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Special Events

Carnival Islands

Carnaval brings two weeks of music, dancing, noise, parades, craziness and energy, which on Lanzarote is held mainly on the waterside promenades of Arrecife and Puerto del Carman. It ends on Ash Wednesday with the zany ceremony of the Burial of the Sardine. For this farcical finale, black clad mourners so as a tiny coffin containing the sardine is buried on the seashore.

January

1st Anyo Nuevo (New years Day)
5th Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos Festival (Three Kings Parade, Teguise.)
6th Dia de Reyes (Epiphany)

February

2nd La Candelaria (Candlemas)
Carnaval two weeks, (dates vary each year): especially exuberant in Arrecife.

March / April

19th March San Jose (St Joseph's Day)Spains Fathers Day
Pascua (Easter) Thu, Fri, Sun of Easter Week, and following Mon Easter; look out for big events all over the islands during Easter Weak.

May

1st Dia del Trabajador (Labour Day)
30th Canarian Day

June

24th Fiesta de San Juan celebrating the midsummer, Haria, Lanzarote.
Corpus Christi: Arrecife, Lanzarote. Patterns of coloured sand are used to decorate the ground.

July

25th Santiago (St James"s Day)

August

15th Asuncion (Assumption)
Fiestas del Carmen (two weeks from 1 Aug): Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote. On the last Saturday fishing boats put out to sea with charmingly decorated effigies of the saint aboard.
Fiesta de San Gines (whole month): everywhere, but d especially Arrecife. Processions, parades and traditional dancing in the streets.

September

8th Fiesta de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Teguise
15th Virgen de los Volcanes general pilgrimage (romeria) to Mancha Blanca, Lanzarote. The highlight is a reenactment of the Virgin stopping the lava flow.

October

12th Hispanidad (Columbus Day)

November

1st Todos los Santos (All Saints' Day)

December

6th Dia de la Constitucion (Constitution Day)
8th Immaculada Conception (Immaculate Conception)
25th Navidad (Christmas)

Christmas nativity plays and processions take place all over the island.

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