It will be located in the Plaza del Rosario and will have children's attractions, games, crafts, puppets, bouncy castles and a mini tourist train to explore the streets of the historic center in a fun and family way.
The historic center of Agüimes will be decorated this weekend to welcome the Christmas holidays. It will do so with the lighting of the lights, on Friday at 19:00 p.m., in the Plaza del Rosario, in an event that will feature a performance by the Municipal Music Band. In that same place throughout the weekend there will be a Christmas market with about 20 craft and traditional pastry stalls that will delight young and old.
The market will open its doors on Friday at 17:00 p.m. On Saturday it can be visited between 10:00 and 22:00 and on Sunday between 10:00 and 15:00. In addition to buying Christmas products, acquiring local crafts or sweetening your palate with some of the most typical delicacies of the southeast of Gran Canaria, you can spend a magnificent day with your family thanks to the parallel activities designed for the little ones in the house.
There will be bouncy castles, crafts, balloon twisting, face painting, puppets and, as the star attraction, a mini tourist train in which to explore the streets of the historic center in a fun way. Visitors will also be able to enjoy the usual attractions of Agüimes, its museums, terraces and shops, in a well-kept, pleasant and relaxed atmosphere, ideal for disconnecting at the beginning of these endearing festivities.
The activities have been organized by the Commerce and Tourism areas of the City Council, in order to stimulate, after the last year of hiatus due to the pandemic, festivities that always create a unique atmosphere of celebration in Agüimes. Helped by the beauty of its traditional architecture, the warmth of its lighting and the tranquility of its streets, Christmas takes on a picturesque and unique air in the historic center, which will be reinforced this weekend with the dynamism of this new Christmas market. craft.