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Calatrava architectural icon by the sea in Santa Cruz.
Seafront Marian sanctuary, patron saint of the Canaries.
Sea caves and a black-sand beach after a short coastal path.
Living volcanic landscape with the bus Route of the Volcanoes.
César Manrique museum and foundation in his former Tahíche home.
History museum in the Vegueta old town, Las Palmas.
Archaeology museum on the pre-Hispanic culture of La Gomera.
Archaeology museum on the Benahoarita culture in Los Llanos de Aridane.
César Manrique's cactus garden in Guatiza, Lanzarote.
César Manrique viewpoint over El Río and La Graciosa.
Nature and archaeology museum in central Santa Cruz.
Mirador de Izcagua stands in the El Pinar area of Puntagorda, in the north-west of La Palma, right beside the Mercadillo del Agricultor farmers' market. The website of the La Palma Biosphere Reserve presents it as a set of floating viewpoints: walkways edged with glass railings that reach out over the ravine and give a sensation of flight. It is reached by car from the village centre heading north, along the camino del Pinar.
Senderos de La Aldea is the network of walking routes in the municipality of La Aldea de San Nicolás, in the west of Gran Canaria, promoted by its town council. It gathers more than 300 kilometres of paths arranged in four levels of difficulty, from easy to extreme, across a landscape of pronounced relief. The routes cross mountains, valleys, ravines and beaches within the municipal area.
Senderismo La Palma is a guided walking service on the island of La Palma, based in Los Llanos de Aridane. The routes it advertises include an interpretive geological walk around the Tajogaite volcano, the viewpoints of La Cumbrecita, a visit to the telescopes at the Roque de Los Muchachos and an astronomy tour built around stargazing. Activities are arranged by telephone, WhatsApp or email.
An urban beach of volcanic sand beside the capital's Avenida Marítima, at the foot of its historic seafront.
Historic garden in Puerto de la Cruz, set around an old estate in the Orotava Valley, home to the oldest orchid collection in the Canary Islands.
A Cabildo recreation and camping area beside the Las Niñas reservoir in Tejeda, inside the Nublo Rural Park, with pine woods, walking trails and barbecue spots.
Protected area and Biosphere Reserve covering the mountain massif at the north-eastern tip of Tenerife, some 14,500 hectares of ridges, ravines and hamlets linked by footpaths.
A 204-hectare public estate of the Cabildo in Teror, inside the Doramas Rural Park, with laurel forest, educational trails and visits by prior permit.
A 7,538-hectare Natural Park in north-west Gran Canaria, spanning Artenara, Agaete and La Aldea, protecting one of the island's best preserved natural pine forests.
Museum dedicated to Majorero cheese in Antigua, Fuerteventura.
National park and visitor centre in the heart of La Palma.
A 16th-century fortified compound in Adeje's old town, built by the Ponte family to guard their sugar mill. A fire left it in ruins in 1902, but the tower, the gateway and much of the enclosure are still standing. The south-eastern section has been restored and can be visited free of charge on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.
Military history museum in the 18th-century Fuerte de Almeyda in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with rooms of flags, weapons, uniforms and dioramas.
Birthplace of novelist Benito Pérez Galdós in the Triana district of Las Palmas, now a house-museum with guided visits and free entry.
Archaeological museum in Vegueta with the largest collection on the pre-Hispanic Guanche culture of the Canaries.
One of Europe's most spectacular aquariums, home to the world's largest curved viewing window onto the deep sea.
Six stepped pyramids surrounded by gardens and the enigma that fascinated Thor Heyerdahl.
The largest water park in the Canary Islands, with slides for every age and one of Europe's few dolphinariums.
Museo del Puro Palmero stands in the Parque de Los Álamos, in San Pedro, within the municipality of Breña Alta on La Palma. It is devoted to the puro palmero, the cigar-making tradition preserved on the island, and frames the visit as a journey from the distant past to the present, with attention to the tobacco harvest and to the handmade production of the cigar.
The Casa-Museo Antonio Padrón. Centro de Arte Indigenista occupies, in Gáldar, the painter's family house and the pavilion that served as his studio, where his work was left untouched after his death. It belongs to the museum network of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, which conserves, researches and makes known that painting and its cultural setting. The staircase joining the two floors holds two murals by the artist, Niños haciendo cometas and Camellos de la escalera.
The Museo de La Fortaleza, at La Sorrueda in Santa Lucía de Tirajana, is the visitor centre for the archaeological area of La Fortaleza, a pre-Hispanic settlement in the same municipality. Its main hall combines traditional museography with technology and hyperrealistic scenography, and the route continues through a central courtyard, an audiovisual room and a terrace viewpoint that looks out over the setting of the excavation.
The Roque de los Muchachos Visitor Centre stands at 2,426 metres above sea level in the municipality of Garafía, beside the international astrophysics observatories on the highest point of La Palma. It is laid out as four areas: a welcome room with reception, auditorium, shop and an interactive table on the entrails of the telescopes, plus three exhibition rooms devoted to the sky, to the universe and to the Garafía area.
The Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno occupies the house that took in the writer when he reached Fuerteventura in 1924, banished by the Rivera dictatorship. It stands in the centre of the old Puerto Cabras, today Puerto del Rosario, and keeps the feel of a bourgeois home of the last century, with fine wood, heavy drapes and period devices such as a typewriter and a phonograph.
The Museo Diocesano de Arte Sacro of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is housed in the rooms that open onto the Patio de los Naranjos of the Catedral de Canarias. It shows part of the artistic heritage gathered by the cathedral, including work by the sculptor Luján Pérez and the painter Juan de Miranda alongside pieces of national and international standing. The cathedral is visited together with the museum, on one route.
The Museo de Artesanía Iberoamericana de Tenerife occupies the former Dominican convent of San Benito Abad in the Villa de La Orotava. The building keeps its stone entrance arch, the cloister, the timber ceilings and the stone staircase, with work by the Canarian architect, sculptor and gilder Antonio de Orbarán. It reopened as a museum in 1991 and holds more than ten thousand pieces of Iberoamerican and Spanish craftwork.
An interpretation centre housed in the old village casino of El Pinar, at a key point in the south of El Hierro. Its panels explain how the island was formed and which geological stages it has passed through, with a section on how the local population has managed its geological resources. It is run by the island company Meridiano and has a shop and toilet. Bus line 2, which links El Pinar with San Andrés and Valverde, stops within reach.
A Benahoarita site in the final stretch of the Barranco de San Juan, in the Los Galguitos district of San Andrés y Sauces, inside the Las Nieves natural park. Its core is a huge natural cave more than sixty metres wide that was lived in for at least two thousand years. Around it lie dozens of caves, three burial grounds and a small station of rock engravings, together with a visitor centre completed in 2019.
The Castillo de La Virgen crowns the cliff above the Barranco de Las Nieves, on the northern edge of the old town of Santa Cruz de La Palma. It was never a working military fort. It grew out of the town festival, and its battlements are the stage for the Dialogue between the Castle and the Ship during the Bajada de la Virgen. The rest of the time it serves as a quiet balcony over the rooftops, the harbour and the Atlantic.
Fuencaliente winery known for its volcanic Malvasía wines, with visits in southern La Palma.
Zoological park and animal refuge in Breña Alta, with birds, primates and reptiles amid greenery.
Working sea salt flats and nature reserve in Fuencaliente.
A natural volcanic pool in El Golfo (Frontera, El Hierro), with a turquoise basin beneath a basalt arch, parking and a wooden sun deck.
Laurel-forest national park (World Heritage) and its visitor centre.
Spain's largest botanical garden, in Tafira, Gran Canaria.
A mountain recreation area on the north western slope of Tenerife, above a thousand metres, set in Canary pine forest mixed with faya, tree heath and Canary holly, the species of the island's laurel cloud forest. Access is along the TF-344 road, taking the turning at kilometre 8.8 at the spot known as Choza Casa de la Pradera and then following the El Lagar track. No public transport reaches the site, so you need your own vehicle.
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