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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.
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.
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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