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César Manrique museum and foundation in his former Tahíche home.
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.
International Museum of Contemporary Art set in an 18th-century fortress restored by César Manrique.
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.
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.
An ethnographic museum in San Bartolomé, in the heart of Lanzarote, recreating the island's traditional rural life inside an 18th-century cellar.
The house where José Saramago spent his last years, library and study kept as he left them; closed on Sundays.
Parish church holding Lanzarote's foremost ecclesiastical heritage, in the best-preserved old town of the Canaries.
Fortress atop the Guanapay volcano beside Teguise, housing a museum devoted to the history of piracy in Lanzarote.
César Manrique's last house-studio in Haría, kept as he left it, with his work and its palm-tree garden.
17th-century church in the heart of Arrecife, with a wooden ceiling.
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.
At the Peña de Tajaste, in the geographical centre of Lanzarote, stands Fecundidad, the sculpture designed by César Manrique and built by Jesús Soto in 1968. Its fifteen metres are assembled from the water tanks of old ships, welded together and painted white against black volcanic ground. It is a tribute to the island farmer and to the water that made his agriculture possible. The Casa Museo del Campesino stands beside it.
PERMANENTLY CLOSED. Former ethnographic museum on a 19th-century farming estate in Tiagua (Teguise), Lanzarote.
A wine museum at the heart of the El Grifo winery in San Bartolomé, with origins documented to 1775 and a collection of historic winemaking machinery amid the vineyards of La Geria.
A Monument to Fertility over 15 m high by César Manrique with Jesús Soto, at the geographic centre of Lanzarote, beside a free-entry ethnographic museum.
A villa-museum carved into a former volcanic quarry, with lava caves, tunnels, secret passages and a lagoon, conceived by César Manrique and Jesús Soto.
Monumento natural de La Corona is a protected natural area of almost 1,800 hectares in the municipality of Haría, in the north of Lanzarote. It takes in the volcano of the same name and the malpaís, the badlands left by its eruption more than 21,000 years ago. The cone rises to 600 metres and the whole formation runs for almost ten kilometres, crossed by waymarked walking routes.
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