The presentation of the more than one hundred acts that make up the program of the Great Festivals of July 2023 in Puerto de la Cruz confirms the tourist city as one of the main festive and cultural centers of the island of Tenerife. “If we explained in detail everything that this program contains, it would take two or three hours,” the mayor of the municipality stressed this Tuesday, June 27. Marco González (PSOE)just before completing some of the main milestones of these 30 days of religious fervor, culture, leisure and traditions in honor of the Virgen del Carmen, the Great Power of God and San Telmo. A month in which days of faith and recollection are mixed with massive street parties, music festivals with world-class artists, craft and gastronomy fairs, traditions sustained by the people and unique settings, such as Lake Martiánez or the fishing pier.
González stressed that these parties show the Cross port as “a unique city, full of identity” and also ready to stay at the forefront. Capable of congregating thousands of people in the massive boat of the Virgen del Carmen and San Telmo, next Tuesday, July 11; to organize the reading of the proclamation and a dance of magicians in an empty pool in Lago Martiánezor to offer in just 20 days a great festival of reggaeton and urban music, with Archangel, Justin Quiles or Mike Towers; the Cook Music Fest, with Rubén Blades, Olga Tañón or María Becerraand the Festival Canarias Jazz & More, with Carmen Souza, Caramelo de Cuba or Nik West. A city that maintains the sardine, the cucaña or the chocolate, and that unites its three main religious symbols with the artistic work of César Manrique in the advertising poster of its major festivals.
The author of the poster is Jonas Emmanuel, an artist to whom the Consistory of Porto resorted after declaring the contest void. In his work «the fervor for our images is combined with the imagination and genius of Manrique that we know so well and that we are so grateful for in Cross port».
This year the day dedicated to great power of god It will be on Sunday, July 9, the date on which El Viejito, as the image is popularly known, will tour the main streets of the city, according to the older sister of this brotherhood, Elena Cid. The representative of the Brotherhood of the Virgen del Carmen, jesus gonzalezrecalled that the big day of the boat will be Tuesday, July 11, for which he asked for everyone’s collaboration to make it a “solemn and wonderful” day. Santiago Socasolder brother of the San Telmo Brotherhood, recalled that this image will also go out to sea that day, but it will live an emotional day this Sunday, July 2, “with the traditional procession from its hermitage to the Parish of Peña de Francia».
The advertising poster uses a work by César Manrique to honor the Great Power of God, San Telmo and the Virgen del Carmen
Also present at the presentation were the 20 young women who aspire to become the Queen of the Great Holidays of July 2023, at a gala to be held on Thursday, July 6 next to the Monument to the Sea in the Costa Martiánez Tourist Complex. Tomorrow, the large empty pool of the Lake will also be the unusual setting for the reading of the proclamation, by the César Manrique Foundation, represented by Francisco Galante, member of the advisory board of the institution that oversees the care of the work of the Lanzarote artist más universal.
The empty glass of the pool of the great Lake will also host for the first time the traditional dance of magicians, on Saturday, July 9. Tables can be reserved through the platform www.tickety.es.
The main religious acts are concentrated in the municipality between July 2 and 16
Marco Gonzalez He thanked everyone for their dedication to making the Port “an example of care for traditions in such a special month”, and recalled that these festivities “are only possible thanks to the work of thousands of people, from brotherhoods to municipal services”. , going through all those responsible for keeping traditions alive that already fly in the shape of the flag of the Great Festivals of July, in the Plaza de Europa.
The most anticipated days
June 29
The large empty pool of Lago Martiánez will become an unusual setting for the inaugural act of the Great Festivals of July, which will include the official presentation of the 20 candidates for festival queen and the proclamation, by the César Manrique Foundation, through the professor of the University of La Laguna Francisco Galante.
July 1 and 2
On Saturday, July 1 and Sunday, July 2, the Cook Music Festival begins, which takes over the entire program of the Reaggeton Beach Festival 2023 in Tenerife. Sunday the 2nd will also be the day of San Telmo, when he leaves in procession from the hermitage to the Parish of Peña de Francia.
July 6th
Lago Martiánez will also serve to host the Election Gala of the Queen of the Great Festivals of July
July 8
The Canarian dinner and the popular dance of magicians will also be held, for the first time, inside Lago Martiánez.
July 9th
The day dedicated to the Great Power of God will be on Sunday, July 9, the date on which El Viejito will tour the main streets of the city.
July 11
On Tuesday, July 11, the port pier will be the scene of a festive day that will live its peak moment with “one of the most crowded boats of the Virgen del Carmen in all of Spain, accompanied by San Telmo”, according to the Porto City Council.
July 20, 21 and 22
On July 20, 21 and 22, the big days of the Cook Music Fest, on the pier esplanade, and the Canarias Jazz & Más Festival, which is also held in Lago Martiánez, will coincide in Puerto de la Cruz. The third edition of the Cook will bring to the city on the 20th Villano Antillano, Emilia Mernes, The Queens and Sharonne; On the 21st they will be María Becerra, Omar Montes, Ana Mena, El Taiger and Ledes Díaz, and it will close on the 22nd with Rubén Blades, Olga Tañón, Joseph Fonseca, Tony Tun Tun, Renzzo ElSelector and La Sabrosa.
