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Lanzarote to Celebrate Wine Heritage at the 2026 Wine Festival in Uga

The village of Uga will once again become the centre of Lanzarote’s wine culture this weekend as it hosts the 2026 Wine Festival, bringing together 17 of the island’s wineries for two days of wine tasting, gastronomy, music and traditional celebrations.

Lanzarote to Celebrate Wine Heritage at the 2026 Wine Festival in Uga

The village of Uga will once again become the centre of Lanzarote’s wine culture this weekend as it hosts the 2026 Wine Festival, bringing together 17 of the island’s wineries for two days of wine tasting, gastronomy, music and traditional celebrations.
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Golf is back & we love it!

The Las Palmeras Golf Society are in the swing of things again, as golf courses reopen with new health measures in place. Jean-Francois Crinquand reports. On Monday 11th May, most of the golf courses in the Canaries re-opened after two…
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Torres admits tests at origin “will not be possible”

Canarian President Ángel Victor Torres appears to have accepted that tests at origin on all tourists to the Canaries are unlikely to happen. He has also admitted that the Canarian government does not have the power to introduce tests on all…
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Mario’s Restaurant & Pizzeria

Mario's Restaurant Pizerria in Puerto Del Carmen are reopening! Their provisional opening time will be from 12:00, for any further information don't hesitate to contact them! Plus, they have a brand new website! Check it out, here. Phone:…
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Spain to open borders again next Monday

Spain's President Pedro Sánchez has announced that Spain will will open its borders to 30 European nations from next Monday, 21st June. Although the agreement applies primarily to nations in the Schengen area, the Spanish government also confirmed…
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The new normal indoors

One thing has been made very clear during the lockdown in Spain – home is a safe space for you, and for society. When you’re at home, you’re unlikely to be exposed to infection. More importantly, you are not going to infect anyone else. The…
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The third patient

Lanzarote has spent weeks with a figure of three positive cases of Covid-19, but a closer look at those cases shows that there is still a lot to learn about the disease. Two of the three are recovering in a ward at the Dr José Molina…
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Torres insists on tests at origin

Canarian President Ángel Víctor Torres has said that he will continue to fight for tests at origin for tourists who wish to come to the Canaries.  Torres told the Cadena Ser channel that this topic was one he had continually insisted on…
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La Graciosa opens for “Covid-free” tourism

La Graciosa reopens to tourists today, with ferry company Lineas Romero operating 10 daily journeys to and from the island. The ferry company announced that “the eighth Canary island is now open for all Canarian residents to enjoy.”   La…
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New school rules

Spain's ministries of Health, Education and Professional Training have presented a document that gives an glimpse of how different life will be be for schoolchildren when they return to classes in September after an unprecedented six-month…
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Masks to be part of the “new normality”

The Spanish government has ruled that mask use will remain compulsory in public places where social distancing cannot be guaranteed once the country moves into the “new normality”. The law, unchanged from the one which currently…
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Did the calima protect the Canaries?

In May's Gazette we speculated that the low incidence of coronavirus in the Canaries could have been assisted by the heavy calima (Saharan dust storm)  that caused a “mini-lockdown” three weeks before the official coronavirus lockdown. Now…
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77 Days to beat the virus: Lanzarote’s Lockdown story

On 28th of May, the two Covid 19 patients remaining in the Dr José Molina Orosa Hospital tested negative for Covid 19. For almost 24 hours, Lanzarote was free of the virus until a positive case arrived from Madrid and was immediately quarantined.…
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No special attention for eastern isles

The Canarian Government has, so far, failed to respond to requests from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura to give the two eastern islands special consideration in its crisis reconstruction plan. Lanzarote and Fuerteventura are far more reliant…
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Migrant child tests positive

A child who arrived on a patera (boat carrying migrants) last Thursday has tested positive for coronavirus. The patera was detected 20 miles off the Lanzarote coast on Thursday morning and intercepted by a Salvamar maritime rescue vessel. …
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Cutting Loose!

Hairdressers opened again in early May, and so Gazette designer Sabrina Suppers broke out of lockdown to get her hair cut at Sculpture Salon in Puerto del Carmen. First published in Gazette Life, June 1st 2020. Since Monday 4th…
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