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20 February 2024

Carnival burns the Sardine and announces an Olympic...

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 20 February 2024. The Sardine burned in the waters of Las Canteras to bring Carnival 2024 to a close. The Carnivals...

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12 February 2024

A Drag Queen apotheosis at the end of “Carnivals of...

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Monday 12 February, 2024 . If there is a hallmark which defines modern Carnival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, that...

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05 February 2024

Carnival has a date with its Queen in La Isleta

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Monday, 5 February, 2024 . It was in March 1976, so long ago now. At that time, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, like the...

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29 January 2024

Murga and comparsa groups take over the Carnival

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 29 January 2024. Murgas and comparsas embody the essence of people’s creative expression in the Carnival of Las Palmas...

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15th to 18th Centuries

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival is one of the oldest, most deeply rooted and unique festivals of the Canary Islands capital. For over five centuries the city has celebrated with masquerading, tomfoolery... and flesh.

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Los Legañosos

Founded in:
1982
President:
Marcos Pulido Arencibia
Director:
David Zurita Sánchez
Number of members:
78
City:
Ingenio - Carrizal

Founded in: 1982 to 1991 - After an eleven-year pause they started up again in 2002.

In 2015 they took a First Prize for Costume and a Second Prize for Performance back to El Carrizal, and in 2016 it was the other way round and they took the First Prize for Performance and the Second Prize for Costume.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival

Tomás Pérez Prize for Best Lyrics 2005

Tomás Pérez Prize for Best Lyrics 2014 for the song Con la Sanidad no se Juega (The Public Healthcare Isn't to Be Messed With).

First Prize for Costume 2015: 'Mil y Una Noches Haciendo Dieta para Acabar Jarto de Galletas' ('1001 Nights on a Diet, to End Up Stuffed to the Gills with Biscuits')

First Prize for Performance 2016

Second Prize for Costume 2016

Tomás Pérez Prize for Best Lyrics 2016 for the song El Repartidor Siempre Llama Dos Veces (The Delivery Man Always Rings Twice)

Prize for Best Percussion in 2017