• Fiestas del Carmen Arguineguín between 12-21 July 2024.
• Fiestas del Carmen Playa de Mogán between 16 July-4 August 2024.
• Romería, the pilgrimage providing in Arguineguín can be on Saturday, 13 July 2024.
The Fiestas del Carmen program contains non secular, conventional, cultural, and festive occasions for everybody. Aquatics, sports activities, youth and kids’s actions, conventional video games, concert events, even the now conventional “reducing of the department” a ritual providing courting again to pre-Christian conquest, and naturally the primary “Romería” pilgrimage processions; all topped off by the annual spotlight of maritime processions between Arguineguín and Puerto de Mogán.
On Tuesday, the sixteenth the Day of Our Woman of Carmen is widely known, a financial institution vacation within the municipality of Mogán.
[box] “La Virgen del Carmen” is the patron saint of sailors, and her feast day is noticed in the primary Mogán fishing cities of Arguineguín and Puerto de Mogán.
The maritime procession and spiritual service shut the annual celebrations which embrace quite a lot of occasions, with one of many highlights being the “Bajada de la Rama” (the reducing of the department) a practice distinctive to the islands, embodied most fervently within the north west of Gran Canaria’s eponymous annual La Rama fiestas in Agaete every August, however these days prevalent in so many different island fiestas in coastal communities, whereby a tree department is carried by way of the streets, to the sound of music and revelry, earlier than being lowered into the ocean as a prayer for autumn rains and fertility.
There can be non secular ceremonies and a terrestrial “Romería” pilgrimage procession, the place sailors, wearing white, carry the revered statue of the virgin as much as Marañuelas Seashore, to hope a rosary.
The foremost occasion of the celebrations, and probably the most well-known, is the annual maritime procession, when the statue of Our Woman The Virgin is taken from the port of Arguineguín to the port of Mogán adopted by an enormous array of fishing boats and leisure craft, with a return journey being accomplished often on the next Sunday. On that day, sailors and fishermen beautify their boats, with a purpose to have fun their patron to the rhythm of the music bands, the noise of the motors of the boats, and the sound of individuals having fun with themselves.
Essentially the most picturesque a part of this procession is when the 2 statues meet on arrival on the fishing port of Mogán. Afterward, there’s a procession as much as the city sq., the place there’s dancing to the stay brass band, and later the procession returns to their place to begin. The next week the fiestas proceed in Playa de Mogán, additionally in honour of Nuestra Señora del Carmen, following the identical maritime route however within the different route, from Puerto de Mogán to Arguineguín.[/box]
Program this weekend:
Friday 12 July:
at 19:00 Tú mejor puesta de sol, ‘Your greatest sundown’, guided outside bodily exercise lessons on El Perchel seashore in addition to seashore volleyball, boxing and Muay Thai exhibition
at 21:00 The fifth version of the Antoñito Segura Memorial at Plaza Las Marañuelas
at 23:30 “Mujeres liberadas” live performance by Mara Pérez and Dj Tony Bob at Plaza del Mercadillo.
at 23:30 80′ and 90′ Social gathering with Djs Promaster and Cholo on Calle José Manuel Santana – Chiringos de música.Saturday 13 July:
at 18:00 Romería, the Pilgrimage-Providing of the Virgin of Carmen in Arguineguín with 22 carts from calle Manuel Álamo Suárez (Carpintero de Ribera) to Plaza Pérez Galdós Sq., the place a Taifa Dance will then happen with the events La Polvajera, El Pajullo and La Parranda del Cura.
at 20:00 Romero mass at Plaza del mercadillo.
at 23:30 Verbena, festive get together with Grupo Area and Dj Kevin at Plaza del Mercadillo.
at 23:30 Djs Sammyto and Nichel B. on Calle José Manuel Santana – Chiringos de música.Sunday 14 July:
at 14:00 Foam Social gathering with Armonía Present and Dj Promaster at Plaza del Mercadillo.
at 18:15 Soccer match between married and singles on Playa El Perchel ***new beginning time due to Eurocup closing**
There can be an enormous display screen to observe the Remaining within the Chiringuitos space on Calle José Manuel Santana. DJ at 19:00 and at 20:00 RemainingMonday 15 July:
17:00-20:00 Enjoyable play space for youths at Plaza Pérez Galdós
at 22:00 Tutto Durán live performance at Plaza del Mercadillo.
at 00:00 firework spectacle at Playa de Las Marañuelas.
at 00:15 Verbena, festive get together with Paco Guedes and Dj Marret at Plaza del Mercadillo.
at 00:15 Latin Music Night time with Djs Juanjo and Cristian Krown on Calle José Manuel Santana – Chiringos de músicaTuesday 16 July: Feast Day/Día de Nuestra Señora del Carmen and a neighborhood financial institution vacation within the municipality
at 19:00 Eucharist, adopted by land procesión to playa de Las MarañuelasFriday 19 July:
at 20:00 Fashionable barbeque enlivened by Yoni and Aya at Plaza de Las Marañuelas.
at 23:30 Verbena, a festive get together with Leyenda Joven and Ritmo Bakano at Plaza del Mercadillo.
at 23:30 Djs Samu Gonzáles and Jousep on Calle José Manuel Santana – Chiringos de músicaSaturday 20 July:
at 10:00 Canarian Podenco (dogbreed) exhibition within the tent at Plaza Pérez Galdós.
at 19:00 ‘Bajada de la Rama’, reducing the department procession from Plaza de Pino Seco with La Charanga de La Aldea and La Charanga Archipiélago.
at 22:00 Verbena, a festive get together with Nueva Imagen and their Bandurria and Dúo Purpurina at Plaza de Las Marañuelas.
at 22:00 Djs Aitor Cruz, Supersonikka and Adrián Professional on Calle José Manuel Santana – Chiringos de música
at 23:00 Verbena, a festive get together with Star Music orchestra, Aguaje music group and Dj Fano at Plaza del MercadilloSunday 21 July:
at 09:00 Eucaristía in Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen, adopted by a maritime procession with banda La Pasión de La Aldea
