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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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Cast of Sala Scala in Gran Canaria. Photo: Sala Scala

New Sala Scala in Gran Canaria: Local Gastronomy and a Show Reflecting the Island's Essence

Origen: An Unforgettable Experience for the Warm Nights of Gran Canaria.

Gran Canaria opens its heart once again, inviting you to discover the renewed Sala Scala—a venue where every night transforms into a unique celebration with the show Origen. This unforgettable experience seamlessly blends culture, gastronomy, and art, creating lasting memories of your stay on our miniature continent.


Faro de Maspalomas (Maspalomas lighthouse)

Let your imagination soar towards Maspalomas

Your imagination mirrors these seagulls, always ready to soar off on the slightest breeze. 

Their flight expresses their lust for life against the backdrop of the sky and in this case also highlighting the silhouette of the Maspalomas Lighthouse, in the south of Gran Canaria. This picture portrays a fleeting instant in more than a century of lights, stretching back to that distant day in 1890 when the light projected its first beam.


Puerto de Mogán, Gran Canaria

El Puerto de Mogán is the kingdom of sea and land

The sun sets the pace for life in southern Gran Canaria, blurring the borders between worlds

The sun is the clock that sets the pace for life in these waters, and its rays are the hands that show the hours and minutes as they tick by. The skipjack tuna that surge through Mogán’s water in the summer only rise to the surface in daylight to feed off the yellow tails, headstanders or mackerel. As soon as the light begins to fail, they return to the depths. They are children of the light, bound to it. Their force is titanic, capable of travelling up to one hundred kilometres a day, although they are lost without the day’s guiding light.


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