Fiestas of San Antonio El Grande (Patronal Festival of Mogán)
Mogán's main patronal festival honouring San Antonio, filling the old village with a solemn Mass and procession, a colourful romería (pilgrimage) in traditional Canarian dress, parranda folk-music groups and open-air verbena street parties. A lively window into local Canarian culture away from the resort coast.
Mogán village sits inland, a few kilometres up from the coast, and this is where its main patronal festival unfolds each summer around the first weekend of August. It centres on San Antonio, with a solemn Mass and a procession that carries the saint through the steep, narrow streets, blessing animals and farm produce along the way. The part most worth catching is the romería: a pilgrimage where locals turn out in traditional Canarian dress, with decorated carts, parranda folk groups and bagpipers playing as they walk down through the valley.
By night the village fills for the verbenas, open-air parties that run late with live music, fireworks and plenty of dancing. Entry is free, the crowd is mostly islanders rather than holidaymakers, and it's a fair drive from the resort beaches. Worth it if you fancy seeing a side of Gran Canaria the coast rarely shows.
Source: https://www.festivalesdeespana.com/en/festival/fiestas-san-antonio-el-grande-mogan