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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.
The Mirador Montaña de La Breña is a viewpoint on the mountain that gives it its name, within the municipality of Breña Baja, on the island of La Palma. It is reached along Calle la Montaña, in the upper part of the municipality, and its whole purpose is the panorama of the surrounding landscape, taken in from the high ground itself. A simple stop to add to an unhurried tour of Breña Baja.
Mirador Llano de Las Ventas is an astronomical viewpoint in the municipality of Breña Baja, on La Palma, standing at around 1,320 metres and looking out over the island's eastern coast. It is fitted with a marker post that points to the Pole Star, a planisphere for locating the main circumpolar constellations, and several interpretive panels. It belongs to the island network of sixteen astronomical viewpoints.
Playa de Puntalarga is a small bay on the coastline of Fuencaliente de La Palma, about a hundred metres long and twenty metres wide, with a mix of sand and callao pebbles. Small rocky outcrops shelter it from the sea and the swell stays moderate. A natural rock pool lies right beside the beach, and the whole corner is ringed by fishermen's huts, with fishermen often at work there.
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.
The Museo de la Casa Roja occupies an early twentieth century manor house in Villa de Mazo, on La Palma, and is laid out over two floors. One holds the Centro Divulgatorio del Corpus, the only state museum devoted to the festival, with reproductions, documents, illustrations and photographs of the arches, carpets and walkways that dress the streets of the municipality. The upper floor houses the embroidery museum.
The Museo LM Arte Colección occupies a traditional Canarian house from the second half of the eighteenth century, on calle Obispo Rey Redondo in the historic centre of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. It opened on 23 December 2021 and shows the body of Canarian and international art assembled by Luz Marina Lorenzo, a collector born in La Palma, which runs to close on six hundred pieces.
The Museo del Pescador occupies the premises of the Cofradía de Pescadores Gran Poder de Dios, on calle Las Lonjas in Puerto de la Cruz, beside the fishing quay. Its Casa Museo brings together a large collection of ship models, ranging from traditional Canarian rowing boats and faluas, tuna vessels and purse seiners to schooners, sail training ships, steamers and the old island mail boats, alongside working objects such as an old scale.
A museum devoted to the aviation history of Lanzarote, inside the grounds of César Manrique airport, in the municipality of San Bartolomé. Because it sits within the airport precinct itself, a visit fits naturally around an arrival on or a departure from the island. It is worth confirming access conditions by telephone before going, especially if the visit has to fit between one flight and another.
The Centro de Arte La Regenta is the exhibition space of the Government of the Canary Islands in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Founded in 1987, it is a public institution devoted to the dissemination of contemporary art. Alongside its exhibition programme it runs a Visual Arts Production Space, a documentation centre, lecture cycles and workshops for education and cultural action.
The Museo de La Zafra, a museum of tomato growing and rural life in Vecindario, gathers the most important aspects of the recent history of Santa Lucía de Tirajana: the cultivation and packing of tomatoes in the lower part of the municipality. The museum covers more than 4,000 square metres arranged in twelve rooms that take the visitor through production, packing, transport and export.
The Centro de Interpretación del Aloe Vera in Yaiza is one of three such centres that Aloe Plus Lanzarote runs on Lanzarote, alongside those in Punta Mujeres and Arrieta. Staff accompany visitors along the route and explain why the island's climate and volcanic soils favour a high quality aloe, how an aloe leaf is cut properly and how its fresh gel can be used at home. Guided tours are offered in several languages.
The Museo de la Seda Las Hilanderas, a silk museum and working workshop on Calle Manuel Taño in El Paso, La Palma, occupies a historic house. It holds a collection of pieces that sums up the Ruta de la Seda, and in the same rooms the craftswomen work in front of visitors using very old methods and tools, just as in the sixteenth century. The workshop describes itself as the only one in the Canaries and the last in Europe to keep the process entirely by hand.
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.
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