On no account neglect to visit the most important tourist
attractions on the island. If you want to know more about them (location,
opening hours), "click" on the corresponding picture. You can also access
the places of interest through the map of Lanzarote; this will enable
you to find their exact location on the island.
The National Park of Timanfaya is a volcanic field
where visitors can discover a great variety of geological phenomena
as well as a vast array of some 180 different plant species...
The César Manrique Foundation
is the island’s cultural centre
par excellence that has won international recognition, not only
because it houses some of the works of the world famous artist
himself...
Jameos del Agua, one of the most interesting
galleries of connecting caves and underground grottoes in the world lies to
the north of Lanzarote, at the foot of the volcano Monte de la
Corona which erupted around 3,000 years ago...
El Golfo -the Gulf- is the name of the crater
(today reduced to half of its original size) with a green lagoon, colouring caused
by the algae that inhabit its waters...
Mirador del Río. This unique lookout point
is located in the northern part of the island on top of a cliff, 479 metres above sea
level...
La Cueva de los Verdes, located in the north of
Lanzarote, under the volcano Monte de la Corona, forms part of a
spectacular system of underground tunnels (los jameos) 6 km.
long,...
The Cactus Garden is one of César Manrique's last works. The artist turned an old quarry into an impressive cactus plantation...
Teguise, the capital of Lanzarote until
1852, has become one of the most important tourist and cultural
centres on the island...
The Museum of Contemporary Art is located in
Arrecife, in the San Jose Castle, a fortress built between 1776
and 1779 by King Carlos III..
Casa/Museo del Campesino. The Peasant’s Monument and the
Casa Museum were created to immortalize the difficult
labour of Lanzarote’s rural community whose endeavours
to extract bounty from the arid earth can be seen in the
landscape of La Geria.
Santa Bárbara Castle, now the Museum of
Emigration, sits on the Guanapay mountain, to the east of Teguise.
It was built in the 16th
century as a watchtower for the coast...
El Grifo Wine Museum, is housed in ancient bodegas
that date back to 1775 and were built on top of the solidified
lava issued from the volcanic eruption of that century...
Ethnographic Museum Tanit. Over the years, José Ferrer Perdomo and
his wife Remy de Quintana Reyes, founders of this museum,
have been collecting and...
Canary Cetacean Museum. The Canary Cetacean Museum invites you
to discover one of the most important collections in Europe
– the result of more than 20 years of research on
the whales and dolphins of the Canaries.
Special thanks to Cámara Oficial de Comercio, Industria y Navegación de Las Palmas.
