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Sculpture of the Greetingman in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria island

02/01/2026

The Greetingman welcomes travellers arriving in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

The sculpture, located in Plaza de Canarias, in front of Santa Catalina Quay, symbolizes the close relationship between the Republic of Korea and Gran Canaria.

Visitors to the port area of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will encounter a six-meter-tall, two-meter-wide figure weighing two tonnes, made of aluminium with a steel inner structure. It is impossible to miss, and you can’t help but lift your gaze when standing before it. This is the Greetingman, a donation from the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to commemorate sixty years of Korean presence at the Port of Las Palmas and seventy years of diplomatic relations between Spain and Korea.

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San Gregorio, Telde

14/11/2019

San Gregorio, the tale continues

The neighbourhood of San Gregorio de Telde, in Gran Canaria, is an exciting blend of history, architecture, commerce and restaurants.

The sign on a small and inviting shop announcing the sale of both music and fishing gear in one synthesises the ability of the neighbourhood of San Gregorio in Telde, Gran Canaria, to surprise and excite. It is bustling with life, a place where a highly important heritage goes hand in hand with a great shopping area and a range of restaurant establishments, offering visitors an all-enveloping, and possibly unexpected, experience at this location to the southeast of the island.

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