Fiestas de San Sebastián 2025 – Agüimes
The municipality of Agüimes is celebrating the festivities in honour of San Sebastián from Friday 10th to 20th of January 2025. A celebration that has its origins in 1487, when Gran Canaria was incorporated into the Crown of Castile with a royal decree that made official the creation of the former Episcopal Lordship of Agüimes. Since then, the date has been marked on the calendar as the festival that commemorates the origin of the first town in the southeast of Gran Canaria, while the saint became the full patron saint of this municipality. 538 years later, Agüimes once again remembers its foundation with a program of events, which includes recreational and cultural activities for all tastes, including folklore, concerts, a livestock fair, the gastronomic days of Caracol (snail), and the Institutional Act of Honours and Distinctions.
The program will begin with the 14th Caracol Gastronomic Days, which will take place from 10th to 20th January. As usual, there will be the participation of several restaurants in the historic centre, which will offer, at affordable prices, the best recipes based on this mollusc. The participating establishments will be the gastrobar El Populacho, the restaurant El Guachinche, the restaurant El Cazador, the bar La Esquina, the bar San Antón, the bar café Ca Migue, the restaurant Atis Tirma and the Magec Café & Burger Bar. As a prelude, the Plaza del Rosario will host on Friday (10th), from 11:30, a culinary demonstration in which you can learn how to make traditional recipes with this food. Afterward, there will be a pairing and tasting of snails with ‘Señorío de Agüimes’ white wine.
Highlights:
10-20 January: The Gastromic Days of Caracol
11 January: Baile de Taifa at Plaza del Rosario at 21:00
12 January: Salsa and Bachata workshops at Plaza del Rosario at 17:00 | Night of Boleros at 20:00 in Municipal Theatre
13-14 January: Canarian Dance workshops at Plazoleta Orlando Hernández
18 January: Musical spectacle at Plaza del Rosario at 20:30 | Verbena (a lively festive party) at Plaza del Rosario
Monday, 20 January: Feast Day of San Sebastián
from 10:00 Livestock fair on the esplanade of the Agüimes Auditorium Theater.
at 11:30 Eucharist, followed by a religious procession with the images of San Sebastián and Ntra. Sra. del Rosario
