The Drag Queen Preselection event, the popular fancy dress competition, a night of cross-dressers and the children’s comparsas performances set the pace for the second week of the celebrations
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Monday 26 January, 2026. The Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival is with us until 1 March, setting the pace in Santa Catalina Park, the epicentre of the galas and competitions. The lively inauguration of the programme last week with the opening proclamation, the presentation of contenders and the draw for order of participation, the Children’s Choreographic Festival, the Children’s Murgas Competition, and the first grand gala, for the Children’s Throne, confirmed the start of Carnival celebrations where the keynote has been images of capacity crowds and a stunning following from the general public.
Drag Queen Preselection and the Adult Fancy Dress Competition
A trend which can only go from strength to strength, if we bear in mind that the second week of the festive calendar will see such significant acts going up onto the stage as the Drag Queen Preselection or the Adult Fancy Dress Competition – glorious fun and abandon. Acts which connect directly with the audience, with values which are the Carnival’s very own: respect, tolerance and transgression. Both of these competitions show a picture of sell-out and capacity crowds: the Preselection sold out online within 10 minutes and in the ticket office, the last ticket sold two hours and ten minutes after it opened.
Cross-Dresser Gala
The same as for the Cross-Dresser Gala, an event which delights audiences with its sass and reminds us of the origins of these celebrations, when 50 years ago these were the people who had to dodge repression, reclaiming the liberty denied them beyond the imposition of the Carnival mask.
Children’s Party
There is still room in the diary for a Children’s Party, for the little comparsas that will show such ingenious choreographies, a display of imagination in costumes and the enthusiasm that these girls and boys work with. There are five groups, namely Brisa de Volcán, Rayo de Luna Junior, Yurimagua Junior, Tropicana Infantil and Lianceiros Junior, who work year-round with their hopes set on the Santa Catalina stage.
Murgas Competition and Comparsas
All of these as the prelude to a third week which lends the spotlight to the Murgas, 19 groups which draw from satire, irony, witty words and tone to offer social criticism or criticism of the status quo. They will take over the Carnival venue from Monday 2 to Saturday 7, with a day allotted for the dances of the Adult Comparsas, 7 groupings who will put themselves in the hands of the audience on February 6.
Dog Carnival
On Sunday 8, Carnival ratifies a lovable contest, the Dog Carnival, a diary date where the prize is what matters least: what is important is to see the pets having fun with their owners in a morning event where dogs are welcomed onto this special stage. And that day ends with such a delightful evening, with the 11 older ladies contending to show off the Grand Dame’s crown, the unquestionable proof that Carnival doesn’t care about age.
Carnival announces the date for ticket sale
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Thursday 22 January, 2026. The Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival will offer tickets to the general public for the Drag Queen Preselection event, the Carnival Queen Gala and the Drag Queen Gala in the next few days. Ticket sales will be via the entradascanarias.com ticket platform, with links on lpacarnaval.com. Likewise, tickets can be bought at the ticket office provided by the organisers at the rear of the Miller building (plaza de Canarias, Canarias Square).
In order to make the purchase process simpler, ticket sales will be staggered. The first tickets to be made available will be for the Drag Queen Preselection event, and they can be purchased for 10 euros from Monday, January 26. Just a day later, on Tuesday 27, tickets will be available for the Carnival Queen Gala, at a price of 10 euros; while on Thursday 29, tickets can be bought for the Drag Queen Gala for 15 euros.
On the days specified, sales will be activated from 9.00 (GMT +0), both online and at the ticket office. However, the ticket office will have fixed opening hours over the remaining days when it will be open from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.00h and from 16.00 to 20.00h. At weekends, opening hours will be from 10.00 to 13.00h.
For the rest of the events on the programme, access will be free until capacity is reached.
Order of ticket sales:
Drag Queen Preselection
From Monday 26 January at 9.00h. Flat rate ticket price: 10 euros. Ticket sales on entradascanarias.com with links on lpacarnaval.com and at the ticket office at the rear of the Miller building. From January 28, the ticket office will change its opening hours which will then be: from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.00h and from 13.00 to 20.00h; at weekends from 10.00 to 13.00h.
Carnival Queen Gala
From Tuesday 27 January at 9.00h. Flat rate ticket price: 10 euros. Ticket sales on entradascanarias.com with links on lpacarnaval.com and at the ticket office at the rear of the Miller office. From January 28, the ticket office will change its opening hours, which will then be from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.00h and from 16.00 to 20.00h; and at weekends from 10.00 to 13.00h.
Drag Queen Gala
From Thursday 29 January at 9.00h. Flat rate ticket price: 15 euros. Ticket sales on entradascanarias.com with links on lpacarnaval.com and at the ticket office behind the Miller building. From January 30, the ticket office will change its opening hours, which will then be from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.00h and from 16.00 to 20.00h; and at weekends from 10.00 to 13.00h.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival celebrates its 50th anniversary and dedicates the edition to “Las Vegas”
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Monday 19 January, 2026. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival celebrates the 50 years it has been in existence after its revival following the ending of the Spanish dictatorship. And the fact is that this fancy dress party par excellence, despite being kept alive clandestinely, returned to the streets on the death of the dictator, even before the configuration of a new democracy, a new political model for coexistence and the passing of the 1978 Constitution.
The holding of the event highlights the particular character of the celebrations which, since 2023, have been recognised as a Fiesta of International Tourist Interest and, officially, one of the major attractions of Brand Spain overseas.
From 23 January to 1 March, therefore, the Gran Canaria capital will be the setting for a large number of galas, competitions and street celebrations where freedom, irreverence, respect and good humour make up a fundamental part of the Carnival’s identity.
The theme for this occasion will see the Carnival’s enclosure and its competitions turned into grand spectacles equalling the level of the city in Nevada, since “Las Vegas” will be the theme running through each one of our events. So, there will be glamour, luxury and musicals; figures such as Elvis, Sinatra, Mariah Carey and Céline Dion; neon lights and majestic hotel fronts will feature alongside each other in the festival of the flesh.
Visitors to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will be sucked into a world of fantasy and will enjoy a wide programme, which includes the famous galas. Details of the programme are to be found at this URL. Access to events in the majority of cases is free until capacity it reached, with the exception of the Drag Queen Preselection event, The Carnival Queen Gala and the Drag Queen Gala: tickets for these events will be put on sale via ticket platforms a few days prior to the holding of each event. Events can also be followed on screen, with the public channels RTVC and RTVE, depending on the event, broadcasting content on their digital platforms.
The organisers recommend you keep a close eye on your Social Media. There will be information in English on FB, at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival; and on X, @lpacarnival.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will be dressing up as Las Vegas for the 2026 Carnival
The Carnival is the ultimate fancy dress party, though in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria it is much more than that: it is an event worthy of a Festival of International Tourist Interest, in which freedom, irreverence and good humour constitute a major part of its identity. And this is always kept in mind, to the point that as soon as one carnival is over, preparations are already underway for the next.
That explains the fact that the dates for the 2026 Carnival have already been arranged: it will run from 24 January to 1 March. And the theme that will set the tone for the galas, contests and street celebrations has already been chosen. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will be dressing up as Las Vegas, getting into the skin of the famous city in the Mojave Desert.
The 2026 festivities are drawing inspiration from the glamour, luxury and sense of showbiz of Las Vegas, a place lit up by dazzling figures like Elvis and Sinatra and coloured by great stars like Mariah Carey and Celine Dion, where the neon lights are the gateway to magnificent hotels and a world of footlights and fabulous shows.
Those who visit the capital of Gran Canaria between these dates will find it with the carnival atmosphere in full swing, with an extensive programme of events including its famous Carnival Queen and Drag Queen galas, its contests for large popular groups and a whole series of musical performances in the streets.
An Olympic Finish to the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 5 March 2025. The 2025 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnaval reaches its final crescendo this week. Its latest iteration, dedicated to the Olympic Games, is entering the final phase of the schedule, marked by the election of its Drag Queen, street celebrations, and extensive timetable of concerts, culminating with the Burial of the Sardine. There is something for everyone at this stage of the carnival: families and adult audiences have plenty of opportunities for dressing up in costumes and living the essence of a festival that garners international tourist interest.
The schedule’s final push kicks off on 7 March at 9 pm with the long-awaited Drag Queen Gala, in which 15 candidates will compete for the sceptre with the biggest international appeal in the island capital’s carnival. Parque Santa Catalina’s Olympic stage is host to the event that will be viewed around the world and is always attended by a capacity crowd.
One of the four remaining Carnival Nights of the festivity takes place that same evening. Stages are set for musical performances in Plaza de Manuel Becerra—where Guaynaa will be playing—and in Plaza de la Luz, near the La Isleta neighbourhood, and Eduardo Benot Street, near the Port Market.
The festivity continues on Saturday 8 March, even when the sun is as its highest, with a massive Daytime Carnival in Plaza de Canarias, near Santa Catalina Park (from 12 pm onward), and during the Carnival Night scheduled to follow it (until 5 in the morning). Taking to the stage earlier in the evening are Nía (at 6:30 pm) and Olga Tañón (at 8:30 pm), before concerts after dark from a lineup that includes Juacko, Ray Castellano, and Abián Reyes, from midnight onwards.
Sunday 9 March is reserved for a bustling Family Carnival in Santa Catalina and Plaza de Canarias, from 11 am, rounding off with Wilfrido Vargas at 8 pm. The fantastic Carnival Choreography Festival is one of the morning’s highlights, in which numerous children’s dance and costume groups will take part, always drawing a capacity crowd to the park. It’s well worth a look. Plenty of music, costumes, and an audience of all ages are just the combination for an intense Carnival day out in the city.
Even with all this, there are still some incredible shows booked for Santa Catalina’s grand stage. The biggest, Cross-Dresser Night, scheduled for Wednesday 12 March at 8 pm, is a tribute to the artists who made cross-dressing a hallmark of Carnivals past. They are the true predecessors of what would later give way to the Drag Queens of the 21st century festivity, who will be the leading attractions of this Carnival.
And there is still a buzzing weekend in the Santa Catalina and La Isleta neighbourhoods yet to come. On Friday 14 March, the Daytime Carnival and Carnival Night are back, with a succession of concerts for various tastes, in different locations from 4 pm to 5 am. In between them, at 8:30 pm, Maluma will take the stage at Santa Catalina Park.
This is a grand prelude to 15 March, when the Grand Parade is scheduled to take place, setting off in La Isleta (Manuel Becerra) at 4 pm and ending at Mayor de Triana Street, just outside the historic centre of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
This is one of the major events in the city’s Carnival, with numerous floats (129 this year) among a packed audience, in procession and escorted by the groups and winners of galas and contests. The crowd will parade alongside them on foot through the centre of the Gran Canaria’s capital.
The following Carnival Night begins with more concerts from 10 pm through to 5 in the morning. Tito ‘El Bambino’ is scheduled to perform at 1 pm, headlining another evening of musical variety for the huge audience in attendance.
And lastly, the Olympic Games Carnival marks the grand finale on Sunday 16 March. To kick off, we have the ‘Widows Race’. Setting out from Santa Catalina at 1 pm, they return to the same park after making their way around the 3.5-km circuit in the surrounding area. This is a special, non-competitive event, in which everyone over ten years of age is invited to take part, in costume, of course, in keeping with the tone of the festivity.
Next, Plaza de Canarias will hold one last Daytime Carnival, until at 7:30 pm when the Burial of the Sardine begins. This parade runs from Santa Catalina to Las Canteras Beach, where they burn the fish, thereby bidding the Carnival farewell until the following year. Widows, mourners, and a cohort of enthusiastic public always accompanies the Sardine, thereby completing the programme as we now look toward the festivities in 2026.
We’re looking forward to seeing you at the Carnival 2025 concerts in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
As has been the norm in the modern history of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival, the Olympic Games Carnival is taking over Santa Catalina Park for the main events on the programme: galas and contests that capture the audience’s attention and are broadcast on television and the Internet at a national and international level.
Santa Catalina is the setting for the Murgas and Comparsas competitions, the Dogs’ Carnival, the Costume Contest, the Body Painting Contest and the Carnival Queen, Drag Queen, Grande Dame and Children’s Throne Galas.
But that is not all there is to the 2025 Carnival, by any means. The festival takes over the Park’s surroundings, in several locations that extend to the populous district of La Isleta, the cradle of the modern Carnival in the city.
For example, El Refugio Park, adjoining Santa Catalina, hosts the now traditional funfair, which attracts large crowds every year. In addition, Plaza de Canarias, also nearby, between the cruise ship dock and the heart of Santa Catalina, is reserved for the big popular celebrations in the sunshine, aimed more at a family audience. It is the site chosen for the Daytime Carnival.
At the far end of the La Isleta district, other Carnival venues are installed. The stage in Plaza de Manuel Becerra, by the main road traffic entrance to the Port of Las Palmas, is for events associated with a younger audience, with DJ sessions and reggaeton and trap-related artists.
And Plaza de la Luz, next to the historic church of the same name, is the setting for band concerts and performances of Latin music.
Finally, the Mercado del Puerto area, from Calle Agustín Millares to Calle Eduardo Benot, is filled with chiringuitos (street refreshment stalls) and the popular chiringays (gay-friendly chiringuitos) : an arrangement that completes the profile of the spaces for celebrating Carnival in the street.
There are seven nights of festivities: 28 February and 1, 3, 7, 8, 14 and 15 March. The timetable varies from night to night, but normally the music continues until 4 am on Saturdays and 5 am on Sundays.
The family, daytime and friends festivities are normally held from 12 noon to 10 pm.
The Olympic Carnival enters the week of the Queen
The Carnival dedicated to the Olympic Games in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria enters a week with a clear leading lady: its Queen. Friday 28 February, at 9 pm local time, is the big night. From that moment, nine candidates will compete in one of the major galas on the programme. It is a classic event in the city’s festivities that has been present since the Carnival was revived at the end of the 1970s. And it closes an extended weekend that concludes on Carnival Tuesday.
The Carnival Queen evening, broadcast on local, national and international television via Television Española and Televisión Canaria, captures the attention of the public who follow the festival, to enjoy the work of the best designers of the costumes displayed by the candidates on stage, pure carnivalesque art that the hopefuls wear as they parade in pursuit of their dream: to be crowned Queen of the festivities and become their ambassador.
The night always provides spectacular images, both of the show taking place on stage and of the display of imagination when it comes to dressing the young candidates. Though few are more emotional than those of the final coronation, the moment when the new monarch takes her sceptre and is proclaimed in front of an audience that always fills Santa Catalina Park to capacity on these occasions.
Carnival Nights
The election of the Queen marks the start of an intense weekend in the setting for the celebrations. And on the same evening it is followed by the first of the Carnival Nights, which takes place in Plaza Manuel Becerra, Plaza de La Luz and Calle Eduardo Benot: in other words, in an area of influence of the working-class district of La Isleta, the cradle of the modern Carnival in the capital of Gran Canaria.
More than a hundred refreshment stalls take over this area for the enjoyment of a crowd of revellers in fancy dress, experiencing the most authentic Carnival: the one in the street. This is when the popular festivities really come into their own. In this first instalment, they will last from 11 pm to 4 am.
And the fun will continue at midday the following day, Saturday 1 March, with an Inaugural Parade, starting in Doramas Park and heading along Calle Pío XII, in the Ciudad Jardín district, until it reaches the Central Market, in the Alcaravaneras neighbourhood. The winners of the contests held up to this point (the Junior Queen , the Grande Dame and the Carnival Queen herself ) lead one of the first popular processions on the programme, in an ideal event for entering into the spirit of the Carnival and enjoying it as it passes.
Daytime Carnival
Shortly afterwards, from 2 pm to 10 pm, the Daytime Carnival opens in the city, in Santa Catalina Park and Plaza de Canarias. This is another of those occasions for enjoying the music and the atmosphere, in a great celebration of fancy dress. And at a more suitable time of day for a family audience, although on these occasions all kinds of revellers answer the call.
Saturday night will also be a Carnival Night, a bit longer than the first: from 9 pm to 5 am on Sunday morning, in the same setting of La Isleta and with the same enthusiasm.
The Choreographic Festival
One of the events that attracts the largest turnout is reserved for Sunday 2 March, with a huge family audience in attendance. This is the Choreographic Festival, which takes place from 12 noon in Santa Catalina Park, with performances by hundreds of children and young people in groups wearing fancy costumes giving of their best in enthusiastic dance routines. This is one of those times of great comings and goings and expectancy on the festival stage, and it is one of the biggest draws in the city’s Carnival.
The week concludes on that same Sunday with another major event: the International Body-Painting Contest. This competition, which is well worth seeing, has acquired worldwide prestige and attracts participants from a number of places in Spain and abroad. The standard is impressive and it is undoubtedly one of the great attractions of the modern Carnival, both for the local audience and for visitors.
Carnival Tuesday
That is not the end of the long weekend of festivities, which extends until Carnival Tuesday. Before this, however, there will be another night of revelry, on Monday 3 February in Plaza Manuel Becerra, Plaza de La Luz and Calle Eduardo Benot, from 8 pm to 5 am, continuing the succession of nights in a great festive sequence .
And on Carnival Tuesday itself it will be the youngest participants who take centre stage. Because that is the date, 4 March, chosen to celebrate the Children’s Parade, which starts from Plaza Manuel Becerra, in La Isleta, at 12 noon and concludes in Avenida José Mesa y López, one of the main open-air shopping areas in the capital of Gran Canaria.
The floats and the children’s groups are responsible for taking on a leading role in this event, which is attended by a large number of spectators, mostly families. Another designed for the same audience is the Family Carnival, which will be held afterwards in Santa Catalina Park and Plaza de Canarias, from 2 pm to 10 pm. This will certainly involve more music, more festivity and more costumes, on a day that is traditionally always one of the great highlights of the programme. And there will still be more Carnival to come.
A week of murgas and comparsas, ending with pets and the Grande Dame
The Olympic Games Carnival will witness an exciting week of competition in Santa Catalina Park. The main festival stage is hosting no fewer than five nights featuring Carnival groups, in intense sessions eagerly awaited by local fans. So from Monday to Saturday the festivities are given over to murgas and comparsas, though on Sunday the spotlight will be on participants of a different kind: the pets and the candidates for the title of Grande Dame.
As many as 22 male and female murgas are competing on 17, 18 and 19 February, from Monday to Wednesday, in the preliminary phases of a competition that is always very hard fought, in which prizes for performance, costumes and lyrics are decided among the groups taking part.
Only eight of them, those chosen by the jury, will participate in the grand final on Saturday 22 February, in an evening session enjoyed with great enthusiasm by the audience in attendance in Santa Catalina.
In between, on Friday 21 February, from 9 pm, six comparsas will vie for the prizes awarded for performance and costumes on the big stage in the park.
These groups have been present since the beginning of the modern Carnival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and constitute one of its main distinguishing features, with their choreography and their colourful feathered costumes.
To complete the occasion, an exhibition of children’s comparsas has been scheduled before the adult groups appear on stage.
Sunday 23 February is a very special day in the Olympic Games Carnival. At 12 noon the Dogs’ Carnival will be held. In this event, pets and their owners compete in one of the most unusual contests on the programme, which has been an established part of the city’s great festivity in the twenty-first century. Prizes are awarded for the best costumes, on a day of lively celebration with a large popular audience and a substantial number of foreign visitors.
The week culminates, at 9 pm the same Sunday, in the Grande Dame Gala. Some ten candidates, in colourful costumes devised by the Carnival’s best designers, take the stage to show how the senior generation enjoys this kind of festivity in the city.
Admission is free to all the week's events and all are welcome, subject to capacity.
The proclamation parade reminds the city that Carnival has started
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 5 February, 2025. Santa Catalina Park shows off the “Olympic Games” Carnival stage to locals and visitors, an imposing structure connecting the allegory of the past, the classic Games whose origin dates back to Greece and the temple of Zeus, and the modern Games, with a magnificent athletics track and a censer where the flame of Prometheus will light up the events featured on lpacarnaval.com
And it is exactly towards that stage that the first Carnival event will take us, with a proclamation parade which, on Saturday 8 February, at 8 pm, will leave from Calle Juan Rejón in the popular neighbourhood of La Isleta, continuing through Albareda until it ends up in the heart of Carnival. This parade will fill its route with rhythm and colour, with features that remind us that the party has started, a party that will be lively right through to 16 March, when it comes to an end with the Burial of the Sardine.
After the parade, from 9 pm onwards, the starring role is taken by the voice of a Carnival legend, Orlando Jiménez, the president of the veteran Murga group Los Nietos de Kika, a local group from the town of Arucas which, like all Murgas, questions current affairs and goes over them in a humorous tone. And to keep spirits up, there’ll be plenty of music. El Combo Dominicano band will be delivering all-time favourite sounds from the stage.
And a day later, this same Carnival nucleus will be the epicentre of fun and brazenness. Because, on Sunday, at 9.30 pm, the Adult Costume Competition starts, an event which has seven people competing in the individual category, and ten groups competing with costumes and choreographies worked out between friends.
This will be just the beginning of a Carnival which has so much in store. The second week will start off on 14 February, which is when St Valentine’s Day is celebrated. And the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival will celebrate the day with one of the events that stirs up most passions and love: the Drag Queen Preselection, where 25 candidates dream of their great ticket to the Drag Queen Gala.
That second Carnival-goers’ encounter will devote Saturday 15 February to children, with the selection of the Junior Throne Queen. Although both boys and girls can compete, in 2025 it’s eight little girls who have signed up for the encounter. The Junior Throne brings all the little ones together in the enclosure. There’s no doubt that it’s a party designed for families to enjoy themselves together, and which guarantees the future of Carnival. Sunday 16 February is for families too: this Carnival doesn’t neglect its new blood, and on 16 February, from 6 pm onwards, the Junior Murgas, little groups of kids who begin their humorous questioning of the system, come out to give one hundred per cent on the Santa Catalina stage.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria welcomes Olympic Games themed Carnival festivities
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 27 January, 2025. - This is how it was announced the day the last edition came to a close and, with 2025 under way, Carnival has everything ready in order to celebrate a fiesta which will have plenty of clever allusions to the world of sport.
The machinery of this Fiesta of International Tourist Interest never stops. The year-round preparation shapes a schedule of activities with room for absolutely everyone, and for both the local public and outsiders. Events for children, for families, to enjoy with friends… Many, almost all, are open to all and free. Others, although fewer, are for ticket-holders only. These are the galas when the Carnival Queen and the Drag Queen are chosen, as well as the Drag Queen pre-selection - such is the enthusiasm generated by the world of drag that this earlier round is also ticketed - or the final phase of a competition which gives a prize to the wit and humour of the Murgas, groups which analyse the reality or the activity of the political class with impudence and irony.
These tickets are usually made available to the public via official ticketing platforms and at the box office itself. This is always some days before the actual events, when the enclosure has been measured. And the tickets disappear fast. Especially for anything concerning the Drag Queen, a persona which stamps character on the Gran Canaria capital’s Carnival. An icon of the mischief and tolerance which define the festivities.
The complete programme and the description of each event have been on this web for months, so that anyone visiting the webpage can use the information to trace out a road map for themselves. Yesterday and today’s leading players also have a place on the website. Along with summaries of other editions, and curiosities which will help the visitor understand these Gran Canarian festivities.
The Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival embraces its legions of followers and also those from elsewhere who want to become a part of the Carnival sensation. To start with, a large stage is built, the watchword in stages which stands apart from all the rest. This stage is set up in the open air, a real work of ephemeral architecture which is provided for the galas and competitions while highlighting the year’s theme. The 2025 stage will be much more than an Olympus, it will be the temple which thousand of Carnival-goers will visit as they present themselves to their events with the firm ambition of becoming a part of their history.
The island’s capital thus reminds you that, from 8 February to 15 March, Carnival will be the point for this encounter with fantasy, fun and abandon. The city also reminds you that, within that official opening announcement in the evening of 8 February, with the speech and the parade to introduce the leading players, and the burning of the sardine on the beach, on Sunday 16 March, the symbol of farewell and rebirth, the world of Carnival will hold dozens of international concerts, with particular stress on Latin music. Stars like Maluma, Olga Tañón, La India, Guaynaa and a long list of big names from the world of salsa and reggaeton are part of the list of musical performers who will bring the beat to Carnival-goers both during the day and at night.
For anyone who wants to immerse themself in the universe of Carnival, the organisers give you the same advice as the anthem which the iconic Sindo Saavedra gave the festivities: “get into your best costume”.