{"id":16092,"date":"2021-02-17T17:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/the-tramps-cameo-in-the-las-palmas-de-gran-canaria-carnival\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:00:04","slug":"the-tramps-cameo-in-the-las-palmas-de-gran-canaria-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/the-tramps-cameo-in-the-las-palmas-de-gran-canaria-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tramp\u2019s cameo in the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;204931&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"item-pages-noticias row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"span6 noticiaslateralizquierdo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"span6\">\n<div class=\"descripcion\">\n<p>The real Chaplin died in December 1977: specifically, on Christmas Day. The universal filmmaker, comedian and writer left behind a halo of immortality on everything he had introduced to pop culture. Just a few months later, the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival dedicated its <strong>1978<\/strong> poster to the famous Little Tramp. It was the third year Carnival was celebrated after the Francoist dictatorship, so the Organisation\u2019s gesture tapped into the spirit of openness and freedom to celebrate the fiestas even back then in those new beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>Though, even before then, since 1976, this character began to appear on the Grancanarian capital\u2019s streets during Carnival: that is, a skilled Chaplin impersonator, a man from Santa Mar\u00eda de Gu\u00eda (in the north of Gran Canaria) that soon acquired the nickname \u201cCharlot del Carnaval de Las Palmas\u201d (The Las Palmas Carnival Tramp). This man was <strong>Santiago Garc\u00eda D\u00edaz<\/strong>, one of the most famous characters in the history of the fiesta.<\/p>\n<p>Don Santiago stayed faithful to Carnival year after year, always walking with The Tramp strut and moving his moustache comically. The Organisation even reserved a spot for him in Pablo Losa&#8217;s <strong>2007<\/strong> poster, an edition dedicated to La Belle Epoque.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Garc\u00eda died shortly after the <strong>2001<\/strong> Carnival. His funeral was, as he wished, &#8220;a party full of carnival enthusiasts wanting to have fun&#8221;, with Carnival groups and party characters, all dressed up in costumes. Today, the city commemorates Don Santiago with a square named after him and a statue in the neighbourhood of Sansof\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1976, this character began to appear on the Grancanarian capital\u2019s streets during Carnival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16092"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21849,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16092\/revisions\/21849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}