Good day August! What an superior, and in addition scorching, summer time weekend forward on Gran Canaria! It’s going to be a busy one, full of issues to go, do and see, with among the extra iconic, fashionable summer time fiestas now in full stream, together with the Fiestas de Las Nieves in Agaete with their most important day of festivities the “Fiesta de La Rama” this Sunday. There are additionally some extra localised Patron Saints’ Festivities happening across the island, like in San Lorenzo, simply outdoors the capital, and the picturesque, submit colonial mountain city of Santa Brigída, simply to call a couple of.
The final of the southern Fiestas del Carmen, for this 12 months, will centre on Playa de Mogán, in addition to the return maritime procession to Arguineguín and again once more.
Summer time days are completely beautiful on Gran Canaria, and the evenings are heat and exquisite. There are such a lot of conventional and cultural celebrations to get pleasure from across the islands this weekend, and this month, that we can not listing all of them, however listed here are simply our prime picks for the primary weekend of August 2024…
There actually are few higher occasions to go to among the most conventional cities,
than when they’re celebrating their Patron Saints’ festivities
as they’re all colourfully decked out for Fiesta!
Upcoming occasions:
9-18 August • The seventeenth “Summer time” Gran Canaria Artisan Craft Truthful – Faro de Maspalomas
11th of September August • Maspalomas Summer time Social gathering – Anexo II
10 August • LPA Groove Summer time, Parque Doramas
17-18 August • Km.0 Truthful Gran Canaria in Fontanales, Moya
25 August – 22 September • Fiesta del Pino 2024 in Teror (Patron Saint of Gran Canaria)
10-13 October • Massive Bang Classic Competition – LPA
11-13 October • The Lengthy Stroll Gran Canaria 2024
4-10 November • Winter Pleasure Maspalomas
Upcoming financial institution holidays:
Monday 5 August • Native financial institution vacation in Agaete: Feast of Our Woman of the Snows -Festividad de Nuestra Señora de las Nieves
Thursday 15 August • Public Vacation in Spain: The Feast of Assumption of the Virgin, Asunción de la Virgen
Friday 16 August • Native financial institution vacation in Firgas: Festividad de San Roque
Native financial institution vacation in Santa María de Guía: Festividad de San Roque.
Native financial institution vacation in Valsequillo: Festividad de San Roque
Saturday 24 August • Native financial institution vacation in San Bartolomé de Tirajana: Festividad de San Bartolomé, the co-patron saint of the municipality
Monday 26 August • Native financial institution vacation in Artenara: Day after the Feast of the Virgen de la Cuevita Agaete
Monday 9 September •Financial institution Vacation on Gran Canaria: The Day after the feast of the Patron Saint of Gran Canaria Our Woman of the Pine, Nuestra Señora del Pino.
(moved as a result of Feast Day falls on a Sunday this 12 months)
Tuesday 10 September •Native financial institution vacation in La Aldea de San Nicolás: Festividad del Santo Patrono San Nicolás de Tolentino
Wednesday 11 September • Native financial institution vacation in La Aldea de San Nicolás: Día del Charco
Saturday 14 September • Native financial institution vacation in Telde: Festividad del Santísimo Cristo de Telde
Monday 16 September • Native Financial institution vacation in Tejeda: Festividad de la Virgen del Socorro
Saturday 21 September • Native financial institution vacation in Vega de San Mateo: Festividad en honor al Apóstol San Mateo.
