Centres of Art, Culture and Tourism
In Lanzarote you will find a large variety of tourist attractions, whose visit is almost compulsory if you wish to enjoy your saty on this island and meanwhile enrich yourself. Cultural entertaiment has been structured by the Council of Lanzarote´s Centre of Art and Culture under seven indescribably attractive designs. A unit of scenic, customary and natural landmarks whose visit is never disappointing.
In the north "Los Jameos del Agua" and "La Cueva de los Verdes" unite unusual rough volcanic tracks with the most exquisite art, integrating colours, textures, forms, animal species and plantas, as genuine as they are surprising. Continuing on our way and at the most northern end we shal find the "Mirador del RÃo", a privileged palce allowing vast views over the ocean and the "Chinijo Archipelago". Nature undoubtedly skinfully improvised this balcony at the service of makind.
The descent to the south, where the mild climate allows to cover one of our planet's most astonishing journey is a must: the visit to "Las Montañas del Fuego". The Timanfaya National Park is a monument to the volcnoc immensity from which the island surged. surrounded by cones and dross, lava and ashes the traveller will discover the power of nature's strength and inscrutability.
There still are places to visit, such as the essential encounter with the past of a people who convert a waste of land into riches: we shall find it at the "Casa del Campesino" or at such unprecedented agricultural landscapes as "El JardÃn de Cactus" or "La Geria".
"El Castillo de San José", remote remains of a history of conquest, shelters in its halls and under its battlements pieces of modern art which will help us to present times easily escaped from while touring the island of Lanzarote
Although the building is apparently excavated on the rock, the truth is that it is covered by it, in a way of covering and integrating it into the enviroment, respecting Manrique's philosophy.
the construction of "Jameos del Agua", the first tourist centre designed by César Manrique, on the Lanzarote landscape.
. Tha Cave of Los Verdes has been fit out only with stairs and hand rails along the corridor but t has become one of the most impactant touristic centres of the island becouse of its natural beauty.
The Cactus Garden is an excellent example of how to recover a deteriorated space because it was built on an old quarry of volcanic ashes extraction
The Castle of San José was built between 1776 and 1779 on the seacoast near Arrecife to sight the arrival of pirates to the island and at the same time employ the people of the island,
The Peasant Monument also known as the Monument to Fertility, was created by César Manrique with water tanks from old fishing boats and elevated onto a rock platform.
The volcanic action has been the principal cause for geological formation in Lanzarote, that has its origin about nineteen million years ago and makes it the oldest island of the Canary Archipelago