A carnival in the Canaries: Party on in Gran Canaria

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Very few tourists consider the Canary Islands for a dose of February Mardi Gras
But Gran Canaria, the third largest of the Spanish 小島s, has a carnival culture
?Its 資本／首都 city Las Palmas reverberates to 派手に宣伝するs and dancing every February

Published: 08:36 BST, 28 March 2017 | Updated: 08:36 BST, 28 March 2017

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On Canteras Beach in Las Palmas, 資本／首都 of Gran Canaria, a bizarre funeral is taking place. Women dressed in 未亡人's 少しのd are wailing in Oscar-worthy 陳列する，発揮するs of grief. They are crying about the death of a sardine.

And that's not the only strange thing about this 行列, with trumpeters playing the Eighties 激しく揺する classic The Final Countdown as a jazzy funeral dirge.

This event 示すs the end of four weeks of festivities in LasPalmas, when, as in many parts of Spain and South America, an effigy of the fish is burnt to 代表する the end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent.

Colours and 形態／調整s: The island of Gran Canaria is a いっそう少なく-known 選択 for Carnival

The 資本／首都 comes alive: Las Palmas is a city of いつかs unappreciated style and culture

Woof: Even the dogs get dressed for carnival

In Britain we have Pancake Day to use up the fat that is banned during the Lenten 急速な／放蕩な, but in the Hispanic world, they go in for Bacchanalian merry-making.

The 主題 for this year is Eternal Spring, celebrating the city's benign 気候, where the 気温 rarely 落ちるs below 20c.

The tradition of carnival in the Canaries can be traced 支援する to 1556 when Venetian merchants brought masked parties to the island. Everyone is encouraged to dress up, even those only watching the 非常に／多数の floats parading through the city.

This year they are channelling Flower 力／強力にする, encouraging people to d on bellbottoms, John Lennon glasses, kaftans and do the hippy, hippy shake.

Carnival is from this Friday until March 5, but the 最高潮の場面s are concentrated in the last two 週末s. Most events are 解放する／自由な, but the 祝祭 to find the Carnival Queen is the hot ticket, with extravagant 衣装s 反映するing the island's strong 関係s to South America and the Caribbean.

Join the （人が）群がる: 衣装d revellers 過程 through the streets of Las Palmas every February

The Queen of the Carnival's nemesis is the 平等に popular Drag Queen 祝祭, where the island's menfolk strut their stuff in outrageous, barely there outfits.

It all ends on March 5 with the burying of the sardine and a 花火s 陳列する，発揮する. The party's over ... or is it??

Those cunning Canarians stagger the carnivals in the other towns so that as Las?Palmas's festival の近くにs, the fun starts in the south of the island in Maspalomas. So you can take a 深い breath and go for it all over again.

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More （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on Gran Canaria at grancanaria.com, and the Las Palmas Carnival at lpacarnaval.com/en.?

EasyJet 飛行機で行くs to Las?Palmas Gran Canaria from ￡55 return (easyjet.com). Stay in Las PalmasPenthouse, a three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment yards from Canteras beach, from ￡150 per night (laspalmaspenthouse.com).

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