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The auditory of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria

Sunday, March 1st, 2009
The auditory of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria of Gran Canaria is located at the nothwestern end of Las Canteras beach, next to the convention centre opposite the Las Arenas shopping centere with it’s modern design. It is named after Alfredo Kraus, a famous spanish tenor who died in 1999 and was considered to be one of the last Grandseigneurs of opera. Designed by the architect Oscar Tusquets and the sculptor Juan Bordes it was first opened on December 5th in 1997. The auditory hosts many cultural and social events like the annual Canary Islands' Music Festival, wich takes place at each years beginning, or the Las Palmas of Gran Canaria Film Festival, which is organized in corporation with the city council of Las Palmas. Throughout the year many events are running in the auditory. Many own concerts, as well as the Las Palmas Philharmony Society concerts ...
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Music festival WOMAD (World of Music and Dance)

Saturday, November 1st, 2008
If you would like to listen to faboulus live music from all over the world, you should not miss the famous World of Music, Art and Dance (WOMAD) festival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. WOMAD festivals take place in over 20 countries, on 4 continents.
For the past eight years, the Parque de Santa Catalina - a city square close to spectacular the Playa de las Canteras beach - has been the heart of the festival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. During these 3-4 days, you can not only enjoy various live musical performances, but also workshops, stalls, night shows, DJ sessions, as well as children events. The original idea of Peter Gabriel – the founder of the festival, was to evoke interest in celebrating, and first of all, in sharing the world music, arts and dance.
Now, the festival attracts ...
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Amusement park “Aqualand”

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Originally there were two amusement parks focussing on water fun at Gran Canaria: the so called “AquaSur” as well as the “Ocean Park”. The last one was located at mid Maspalomas, but it is out of order nowadays. The “Aquasur” finally turned into “Aqualand” in the course of the years and makes the largest leisure park of the isle by now. Covering a surface area of about 90.000 square metres this theme park aims at offering a great amount of water- based attractions such as for example more than 30 water slides. There is a certain area addressing at children which also contains a great variety of the park’s mascot, the “Aqualand”- ape. Another amazing attraction is the famous “Tornado”, a closed flume entertaining visitors by presenting light- and sound effects while sliding. Furthermore there are tourist features like the “Mamut” for four persons, the “Crazy Race” with nine parallel ...
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Comments: 1 Comment so far » Categories: About Gran Canaria, Locations, Mapalomas, Pictures, Places to visit, Sports, Tourism, Trips, Watersport

Santa Lucia de Tirajana & much more

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I'll write you a few tipps what to do in Gran Canari - I did all these things in my holiday last year. In the southern part of Gran Canaria you should visit Santa Lucia de Tirajana, it’s in the south of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and in the north east of Puerto Rico. The small and pretty city, with it's 56.000 friendly inhabitants offers you different options to spend your time as interesting as possible. See the awesome landscape with the rocks and green fields, blotched with flowers. Get impressed by the magnificent Costa de Agaete! Visit the old castle of Santa Lucia de Tirajana and get in deep touch to Gran Canarian history! Charter a boat at Puerto de Mogan and enjoy the ocean or catch your own fish for dinner! Rent a bike and make a trip on your own or cruise leaded ...
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Gran Canaria, a cosmopolitan isle with tradition

Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Gran Canaria is located in the centre of the Canary archipelago together with Tenerife. The surface is of about 1.532 km². Only some of the highlights of nature are idyllic bays and marvellous beaches, imposing cliffs, hidden paradises, majestic mountains, impressing volcanic craters, breathtaking ravines mixed with a subtropical vegetation. The isle of Gran Canaria sustains many nature reserves and national parks.
Gran Canaria has become a cosmopolitan island where all over the year numerous cultural events take place everywhere on the island. Many events of music, dance, theatre and cinema or different festivals and many carnival shows and religios events are taking place in Gran Canaria. Due to the consciousness of tradition of the Canary Islands the origins of some of these events, or so called fiestas, lead back even to the time of the aborigines. Most of the religios ...
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