PLACES OF INTEREST IN LANZAROTE
When in Lanzarote you should not miss some of the many delights nestled like jewels acroos the island.

View our map of Lanzarote for their location.



National Park of Timanfaya
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...
César Manrique Foundation
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
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
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...
Cueva de los Verdes
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,...
Jardín de Cactus
The Cactus Garden is one of César Manrique's last works. The artist turned an old quarry into an impressive cactus plantation...
Teguise
Teguise, the capital of Lanzarote until 1852, has become one of the most important tourist and cultural centres on the island...
Museum of Contemporary Art
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.
Castillo de Guanapay
Santa Bárbara Castle, now the Museum of Emigration, sits on the Guanapay mountain, to the east of Teguise. It was built in the 16 th century as a watchtower for the coast...
Wine Museum
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.

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