Agüimes celebrates San Sebastián with music, conventional gatherings, and historic rituals between 12-26 January 2024. Among the many principal scheduled occasions, there are folkloric conferences, a livestock honest, the Caracol Gastronomic Days (the best snail dishes, historically eaten within the space) and varied common concert events together with the likes of Vocal Siete and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra stand out.
The municipality of Agüimes hosts festivities in honour of San Sebastián, a celebration that has its origins in 1487, when the island was first formally included into the Crown of Castile, by royal decree, formally inaugurating the Episcopal Lordship of Agüimes, then overseen by the catholic church and the bishopric seat of Gran Canaria. Since then, the date has been marked on the calendar because the pageant that commemorates the origin of the primary city formally recorded within the Southeast of Gran Canaria, whereas the saint went on to turn into the complete patron saint of this municipality.
537 years later, Agüimes as soon as once more remembers its founding with a program of occasions, which incorporates leisure and cultural actions for all tastes, together with folklore and conventional workshops, musical occasions, a livestock honest and the thirteenth version of the “Gastronomic Days of the Snail”.
thirteenth Caracol Gastronomic Days | 18-21 January
Gastronomy afficionados even have a spot within the patron saint’s festivities with the thirteenth version of the Snail Gastronomic Days, from Thursday the 18th to Sunday the twenty first. As regular, the times will function the participation of a number of institutions within the historic city centre, which can supply of their services the very best conventional recipes and new, priced to encourage common participation. The institutions concerned would be the El Populacho gastrobar, the La Esquina bar, the San Antón bar, the Ca Migue cafeteria bar, the Atis Tirma restaurant, the El Guanchinche restaurant and the Magec Café & Burger Bar institution.
Friday 19 January:
20:00 the night can be infused with music, first with a gathering of boleros and South American songs, ‘Historias de un amor’, which can happen on the Agüimes Municipal Theatre
at 22:30 a festive night in Plaza del Rosario led by Grupo Mambo and Línea DJ.
Saturday, 20 January: Feast Day of San Sebastián
10:00 Livestock honest on the esplanade of the Agüimes Auditorium Theatre.
11:30 Eucharist, adopted by a spiritual procession with the pictures of San Sebastián and Ntra. Sra. del Rosario
23:00 The nice celebration in Plaza del Rosario with a DJ Occasion Music pageant.
Sunday 21 January:
11:00 The morning can be devoted to the little ones, with a youngsters’s play park on the plaza.
20:00 the Municipal Theater of Agüimes will host the thirteenth Parranda del Lejío Solidarity Gala, with performances by the organizing group, Parranda Pal Ingenio and the singer Juan Pablo Vega. Admission to the gala can be freed from cost, though attendees can be requested to offer non-perishable meals and hygiene or cleansing merchandise, which can be allotted to the folks most in want by means of Cáritas Agüimes.
