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Calatrava architectural icon by the sea in Santa Cruz.
Seafront Marian sanctuary, patron saint of the Canaries.
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.
Nature and archaeology museum in central Santa Cruz.
Museum dedicated to Majorero cheese in Antigua, Fuerteventura.
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.
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.
Museum centre devoted to the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, opened in 2017 in the barranco de Santos park, with an interactive permanent room.
Museum carved into the rock explaining the life of the native Canarians in the spectacular Barranco de Guayadeque.
Cultural centre for contemporary art, photography and a library in a Herzog & de Meuron building.
International Museum of Contemporary Art set in an 18th-century fortress restored by César Manrique.
Interactive science and technology museum in Parque Santa Catalina, with a digital planetarium and 3D cinema.
Ecomuseum and giant-lizard breeding centre in El Golfo, El Hierro.
Aboriginal site with the famous cave of geometric paintings.
A visitor and environmental information point inside the Los Tilos forest, next to the Barranco del Agua in the municipality of San Andrés y Sauces, in the north east of La Palma. It introduces the Canarian laurisilva, an ancient type of laurel forest that survives here in unusually good condition. The trail towards the Marcos y Cordero springs, known for its rock tunnels, starts from this area.
The MIAC occupies the castle of San José, an eighteenth-century fortress raised above the sea in Arrecife. In 1976 César Manrique drove its restoration and turned it into a contemporary art museum, keeping the original stone and inserting a modern language into it. The collection brings together work by Canarian and mainland Spanish artists of the second half of the twentieth century. It is part of the Lanzarote network of Art, Culture and Tourism Centres.
Open-air recreation of a Canary Island settlement from before the conquest, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, overlooking the Barranco de Fataga. More than a hundred life-size figures spread scenes of daily life across the site: the home, grain, livestock, healing, justice and burial rites. A small archaeological room rounds off the route and helps place what stands outside. Since the site is open ground with little shade, water, a hat and sun protection are worth packing.
Interpretation centre devoted to the volcanic cavities of La Palma, in the Todoque area within the municipality of Los Llanos de Aridane. It explains how a lava tube forms when molten rock keeps running beneath a crust that has already set, and it lets visitors walk a real section of those galleries. The surrounding landscape was reshaped by the Tajogaite eruption of 2021, which puts the story told inside into immediate context. Visits are made with prior booking.
An eighteenth century Canarian townhouse on Plaza de la Concepción in La Laguna, right beside the bell tower of the Concepción church and inside the UNESCO listed old town. It was the family home of the collector Cayetano Gómez Felipe (1902-1978), who filled it with objects from everyday island life. The rooms open onto a courtyard with wooden galleries, and the collection is shown in the very spaces it was gathered for. Easy to reach on foot, since most of the historic centre is pedestrian.
A pre-Hispanic archaeological site in Telde, carved by hand into the rock at around 300 metres above sea level. The main cave opens to the outside through four aligned doorways, which give the site its name. At the summer solstice the rising sun enters through the second doorway and lights the back wall.
Interpretation centre devoted to palm honey and guarapo, in the hamlet of Aldama in Alojera, Vallehermoso. It explains how sap is tapped from the Canary palm and reduced down into miel de palma, a craft still practised on La Gomera. The visit combines a self-guided trail through the palm grove with a guided tour of the centre, and the product can be tasted.
Cabildo-run centre on Canarian volcanism and the El Hierro UNESCO Global Geopark, in El Pinar on the road down to La Restinga. It is laid out in two buildings joined by a short interpretive path. One explains how volcanic islands are born, the other recreates the 2011 submarine eruption with light and sound.
An aloe vera interpretation centre in Punta Mujeres, in the municipality of Haría, on the road to the Jameos del Agua. Panels, an audiovisual room and a guided explanation cover the plant's history, cultivation and properties. It belongs to the Lanzarote network of aloe museums, the only one of its kind in the Canaries.
Benahoarita archaeological site in Villa de Mazo, La Palma, with ten natural caves and rock engravings. The first petroglyphs documented in the Canaries were recorded here in the 18th century.
Ethnographic museum set inside genuine cave dwellings carved into volcanic tuff, in Artenara, the highest municipality of Gran Canaria.
The Franciscan sanctuary in San Cristóbal de La Laguna that guards the image of the Cristo de La Laguna, one of the most venerated crucifixes in the Canary Islands.
An ethnographic museum in San Bartolomé, in the heart of Lanzarote, recreating the island's traditional rural life inside an 18th-century cellar.
17th-century crenellated palace in La Oliva, once home to the colonels who ruled Fuerteventura and now a cultural landmark of the island's north.
Marian sanctuary above Santa Cruz de La Palma, home to the island's patron saint and heart of the famous Bajada de la Virgen.
A pre-Hispanic necropolis on volcanic rock in Agaete, Gran Canaria, with hundreds of burial mounds left by the ancient Canarians.
The house where José Saramago spent his last years, library and study kept as he left them; closed on Sundays.
Traditional majorero house in Tiscamanita devoted to windmills and gofio milling, with a restored mill on site.
A 1937 mansion in the remote Cofete valley, now a local history museum open mornings and afternoons.
17th-century Canarian mansion in La Orotava, famous for its wooden balconies and traditional openwork craft.
Tenerife's main fine-arts museum, next to Plaza del Príncipe in Santa Cruz.
Museum of the history of Tenerife in Casa Lercaro, a 16th-century mansion in the historic centre of La Laguna.
An eighteenth-century defensive tower standing over the bay of Caleta de Fuste, in the municipality of Antigua, built to guard one of the three main harbours of Fuerteventura. It has a circular plan, two levels and walls of dark volcanic stone that were thickened to almost six metres after an attack. It has been listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural since 1949 and is now enclosed by a resort complex.
Island museum in a former Franciscan convent, spanning natural history, art and ethnography.
Restored traditional El Hierro house showing the island's crafts and rural life.
Open-air ecomuseum with seven restored Majorero houses and traditional crafts.
The four concrete pillars of the old loading crane of Hermigua, finished in 1908, still stand at the water's edge on the north coast of La Gomera. It is the most photographed sight of this shoreline and today works as a monument. Beside it the sea fills a natural pool among the rocks; this is not a sandy beach.
Baroque church in the old town of Puerto de la Cruz, built in the late 17th century, with altarpieces and a distinctive tower.
Fortress atop the Guanapay volcano beside Teguise, housing a museum devoted to the history of piracy in Lanzarote.
Historic rum distillery founded in 1884 in Arucas, with visitable cellars where barrels signed by international figures are aged.
Traditional Canarian manor house in El Sauzal housing a Tenerife wine museum, with views of the sea and Mount Teide.
César Manrique's last house-studio in Haría, kept as he left it, with his work and its palm-tree garden.
Naval museum housed in a replica of Columbus's ship Santa María, devoted to La Palma's maritime history.
15th-century mother church in Betancuria, with a sacred art museum and Gothic, Mudejar and Baroque architecture.
Interactive astronomy and science museum in La Laguna, with a planetarium and hands-on experiments.
A sixteenth century fortress on the islet that closes the bay of Arrecife, the first defensive building on Lanzarote, from 1587, when pirate and corsair raids made a stronghold necessary. Reached on foot from the seafront over the Puente de las Bolas, a drawbridge topped by two stone spheres and now the city's image. From the walls and roof terrace the view runs along the waterfront, the harbour and the Charco de San Ginés. Inside is the Museo de la Historia de Arrecife.
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