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Zoo and rescue centre for crocodiles and other animals in Agüimes.
Large nature and animal park in La Lajita, with a botanical garden and shows.
Secluded natural pool on the coast of Buenavista del Norte, in the Teno massif area.
Natural water spring in Los Realejos, on the green northern coast of Tenerife.
Aboriginal site with the famous cave of geometric paintings.
An escape room in the El Pueblo shopping centre in Las Coloradas, Playa Blanca, with three original games: The Magic Market, set in a magical marketplace; Tropical Trouble, a detective case at an ice cream parlour; and Project Atlantis, about the curse of Poseidon's trident. Games run in English or Spanish for groups of 2 to 6, and are recommended from age 10.
The escape rooms inside the Holiday World Maspalomas leisure park in the south of Gran Canaria: four rooms on the park grounds, Sujeto 386, El mayor espectáculo del mundo, 50's Rock and Roll and El perro de Baskerville. Each lasts 45 minutes, takes 2 to 6 players and is played in Spanish or English. Children aged 10 to 13 go in with an adult.
An escape room on Calle del Castillo, right in the centre of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with two 60-minute rooms: El Último Horcrux, inspired by the Harry Potter saga, for up to 7 players, and Resacón en Las Vegas, inspired by the comedy The Hangover, for up to 8 players and adults over 18 only. Games run in Spanish and English.
An escape room in San Cristóbal de La Laguna with two rooms: AlcatraZ, a breakout from the most secure prison of its day, and K-19, a mission aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine based on a true story. Games are played in Spanish, minors can take part without adults from the age of 14, and large groups can book both rooms at the same time.
A horror escape room in central Santa Cruz de Tenerife that doubles as a fright attraction: a house where strange things began to happen after it was filled with antiques. Each group picks its own terror level, from low to extreme, and an enchanted forest experience can be booked as well. Play is by advance booking only, and nobody is seen without one.
A fortress of colonial character at the mouth of the ravine that shares its name, in Puerto de la Cruz, right beside Playa Jardín. Its story goes back to the 17th century, when it watched over the northern coast of Tenerife and sheltered the town from corsairs and pirates. Built of masonry in the shape of an irregular pentagon, it lost its military role in 1869 and now serves as the cultural venue of the municipality, with an exhibition hall and a cafe.
The Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, also known by its initials CAJI, is a space devoted to contemporary creation in Puerto del Rosario. It stands in the El Charco district, on the site once occupied by the Cine Marga, whose historic façade has been preserved. It takes its name from Juan Ismael González, a Canarian painter born in Fuerteventura in 1907 and closely linked to the avant garde movements of his day.
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 Museo Arqueológico de Fuerteventura stands in the Villa Histórica de Betancuria, the first capital of the Canary Islands after the conquest and listed among the most beautiful villages in Spain. It is a modern space created with a vocation for promoting culture and research, and it works as the centre and hub of knowledge about the majorero aborigines, the mahos. The Cabildo de Fuerteventura runs it.
Castillo de Mata houses the Museum of the City and the Sea in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The fortification was built in 1577 beside the city wall and is one of the few surviving remains of the town's sixteenth-century defensive system. It was declared a Historic Artistic Monument in 1949 and, after a restoration completed in 2013, opened as a museum in 2015.
The Casa-Museo Tomás Morales occupies the poet's birthplace and family home, a mid nineteenth century building in the Villa de Moya. It is a public institution under the culture department of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, which bought the house from his heirs in 1966 and opened it as a house museum in October 1976. The permanent rooms present the life and work of Tomás Morales together with the literary context of his time.
A monument at the western tip of El Hierro, on Punta de Orchilla, beside the lighthouse that for centuries marked the prime meridian. El Hierro is known as the Island of the Meridian thanks to Ptolemy, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer who placed the origin of longitudes here in the 2nd century, where it stayed until it moved to Greenwich in 1884. The spot is reached by car and sits well off the usual routes.
A centre devoted to traditional Gomeran pottery, right in the middle of the village of El Cercado, in the Chipude area. On La Gomera the ware is still made as it was centuries ago, by hand and without a wheel, and that is precisely the craft explained here. The tour covers every stage, from gathering the raw clay to firing in wood burning kilns, using interactive panels, pieces at different stages and explanatory videos.
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.
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.
TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR WORKS. 18th-century crenellated palace in La Oliva, once home to the colonels who ruled Fuerteventura and 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.
A large cactus-focused botanical park in La Aldea de San Nicolás, on the west of Gran Canaria, home to one of the biggest succulent collections in the archipelago.
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.
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.
Centre about the Garoé, the sacred tree that supplied water to El Hierro's ancient Bimbache people.
A natural volcanic pool in El Golfo (Frontera, El Hierro), with a turquoise basin beneath a basalt arch, parking and a wooden sun deck.
A viewpoint on the central plateau of El Hierro, inside the Frontera rural park, looking out over the escarpment of the El Golfo valley. From the rim you take in at a glance the huge landslide that dropped half the island's flank and left the valley at the foot of the wall. It is reached on a circular trail through a south-facing laurel and heath forest of tall tree heathers, ferns and lichen.
El Tamaduste is a natural pool set into a coastal village in the municipality of Valverde, in the north-east of El Hierro. The inlet forms a sheet of clear, sheltered water that is good for swimming, and at its far end opens the so-called boat cave, tied to the island's oral tradition. The village has for generations been the summer place of the herreños themselves, and it remains one of the liveliest bathing spots in the municipality.
The Barranco de los Cernícalos in Valsequillo is one of the few watercourses on Gran Canaria that runs all year round. One of the island's best wild olive woods grows on its slopes and a willow grove thrives on the bed; the water comes channelled down from the summits and forms small waterfalls. The name comes from the kestrel, the bird of prey that nests in the ravine. The picnic area marks the start of the easiest walk, about three kilometres long.
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.
Aboriginal site and natural fortress where the last Canarian resistance took place.
A guided trail through a special nature reserve that starts above Adeje's old town. Around 6.5 kilometres there and back, some three and a half hours, with a compulsory helmet, a limit of 300 visitors a day and booking required in advance.
The Charco de Golete is a small bathing pool on the coast of Güímar, next to the hamlet of La Caleta in the east of Tenerife. It is a mixed rock pool in the style of a natural swimming pool, its water renewed by the breaking waves and the tide. It is used mainly by people from the surrounding area, has an average depth of 1.8 metres and is equipped with access steps and a sunbathing area.
Los Charcos de Valleseco, popularly known as Ligrasa, is the bathing area on the coast of the Valleseco neighbourhood in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, opened in 2024 after almost 35 years of campaigning by local residents. It stretches along some 340 metres of shore, with pools sheltered by breakwaters, floating platforms and sun decks, accessible ramps into the sea, showers, adapted toilets and green areas.
The Paseo Marítimo Bristol is a seafront promenade in Corralejo, the town in the municipality of La Oliva in the north of Fuerteventura. The street is about 740 metres long and belongs to the Bristol area of town. La Oliva Town Council set about removing structures and obstacles that got in the way of people walking along it, aiming to recover and widen the public space for pedestrians and cyclists.
Mirador de La Cancelita stands in Los Barros, in the municipality of El Paso on La Palma, and is the end point of the Lomo de las Chozas - Mirador de la Cancelita route in the Caldera de Taburiente National Park visitor guide. That trail skirts the northern slope of Pico Bejenado through pine forest, springs and ravines, with views into the Caldera, and reaches the viewpoint at 552 metres.
Torre del Time is a small viewpoint in the municipality of Tijarafe, on the west side of La Palma, looking down into the Barranco de las Angustias and the lower stretch of the Caldera de Taburiente. It takes its name from a forest watchtower, not open to visitors, that overlooks most of the neighbouring national park. It is reached by an unpaved track or on foot along the GR 131 long-distance trail.
Playa María Jiménez is a beach in the municipality of Puerto de la Cruz, on the north coast of Tenerife. It lies next to Calle Guayanfanta, facing the Atlantic Ocean.
A small coastal spot in the municipality of Garachico, on the northern side of Tenerife. On one side the view opens over Garachico and its rugged coast, with the outline of the Roque in the foreground, the cliff of El Guincho and the sport and fishing harbour; on the other it settles on abandoned terraces that recall the crops once grown in the area. There is parking, a bus stop, adapted access and an interpretive table.
A large coastal lagoon at La Aldea de San Nicolás, in the west of Gran Canaria, where still water mirrors the calm of the municipality and the depth of its history. Early island dwellers built their settlements on this spot, and every September the Fiesta del Charco is held here, an inheritance of the embarbascada, a collective fishing practice older than the Spanish Conquest. Rubén Díaz Park lies a few metres away.
A viewpoint on the TF-21 road, the route that climbs from La Orotava towards Teide National Park. It grew out of a small rest area and was opened in 2014 by the island council of Tenerife together with the town council of La Orotava. The balcony looks out over a broad stretch of mountain woodland that the island council has been replanting, and interpretive panels explain how the area was reforested.
An open-air viewpoint in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on Calle Rodrigo de Manrique. Known as Parque de Pepe el limpiabotas, it serves as an urban lookout point inside the city, on the island of Gran Canaria.
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