Festivals in Puerto de la Cruz

Local festivals of Puerto de la Cruz

The best-known celebrations in Puerto de la Cruz are the Great July Festivals, vinculadas al Gran Poder de Dios, la Virgen del Carmen y San Telmo. The City Council presented the 2025 programme as a calendar with more than one hundred proposals from 3 July to 31, with religious events, music, folklore, children's activities, historical routes, tournaments and events in spaces in the centre and on the coast.

• Name of the municipality's festivities: Great Festivals of July, with the prominence of the Great Power of God, the Virgin of Carmen and San Telmo.
• Main celebration day: In 2026, the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands establishes local public holidays as 13 July, Feast of the Great Power of God, and the 14 July, Festival of the Virgin of Carmen.
• Usual duration: The recent municipal programme occupies a good part of July; in 2025 it was developed from 3 July to 31.
• Usual places: Parish of Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia, fishing dock, Plaza del Charco, Santa Bárbara Battery, Esplanade del Muelle, Lago Martiánez, Castillo San Felipe, streets of the historic centre and La Ranilla neighbourhood.
• Associated traditions: opening proclamation and gala, procession of the Great Power of God, dock mass, cucaña, chocolate, maritime-terrestrial procession and boat of the Virgin of Carmen and San Telmo, parade, folklore, popular activities, sports, concerts and fires linked to the festive programme.
• Who participates: City Council, Festival Department, brotherhoods and brotherhoods, fishermen, associations, cultural groups, folklore groups, Portuense citizens, families and visitors.
• Local public holiday: para 2026, the officially published local days are 13 July and the 14 July; They should not be confused with the entire July holiday period.
• Other cultural events: the Carnival of Puerto de la Cruz, the patron saint festivities of the 3 May, the San Juan festivities in Playa Jardín, San Andrés with the Cacharro and Chestnut Festival, MUECA and the municipal cultural programming.
• Otras ofertas culturales: Lago Martiánez, Playa Jardín, Castillo de San Felipe, Eduardo Westerdahl Museum of Contemporary Art, Archaeological Museum, La Orotava Acclimatization Garden, Plaza del Charco, fishing pier, La Ranilla neighbourhood and the tourist and cultural agenda of Puerto de la Cruz.