Good Night Triana 2011 - Gran Canaria

Last Friday, 8th April, Las Palmas G.C. celebrated for the first time an evemte they called Good Night Triana, with all kind of activities for children and adults. All the shops and restaurants remained opened until midnight in the comercial area of Triana.

Some shops offered discounts and also prepared some special acts, like real live models on the stores.

Also, live music was played by several bands along the streets of Triana.

Some stores brought their own DJ´s to entertaint people.

There was a special decoration on every comercial building.

Behind the Perez Galdos theater, a giant screen was placed in the middle, surrounded by hammocks that people could use to enjoy the screening.

This teather was also freely open to be visited as part of the entertainments of the night.

In the afternon, many activities were organized for kids.

The whole idea has been such a great success and people in the city have enjoyed it a lot. We hope they will repeat it next year too!

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Virtual Trip To Gran Canaria: Part III

This week I would like to invite you to another virtual trip for my city. Have you missed previous virtual trips? Check them here!

Today we are visiting Las Palmas Cathedral and surrounding areas.

Here you can see a park which is very near to the Atlantic Ocean.




This is a picture of the Nestor Alamo statue, which was a very important artist here.

This gate is one of the entrances to the Colombus Museum.
Colombus stayed in the Islands for a while and that´s why they created this wonderful museum.

The whole area surrounding the Museum is very quite and calm.

Quiet corners to have a nice chat, drinking coffee, tea, having a snack...

This is the Perez Galdos Theater, which is divided in two parts: the older one, built in 1890, and the modern one, built less than ten years ago.

Here you can see the Mercado de Vegueta, a market who was opened by the Queen Isabel II.

It has been remodeled recently and now it looks so much nicer on the inside and outside too.

Details of the sorrounding streets, like this amazing gargoyle. On the right picture you can see the flags of the CAAM, an important artistic modern museum.

A bunch of beautiful and typical balconies.

A funny thing I noticed recently is that the City Council has put this plate in several historical buildings, so now any tourist can phone this number and receive information about the place he or she is visiting, in different languages.

Here are some views of the Santa Ana Plaza.

A curios fact here, the Canary Islands were called this way because of the word dog in latin, which is Can. And few statues of cans situated in the Santa Ana Plaza represent this origin.

And here it is, the Cathedral.

And here are some views of the Council Building.

And here is me again, just saying thank you to all of you who read this post, I hope you had enjoyed it!

See you next week on another virtual trip!