The best Lanzarote travel guide is right here. What to see in Lanzarote, what to visit in Lanzarote, what to do in Lanzarote, the best beaches in Lanzarote… You’re on a tranquil, unique, and fascinating island. It’s also small. Everything is close by, but you’ll never truly know it all. Mild temperatures, over 300 volcanoes, wild beaches, tourist beaches, white sand beaches, black sand beaches, and the Atlantic Ocean at your feet. Experience the magic of César Manrique at the Lanzarote Art, Culture, and Tourism Centers and the César Manrique Foundation. Restaurants and hotels, beautiful promenades, a wide range of leisure activities, and yet you’d still have more than a dozen fascinating places to discover. Welcome to Lanzarote.
Lanzarote tourist guide
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Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism
César Manrique’s unique vision and perception of art are etched into his native island. It stands as an example of integration with nature, aesthetic harmony, and character. Combined with the visionary approach of the Island Council, the island’s tourist centers were created between the 1970s and 1980s.
Other places of interest
Marinas
Lanzarote has three marinas. There are also pontoons for recreational boats in Puerto Naos (Arrecife), Puerto del Carmen, Puerto Limones (Playa Blanca) and Caleta de Sebo (La Graciosa).
Leisure offer
Water parks, such as Aquapark Costa Teguise and Aqualava Waterpark in Playa Blanca; yacht rentals with or without a skipper, jet skis, kayaks, bicycles, quads, and motorcycles. Golf courses such as Costa Teguise Golf and Lanzarote Golf in Puerto del Carmen, where the Gran Casino Lanzarote is also located.
There are diving centers in all the tourist towns. Camel rides are available, such as at the Timanfaya rest stop and on horseback; paragliding and hang gliding are also popular, as are canoeing and paddle surfing. Hiking trails and guided excursions are offered, along with Segway and buggy tours. Surf lessons and rentals of boards and equipment for windsurfing, kitesurfing, and wingfoiling are available in Famara. Go-kart tracks can be found in San Bartolomé and Puerto del Carmen. Puerto del Carmen is also home to the Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park theme park. Submarine diving is available in Puerto Calero, and you can explore marine life at the Lanzarote Aquarium in Costa Teguise.
Museums
Fundación César Manrique FCM
A museum space dedicated to the work of César Manrique, centered around his house on the volcano (Taro de Tahíche). Built into a volcanic lava flow, it is an example of artistic integration with nature. It also includes the Casa del Palmeral in Haría, the artist’s birthplace.
Wine Museum El Grifo
It’s a journey back in time. Located in the original winery, dating back to 1775, it features the original covered wine press, cooperage workshop, the winery itself with barrels, transfer pumps, stills… Elements from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Lanzarote Aeronautical Museum
Located in the first building intended as a passenger terminal, the Museum is a window, full of romance and nostalgia, into the beginnings of tourism in Lanzarote in the early 1940s. It features photographs, objects related to air travel and tourism, and also works of art.
Tanit Ethnographic Museum
Housed in an old 18th-century manor, formerly the Las Vegas winery, the Tanit Museum of Ethnography showcases, preserves, and promotes the ethnographic heritage of Lanzarote. Declared a Center of Tourist and Cultural Interest, its galleries display the history of Lanzarote’s inhabitants through their customs, traditions, clothing, folklore, idols, tools, and daily life.
Timple Museum– Palacio Spínola
Built between 1730 and 1780, it is, after several renovations, an example of stately island architecture. Owned by the Teguise Town Council since 1984 and a house-museum, it underwent a new renovation in 2011, transforming the palace into a cultural and ethno-historical space, now the Timple House-Museum.
Museum of Piracy
Perched atop the Guanapay volcano, the Santa Bárbara fortress houses a museum commemorating the many pirate attacks suffered by the island. Built in the mid-15th century by order of Agustín de Herrera y Rojas, Lord of Lanzarote, this imposing building served as a watchtower, a refuge for the population, a dungeon, a military dovecote, and, for many years, housed the Migration Museum, another pressing issue for the people of Lanzarote.
A Casa José Saramago
An adopted son of the island since 1997, the Portuguese Nobel laureate, who died in 2010, said of Lanzarote that “it is not my land, but it is my land.” Since shortly after his passing, ‘A casa’ has been a museum about the life of José Saramago and his daily relationship with the place he chose as his home.
Museum of the History of Arrecife
Located in San Gabriel Castle and flanked by two cannons, the fortress showcases different periods in the history of the capital and the island. A double causeway, built of lava blocks with cobblestones of the same material and featuring a unique and iconic drawbridge on one of them, connects it to the coast. Visiting it is like stepping back in time.
Timanfaya Interpretation Centre
Nestled within a volcanic landscape, the Visitor Centre offers everything you need to know and understand to make the most of your visit to Timanfaya National Park. It explains the unique characteristics of recent volcanism in Lanzarote, its current inhabitants, and even recreates the sounds and tremors of an eruption in one of its rooms. A truly awe-inspiring experience.
wine route
The main wine-producing region of Lanzarote, though not the only one, is La Geria. Several of its principal wineries are located along the road that crosses it. Many of these wineries, and some located further along the road, have restaurants where you can taste the wines and shops where you can buy them.
Shopping centers
Flea markets
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Art galleries
Tourist offices
- Puerto del Carmen (Avda. de las Playas) 928510542
- Puerto del Carmen (El Fondeadero. Old town) 928513351
- Costa Teguise (Pueblo Marinero) 928592542
- Teguise (Plz. de la Constitución) 928845398
- Playa Blanca (C/ Jaime Quesada ‘El Maestro, nº3) 928518150
- Airport (Arrivals Terminal) 928820704
- Arrecife (bus station) 928155999
