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Top 10 places in Lanzarote
Our app features the history of 25 monuments and great sites including places to discover Lanzarote. Here is a selection of the top 10 monuments of the city, with an extract of the texts available in the application and written by our teams of specialists. For full content, download our Android and iPhone Guide and start creating your travel journal for your stay at Lanzarote
Castillo de San José
This castle was built in volcanic stones between 1776 and 1779 to prevent the attacks of pirates who were frequent, but also to give work to the population who was very poor at that time, and was suffering from hunger. This fort is sometimes called the "Castle of Hunger". The famine was caused by ... Read more
Cueva de los Verdes
This lava tunnel was formed between - 4500 and - 3000: a lava flow from the Corona volcano went east; its upper part cooled and solidified rapidly while its lower part continued to flow long enough. Between the two was formed a tunnel of 7 km long which collapsed in places by creating gigantic... Read more
Mirador del Rio
This viewpoint is at a height of 475 m on the flank of the cliff of the Farama massif 600 m high. It was built from 1973 on the plans of the architect César Manrique by Jesús Soto and Eduardo Caceres. It is embedded in the cliff and contains an observation deck, a large panoramic cafe and ... Read more
Cesar Manrique Foundation
It is located in the artist's former home in Tahiche, a town in the municipality of Teguise. He himself transformed his house into the headquarters of his foundation and a museum. The house is located on a plot of 3 ha which extends over a lava flow formed by the activity of a volcano between... Read more
National Park of Timanfaya
This 50 km 2 area was declared a National Park in 1974, and it welcomes one and a half million visitors a year. It has about 25 volcanoes including Las Montañas del Fuego, Montaña Rajada, Caldera del Corazoncillo and Timanfaya which was formed in 1730, and which is literally out of the ground.... Read more
El Golfo
This fishing village of 175 inhabitants of the town of Yaiza is very popular for its many fish restaurants. Not far from this village is an interesting tourist attraction: the crater of the Montaña del Golfo volcano is partly submerged and forms a green lagoon because of the many algae that have... Read more
Salinas de Janubio
In the past, in this place, agriculture was practiced; but the volcanic activity having created a lagoon, from 1895, began to build a saline which reached an area of ??45 ha; on this occasion the two villages of La Hoya and Las Breñas were created. Until 1970, about 100 workers extracted 10,000... Read more
Túnel de la Atlantida
This is the name of the last section of the volcanic tube 7 km long; she is completely submerged. It has a length of 1.6 km, and it is surprising because usually the lava does not penetrate as far into the sea; but it is supposed that the sea was high at the time of the eruption.... Read more
Arrecife
The capital of the island of Lanzarote is the most populated city of the island (58,500 inhabitants), but also the least extended with its 22 km 2 . Its center is in the immediate vicinity of the sea and in the vicinity of a lagoon around which it was built. It is here that we find the most... Read more
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