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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”170230″]Throughout the 21st century (before the pandemic and this 2021 edition\u2019s cancellation), the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival<\/strong> has been beating in the heart of Santa Catalina Park, between the homonymous port and Las Canteras Beach. Every year, a stage is installed where the main contests and galas take place. However, in recent years, fiesta lovers have brought back the so-called Day Carnival in Vegueta<\/strong>, with more participation year after year.<\/p>\n

Vegueta is the name of the city\u2019s foundational borough, established in 1478<\/strong>. That first settlement founded by Spanish conquistadors started flourishing and for centuries was the Grancanarian capital\u2019s main hub. There are records of Carnival being celebrated already back in the 16th century, thanks to the influence of Italian travellers.<\/p>\n

And so it continued for many centuries after. At the beginning of the 20th century, social circles created in institutions such as the Gabinete Literario started celebrating what was called the \u201cCarnaval Culto\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (\u201cCultured Carnival\u201d), holding the first float decoration contests (more than floats, they were lorries) or even costume contests to see who had the most elaborate and original ones.<\/p>\n

From those years remains the vestiges left behind by the Romero brothers with stone carvings to remember their hometown\u2019s also famous Carnival: C\u00e1diz. They can be seen on the fa\u00e7ade of a mansion on Juan de Quesada<\/strong> Street, near Santa Ana Square. These are just some traces that Carnival has left throughout history in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.<\/p>\n

*Photos: Nacho Gonz\u00e1lez<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five stone carvings on a building fa\u00e7ade in Vegueta as a reminder of the fiesta\u2019s historical importance in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094","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=16094"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22158,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions\/22158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}