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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.
An 18th-century chapel in old Icod, known for the dried caiman behind the «Lizard of Angustias» legend. TEMPORARILY CLOSED: the facade and the square are visible from outside.
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.
A church in the centre of La Oliva begun in the late sixteenth century, with three naves, side chapels and a free standing bell tower of black volcanic stone seen from the edge of the village. Inside, the mudéjar timber work and the contrast between whitewashed walls and dark stone stand out. It is a stop on the Ruta de los Coroneles, with the Casa de los Coroneles, La Cilla and Casa Mané, all within walking distance. Its setting on Plaza de la Iglesia is quiet and open.
A seventeenth-century church in the centre of Pájara, facing the town hall, famous for a carved stone portal covered in serpents, suns, birds and plumed heads. The imagery has long been linked to Aztec art, though the argument is far from settled. It is a listed monument and the set piece of inland Fuerteventura.
A circular two storey defensive tower built around 1700 beside the harbour of El Cotillo, in La Oliva. It now works as a cultural venue, tourist office and coastal viewpoint.
The Parque escultórico Puerto del Rosario brings together more than a hundred sculptures in different styles and materials, spread across the streets, squares and roundabouts of the capital of Fuerteventura. The works come from the successive international sculpture symposia held since 2001, with artists from many countries, and they turn the urban fabric of the town into an open-air museum.
A circular fortification of volcanic stone in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, built in the first half of the 17th century. It was the second most important stronghold in the city's defensive system and is popularly known as the Castillo Negro. It has been listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural since 1949 and passed into municipal hands in 1982. Its interior is not open to visitors; the exterior stands in full view, between the Auditorio de Tenerife and the Parque Marítimo.
The archaeological and ethnographic complex of Buracas occupies the lower stretch of the Barranco del Corchete, in the municipality of Garafía on La Palma. Discovered in 1941, it brings together several settlements of natural caves set out on three levels, three groups of petroglyphs with geometric motifs and a number of burial grounds. It is an open-air site, reached on foot by a signposted path from Las Tricias.
A watchtower raised over the sea in 1577 and rebuilt in 1638, popularly known as the Castillo de San Cristóbal and listed as a Historic Artistic Monument in 1922. It formed part of the defensive system guarding the southern approach to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and stayed in military use until the nineteenth century. Today it stands off the San Cristóbal fishing quarter, reached along the Avenida Marítima on foot or by bicycle.
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.
One of the oldest and largest farming estates on Lanzarote, in Tiagua, now an ethnographic museum that preserves gofio windmills, a wine cellar and the tools of traditional country life.
The Renaissance-Mudejar mother church of Santa Cruz de La Palma, founded around 1500 on the Plaza de España, at the heart of the old town.
A 16th-century fortress in Garachico, Tenerife, the only building to survive the 1706 eruption.
A 19th-century lighthouse on the northwestern tip of Fuerteventura, near El Cotillo, now home to a museum devoted to traditional Majorero fishing.
Interpretation centre and cultural park in south-western El Hierro, focused on the Bimbache rock engravings. It offers guided walking and vehicle excursions across the site.
A salt museum set within the only active saltworks on Fuerteventura, by the sea in Antigua. It shows traditional salt-making and lets you be a salt maker for a day.
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.
An Aboriginal communal granary with more than 300 silos carved into the rock in Santa María de Guía, in use until the European conquest of the 15th century.
Open-air ethnographic museum in Hermigua with the island's largest private collection, an ecological farm and a closing tasting of local Gomeran products.
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.
A heritage house on Calle Portería, in the historic San Francisco quarter of Telde, which opened its doors on 30 September 2026 as a cultural venue run by the town council's Department of Culture. It is intended to host exhibitions by local and Canarian artists, book presentations and reading clubs, lectures, sessions on Telde's heritage and history, workshops and meetings of cultural associations.
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.
The Centro de Visitantes de Masca, the visitor centre of the hamlet, stands close to the plaza of La Piedra and holds the information on the village and on the Parque Rural de Teno. It is also the gateway to the camino del barranco de Masca: the access check is carried out here, bookings and documents are verified, and staff lend out the helmet that is returned at the end of the route.
Pre-Hispanic Majo settlement built in dry stone inside the Malpaís Grande, in the Pozo Negro valley in the municipality of Antigua. More than a hundred structures survive, among them the semi-subterranean casas hondas, with an interpretation centre at the edge of the site. This is an open-air archaeological site, not an inhabited village.
Free Cabildo house-museum in Telde, Gran Canaria, devoted to the León y Castillo brothers. A fine stop to explore 19th-century Canarian history amid period furniture and art.
A 1541 stone fortress on La Isleta in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, now a museum showing work by sculptor Martín Chirino. One of the capital's best-loved historic landmarks.
Leading modern-art museum of the Canaries, in a historic Vegueta building.
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