Mirador del Río.

Located 400 meters above sea level in the Risco de Famara, the Mirador del Río is one of the most representative architectural creations of César Manrique. Plasma, in the succession of artistic and architectural details, his enthusiasm for integrating art and nature. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the remains of an old military battery that dates back to the late nineteenth century, and camouflaged in the rock with the expertise that only a genius like Manrique could conceive. El Mirador dominates El Río, the narrow strip of sea that separates Lanzarote from La Graciosa.

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Mountains of Fire. Timanfaya.

The Mountains of Fire are a walk on the Moon without leaving Earth. Born after the violent volcanic eruptions that hit the south of Lanzarote between 1730 and 1736 that gave rise to the Timanfaya National Park, the Mountains of Fire have the beauty of desolation and give a symphony of ocher colors that never leaves the viewer indifferent , dwarfed by an imposing and living work of art, in which Manrique re-stamped his signature conceiving a space in which art, man and nature coexist harmoniously.

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Cave of the Greens.

There are few places that concentrate as many points of interest for the cultural and natural heritage of Lanzarote as the Cueva de los Verdes, a mythological aura cave, full of legend and full of landscape features of extraordinary beauty and uniqueness. Formed as a result of the eruptive activity of the Corona Volcano, it is one of the most amazing wonders that hide the bowels of Lanzarote. Used as a hiding place for the population against the attacks and invasions of pirates from North Africa during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the nineteenth century it became a must for travelers, scholars and European scientists fascinated by this unique volcanic formation that, Paradoxically, he owes his name to the family name of a family that kept his cattle in the surroundings, as they say.

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Cactus garden.

It was the last major intervention of César Manrique in Lanzarote. The eyes of the Lanzarote artist saw beyond the degraded space that was an old rofera, in Lanzarote the quarries from which aggregates are extracted are called, to create a very particular home for cacti flowers from around the planet.

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Jameos del Agua.

The Jameos del Agua, like the Cueva de los Verdes, are located inside a volcanic tunnel produced by the eruptions of the Corona Volcano. Los Jameos are located in the section of the tunnel closest to the coast. They owe their name to the existence of an inland lake originated by marine leaks, and which constitutes a unique geological formation.

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