The Children's Parade and Daytime Carnival are successfully consolidated at the 2025 Maspalomas International Carnival.

 

Playa del Inglés' Avenida de Tirajana was filled with color on the morning of Sunday, March 23rd, with the Children's Parade. Already a success despite only having held three editions, the first one, held in 2019, was discontinued but was revived in 2024 by the Councilor for Tourism, Events, and Celebrations, Yilenia Vega, who also supported its integration with the innovative Daytime Carnival at the Yumbo Shopping Center. The synergy between the two events enabled the thousands of attendees to fully enjoy this first Carnival Sunday in the south.

 

 

Eight floats participated in the parade: Fabricamos Ilusiones (We Make Illusions), Reach for the Beach, Fantasma Amarillo (Yellow Ghost), El Reino Champiñón (The Mushroom Kingdom), Mil y una Noches de Aladín en México (One Thousand and One Nights of Aladdin in Mexico), Amicorum Planaxis, Ándale Pa'lante (Go For It), and Ajochina Town . Families followed the floats to the rhythm of the music, with many of the children dressed as Snow White, superheroes, Minnie Mouse, police officers, mariachis, unicorns, or princesses in general, to name just a few of the most common costumes.

 

 

The Children's Parade also featured the three award-winning girls from the Children's Pageant, along with several batucada groups, the murgas Los Legañositos and Los Chachitos, the Mini Tren de Playa del Inglés, popular Carnival characters such as El Escocés and Cantinflas, and the children's comparsas Lianceiros and Brisa de Volcán (which is now celebrating its twentieth anniversary). The Daytime Carnival featured performances by Las K-narias, Orquesta La Sabrosa, and DJs Toni Bob and Ruymán Melián, among others. Given today's events, all indications are that both events are here to stay.