Tenerife Carnaval: Sábado de Piñata

Miss Piggy stops to gets a light during the kids' carnaval parade in Santa Cruz (early 1990s)Santa Cruz hopes to recuperate the Carnaval de Día (Daytime Carnaval), with a number of events to take place today, Sábado de Piñata (Piñata Saturday).

From midday, five areas of the capital (Plaza Weyler, Plaza de Candelaria, Calle de La Noria, Plaza de Europa and Plaza del Príncipe) will be staging various concerts, featuring; Orishas and Idaira, Edwin Rivera and Billos Caracas Boys, Pepe Benavente and Orquesta Gomeray; Village Boyz and Enrique Furiati among others.

This is all being promoted as a family day, though it might be to encourage noise during the day instead of at night. :)

It certainly isn't going to stop the noise inside the city with all those concerts going on and with the planned "bombazos" (a sort of 12 mega-firework salute) that will almost literally blast off the day.

Later, at 2 p.m. there is to be a "sound spectacle" with more daytime fireworks being set off in the Plaza de España.

Also advertised are "rains of colour" from six confetti canons to be installed in the Plaza de La Candelaria, Plaza de Europa and Plaza del Príncipe.

And entrance to all of these shows and concerts is free.

The final Saturday of carnaval is also traditionally the day of the children's carnaval parade, which, this year is listed as being on between 6 and 7 p.m.

(Above) A float, perhaps the junior queen, at the kids' carnaval parade in Santa Cruz (early 1990s)

(Top left) Strangely KKK looking costumes from the kids' carnaval parade in Santa Cruz (early 1990s)

(Left) Elephants never ... Forget prancing down the main streets of Santa Cruz (early 1990s)

The bad news is that the weather prediction for this weekend in Tenerife (for Friday and Saturday, at least), is for chubascos fuertes (heavy showers).

Gran fiesta para toda la familia el Sábado de Piñata