north of the island. This is the main fiesta for the town, in honour of Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves (Our Lady of the Snows), which was declared a Fiesta of National Tourist Interest in 1972.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025, is also a local bank holiday in the municipality. 

“The festivities will also mean special traffic and parking restrictions in the centre of Villa and Puerto de Nieves. There will be specific parking areas set up nearby.”

Friday 1 August:
18:30 Children’s play area on Plaza de la Constitución

Saturday 2 August:
20:00  “Retreta Infantil” “Children’s Retreat” on the side of the Concepción parish church.
22:00 “Noche Joven” (Young Night) at the Plaza de la Constitución with artists: Grupo Nueva Cantera, Mario Falero, Sombra del Karibe, Pedro Afonso, Aithamy DJ

Sunday 3 August:
23:30 Verbena, a lively street party at  Plaza de la Constitución enlivened by “Estrella Latina, Bombazo Latino, and Las Ladys”

Monday, 4 August: FIESTA DE LA RAMA 🌿🌿🌿
Diana at 05:00 in the morning, a procession accompanied by the Agaete, Guayedra and Clandestina bands (from the town hall) to announce the start of the big day of the festival.
🌿 at 10:00, the ‘Bajada de La Rama’ returns to the streets with the brass Bands of Clandestina, and Agaete (from the Parish of Our Lady of La Concepción)
 La Retreta, at 22:00 will close the day of the Festivities with the Guayedra and Guiniguada Bands.
A fireworks spectacle is scheduled at 01:00.

Tuesday, 5 August FEAST DAY
09:00 Pilgrim Mass
at 10:30 Solemn eucharist in the Ermita Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves, followed by a procession towards to parish.
at 12:00, Departure from the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de La Concepción with the image of San José to meet with the image of Virgen de Las Nieves at Puente Viejo, Eucharist upon arrival.
19:30 Recitation of the Holy Rosary.
20:00 Eucharist
21:30 Verbena, a lively street party with “New Sabrosa yArmonía Show” at Plaza de la Constitución.

Wednesday, 6 August 
at 11:30 solemn eucharist in the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de La Concepción, followed by a religious procession with the image of Lady of the Snows through the streets.

The well-to-do, old colonial town of Santa Brígida are celebrating their Patron Saint’s festivities between 25 July – 3 August 2025. The main and oldest fiesta in the municipality is the ‘Fiesta in honour of Santa Brígida’, the Patron Saint of the Municipality. There is a Romería pilgrimage-offering organised for the first Saturday of August, and that tradition goes back to at least 1957. All the towns in the municipality will take part with floats decorated with typical motifs and pilgrims, people in traditional country dress, and plenty of street parties.

Friday 1 August:
21:00 Concert by Pedro Manuel Afonso and his show ‘Leyendas’ in the church square, which pays tribute to great figures of Spanish and international song — such as Camilo Sesto, Raphael, Mocedades, Roberto Carlos, José Luis Perales, Nino Bravo, among others — performing classics from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Saturday 2 August: Plaza de la Iglesia
12:00 Ringing of the bells, a tradition almost lost in the frenzy of the modern world, followed by the Foam Festival.
18:00 Traditional Ofrenda-Romería, pilgrimage offering
22:30 Verbena del Romero y Romera, a lively street parade with live music by the orchestra Ritmo Bakano, Pronova DJ, and Álvaro DJ.

Sunday 3 August:
11:00  Mass in honour of Saint Brigid, presided over by Priest Rayco Rodríguez Reyes and sung by the Parranda de San Antonio, followed by a solemn procession of the venerated image of Saint Brigid.

Patron Saint festivities of the municipality of Firgas in honour of San Roque (St. Roque) take place between 1-16 August 2025.

“This is the oldest festival in the municipality and has deep historical and cultural roots, originating when locals sought San Roque’s protection from a devastating plague.”
In Firgas, the devotion of his image is not exactly dated, but, even during the life of the convent, whose patron was S. Juan de Ortega, the neighbours already considered San Roque their true patron, therefore it is believed that devotion could date back to the initial decades of the 16th century, with the arrival of the first plagues on Gran Canaria.

Saturday, 16 August is also a local bank holiday in the municipality – Festividad de San Roque  

Highlights:

Friday 1 August:
21:00 Pregón in the church

Saturday 2 August: 
11:00 Kids Party with bouncy castles at the municipal parking lot
11:00 Domino tournament at Plaza de San Roque
20:00 XLI Tradicional ‘Traída del Palo’ from Las Canales to Plaza de San Roque accompanied by Banda Isleña and Banda Aborigen and Banda Aborigen

“The Bringing of the Pole is one of the central events of the Festivities. In 1846, the steward of the image of the Patron Saint spent two and a half silver coins on the purchase of a flag to place on the top of the pole that is still brought down from the mountain and amid the hustle and bustle of the people every August, following a centuries-old tradition.”

00:00 Night of DJs at the municipal parking lot

Santa Maria de Guía is celebrating the Patron Saint’s festivities of the Virgin between 1-17 August 2025.

The Patron Saint festivities in honour of the Virgin of Guía take place during August, with the most important date on the calendar being the 15th. The morning sees the procession, while in the afternoon it is the turn for the Battle of the Flowers. The fiestas include a good number of cultural events, the highlight of which are the passacaglias (street parades) featuring “papagüevos” (over-sized papier-mache models who are the authentic protagonists during festivities), the parade of floats, and the afore-mentioned Battle of the Flowers. Main events take place between 14-16 August.

Friday 15 August – Public Holiday in Spain: The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, Asunción de la Virgen

This weekend:

Friday 1 August: 
19:45 papagüevos parade from the church
21:00 Pregón, proclamation at Plaza Grande by six workers representing the public employees of the City Council of Guía, followed by a musical performance by Perduranza

Saturday 2 August: 
20:00 the 32nd National Folklore Festival of Gran Canaria at Plaza Grande
20:45 raising the flags in front of the church
21:00 Performances by three traditional music groups at Plaza Grande

Sunday 3 August: 
13:00 Tastings of the typical products enlivened by XXXII Folklore Festival at Plaza Grande
17:30 Bouncy castles and face painting for kids

Nights with the Taste of Telde, ‘Noches que saben a Telde’  this Friday at Plaza Doña Rafaela 🍷✨

An event that will fill San Gregorio with flavour, music, and atmosphere. From 19:00 to midnight, a gastronomic experience awaits you with tapas and pinchos made with local products, paired with island wines and live music.

🎶 From 21:30, enjoy concerts by Apolo and Savia Nueva.

La Aldea de San Nicolás celebrates this Saturday, 2 August, their agricultural market and the exhibition of crafts and accessories.

Summertime brings a new lease of life for local commerce in our municipality.

The Open Shopping Area and Plaza La Alameda will once again host this event from 10:00-14:00, which will also feature activities for children and a musical performance by El Artu & Co.