Gran Canaria Tourist Guide

Culture in Gran Canaria is currently enjoying extraordinary health, thanks to the events and spectacles held on the island throughout the year. The Canaries International Music Festival has consolidated itself as one of the most outstanding events in classical music, thanks to the presence of world renowned figures who have raised its artistic quality and prestige and which signals the start of the cultural calendar. The International Cinema Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a bid by the island’s capital to promote independent cinema. Its programme includes the showing of films, documentaries and short films in the film industry, and parallel activities in which the current state of the sector is debated. Since 1992, the Canaries International Jazz & Más Heineken Festival is a fiesta which has brought together artists and lovers of this highly admired music on the island. Its celebration coincides in the summer with the Villa de Ingenio International Folklore Festival, a colourful musical display in which has attracted both local groups and international formations from over 40 countries since its inception.

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Culture in Gran Canaria is currently enjoying extraordinary health, thanks to the events and spectacles held on the island throughout the year.

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LEISURE GUIDE OF GRAN CANARIA