Living culture in Gran Canaria connects festivities, oral memory, food, trades and community practices shaped by the island's geography.
Gran Canaria keeps traditions that cannot be explained only as festive events: they depend on trades, paths, speech, food and community memory.
Among its main reference points are Historic Las Palmas, Aboriginal landscape, Natural contrasts, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. Living culture shows how the island turns its past into recognisable practices within contemporary society.
Key points
Nuestra Señora del Pino de Teror
La patrona de Gran Canaria, venerada en Teror, convierte la villa en uno de los centros de peregrinacion mas importantes del archipielago cada 8 de septiembre.
Carnaval de Las Palmas
El carnaval de Las Palmas es uno de los mas concurridos de España, con una tradicion que mezcla influencias atlanticas, africanas y latinoamericanas en sus comparsas.
Musica y timple de Las Palmas
La musica popular grancanaria tiene sus propias expresiones, con el timple y la voz como ejes de una oralidad que conecta medianias, puertos y fiestas populares.
Artesania de las medianias
Ceramica indigena, bordados de calado y cesteria de palma son expresiones artesanales vivas en municipios del interior, especialmente en Ingenio y Aguimes.
Cocina de barranco y costa
El rancho canario, el sancocho, las papas arrugadas y el mojo representan una cocina de raiz popular que aprovecha los recursos del campo, el mar y los barrancos.
Municipalities of Gran Canaria
See all →- AgaeteAgaete is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- AgüimesAgüimes is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- ArtenaraArtenara is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- ArucasArucas is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- FirgasFirgas is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- GáldarGáldar is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.