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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.
Volcano and astronomical viewpoint in Fuencaliente, with a walk along the crater rim, a visitor centre and protected skies for stargazing.
Viewpoint on the TF-454 road, on the descent towards Puerto Santiago in the municipality of Santiago del Teide. It looks out over the Los Gigantes cliffs and the coastal town with its marina; to the right stands the lighthouse of Punta de Teno, and on clear evenings La Gomera appears on the horizon. There is parking and an interpretation panel.
Balcony over the Orotava Valley with views of the banana plantations, coast and Teide, where the naturalist Humboldt paused.
Natural pool on the coast of Santiago del Teide, in the Isla Cangrejo development. A concrete wall shields it from the swell, so bathing stays calm and suits families, and a flight of steps leads down to the water. The surroundings invite a walk, watching the waves break against the sea stacks. Take particular care at high tide.
Cliff-top viewpoint in Tijarafe overlooking the Aridane valley, the Las Angustias ravine and Tazacorte harbour.
Black volcanic-sand beach beside the Janubio salt flats, with strong Atlantic surf better suited to walks than to swimming.
Dark-sand beach with calm water in San Agustín, holding the Blue Flag and lifeguard service.
Wide golden-sand beach beside the Maspalomas Dunes and lighthouse, at the southern tip of Gran Canaria.
Protected volcanic islet north of Corralejo, with trails, crystal-clear lagoons and a lighthouse, reached by ferry from Fuerteventura.
Long white-sand beaches beside the Corralejo dunes, with turquoise water ideal for swimming and wind sports.
Lava cliffs on the Yaiza coast where the Atlantic surges through sea caves and blowholes carved into the volcanic rock.
Municipal observatory in Ingenio devoted to outreach, with visits and observations for the public.
Astronomical observatory near the village of Temisas, in Agüimes, with public observation sessions.
The Gran Telescopio Canarias, one of the largest optical telescopes in the world, on the summit of La Palma.
A world-class observatory at 2,400 m on the summit of La Palma, one of the cleanest skies on the planet.
One of the world's largest solar observatories, at 2,400 m in Izaña, with guided day and night visits.
Ochre volcanic cone with views in southwestern La Graciosa.
Protected natural area of the Chinijo archipelago, with La Graciosa as the main island.
Forest of twisted juniper trees, a natural monument of El Hierro.
Large protected dune field in northern Fuerteventura.
A lookout over the bay of San Sebastián de La Gomera, in the island capital, with parking, public transport and places to eat in the surroundings. The calm of the bay spread out below is deceptive: in the past, and far too often, the people of the town had to learn to watch the sea with fear, because that was the direction the raids of pirates and corsairs came from. The same bay is where the ships of Christopher Columbus put in.
Los Patos, also known as playa de Martínez Alonso, is a 900-metre strip of black sand at the foot of a protected cliff, between El Bollullo and El Ancón. Nothing breaks the swell here: the tides shift the sand and build a bank that breaks hard. You walk down from the end of the TF-176, there are no services and no lifeguards, and the town hall has closed the access for repair works.
Free roadside viewpoint over the Veneguera ravine on the GC-200 between Mogán and La Aldea; it is often very windy.
Viewpoint at almost 600 metres over Famara beach, the Chinijo islands and La Graciosa, set in a replanted pine wood.
Free 24 hour viewpoint over the volcanic amphitheatre and black shore of El Golfo, inside Los Volcanes nature park.
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.
Playa de Tiritaña is a stretch of the Gran Canaria coast listed under the category playa, the Spanish word for beach, and located in the municipality of Mogán. It is among the coastal spots that islas24 gathers for this island, ordered by the municipality they belong to.
Playa de la Verga is a beach in the municipality of Mogán, in the south west of Gran Canaria. The island's official tourism portal places it on the same stretch of coast as Playa de Patalavaca, which lies between Arguineguín and la Verga. It is one of the beaches along the Mogán shoreline, a municipality with sixteen kilometres of coast and more than twenty beaches.
A beach of pebbles and volcanic gravel of varying size on the southern coast of Fuencaliente de La Palma, also known as Playa Nueva. It can be reached by car or on foot along the local paths, and there is parking, a public transport stop and a shower at the entrance. Two natural pools form at the foot of the nearby cliff. The beach is unsupervised, and wind and surf are often strong.
A black sand beach at the southern entrance to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, about 1,200 metres long and with moderate swell. It is presided over by a sculpture of the god Triton set on a lookout from which the eastern shoreline of the capital can be seen as far as the volcanic peninsula of La Isleta. It has three natural pools whose water is renewed by the tides. Ciudad de Mar warns of strong currents that call for extreme care when bathing.
An open beach on the shoreline of Corralejo Natural Park, in the municipality of La Oliva, part of the nine-kilometre run of beaches bordered by the largest dunes in the Canary Islands. The sand is jable, a white sand formed naturally by the erosion of seashells, and the water turns turquoise. Lobos and Lanzarote sit on the horizon. Access is from the FV-1 road.
Playa Blanca is one of the two main stretches of sand at Puerto del Carmen, in the municipality of Tías, and it should not be mixed up with the town of the same name some twenty kilometres further south, in Yaiza. Fine golden sand, a south facing shore and usually gentle water, because the island itself screens the coast from the north easterly trade wind. Behind it runs Avenida de las Playas, the promenade that links the resort's beaches.
El Bollullo is a black volcanic sand beach at the foot of a cliff, in the municipality of La Orotava, about two hundred metres long and forty wide. The sand mixes with rock formations that reach out into the sea, and the whole is sheltered beneath the slope. You get there on foot from Puerto de la Cruz in some forty-five minutes, or by a short stepped path from the El Rincón area. The waves are usually strong.
The longest beach in Puerto del Carmen, in the municipality of Tías on Lanzarote, with golden sand, shallow water and a calm atmosphere.
Lighthouse from 1864 at the southern tip of Fuerteventura, in Pájara, home to the interpretation centre of the Parque Natural de Jandía.
Golden-sand beach some three kilometres long on the south coast of Gran Canaria, next to the Maspalomas dunes, with a Blue Flag and a promenade of bars and shops.
Wide, calm water beach between San Agustín and Playa del Inglés, with lifeguards and a lively promenade.
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 Pino Gordo is one of the largest known Canary Island pines: 45.12 metres tall with a circumference of 9.36 metres at chest height, according to the Vilaflor de Chasna town council, which puts its age at between 700 and 800 years. It stands just outside the village, at a laid-out viewpoint beside the Teide road, a few minutes' walk from the parking area.
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.
The camino del barranco de Masca descends a canyon in the Parque Rural de Teno, in the municipality of Buenavista del Norte, cut into volcanic rock by water. It runs about 5 kilometres one way, rated high difficulty, over rocky ground with ramps and steps. Access is regulated: advance booking is compulsory, so is the collective transfer from Santiago del Teide, and the walk ends by boat or kayak from the Masca cove.
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.
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