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A little more 100,000 inhabitants reside in Lanzarote, a territory of great resistances. Its landscape, its climate, its beaches,
their modern alojativo park and the stamp To stop Manrique turns the island into a privileged destiny. Volcanic trowel and, predominates the lava fields arisen, mainly after the eruptions occurred in the first third of century XVIII.

The Fire mountain

They are inside the national Park of Timanfaya. The Fire mountains have a moving and unique place, where the temperatures are of 140 degrees Celsius to only 10 cm. of depth and 400 degrees if the excavation arrives at the 6 meters. In this enclave we can participate in different geothermal experiments, like catching aulaga with the heat of the volcano or verifying the calorific emanations of the surface


Monument House of Campesino

Castle of San José

Jameos del Agua

They are in the North zone of Lanzarote, in malpais of Corona, where it exists a set of galleries and grottos of volcanic origin of very singular characteristics. The main body of this system, located in the municipality of Haria, constitutes a spectacular underground volcanic tube, created by the solidification of the lava expelled by the volcano of Corona in a process that goes back to a period between 3,000 and 4,500 years. In this place, the violent action was born from the nature.


Cactus Garden

This located in the town of Guatiza, within the municipality of Teguise, in an agricultural zone dedicated to the culture of the cochineal, a peculiar parasitic insect that nests on the stems of tuneras and that they provide a substance of carmine color very used for the cosmetic one and the feeding. The garden of Cactus I am constructed in an old rofeo, the resulting depression of the excavation done by the farmers, to extract and to transfer rofe until its fields of culture, with the purpose of to cover them and thus to conserve the humidity at night in a earth deprived of rains.


Mirador del Rió

To 480 meters of altitude above sea level, nailed in the Risco de Famara, we were with the Viewpoint of Rió, created by the artist To stop Manrique, and whose location in the island is located in the northern municipality of Haria. We are in one old position of attention of denominated artillery "Batteries of the Rió", that was transformed into viewpoint, with the purpose of to contemplate one of but spectacular panoramic which they exist in Lanzarote.


Cave of the Green

Form leaves from the same underground volcanic tube that the Jameos of the Water, and arose as a result of the eruptions of the Volcano of Corona, located to the north of Lanzarote, in the municipality of Haria, does 3000 and 4500 years. The formation of the Cave of the Green ones takes place after the cooling and solidification of the crust superior of the lava currents in its contact with the atmosphere, which I originate in the parts inferiors a grotto set and underground galleries of very singular characteristics


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