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

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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12/05/2016

Marine verses

Can pictures and letters come to life? Well, miracles do happen after all. Last century, Néstor de la Torre Martín Fernández, Gran Canaria’s most famous painter, created a series a paintings named Poem of the Atlantic, also known as Poema del Mar.

Landing at Las Canteras

Manolo the Dangerous guides his boat into the clear waters. Nearby, on the sand, you’ll see people walking, with some taking their first swim of the day. Whilst others breakfast on one of the promenade’s terraces. It’s another day at Las Canteras beach.

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