Lanzarote Information

Lanzarote is the most Easterly Island of the Canaries and is located a mere 40 miles off of the coast of Morocco.

About 400 years ago the eruptions stopped, the lava stilled and the skies cleared. The giant Volcanoes that had so dramatically changed Lanzarote's fertile landscape fell into slumber.

The years that passed left a bleak existence for the Guanchos that inhabited the island. Farming small crops and fishing were about the only ways to survive and due to Lanzarote's location on the gate to the new World, pirate raids were common.

The years passed, rare clouds cast their shadow on the beautiful, barren landscape. Casting shade on hues of ochre, red, gold, black and violet. The pirates left the small Spanish Island and the peoples of Lanzarote continued as before.


However, not even Lanzarote could escape the swinging 60's. The decade that saw plastic in every home and flares on most legs also saw the advent of cheap tourism. With that life became easier on the Island of fire!

Some people still farm in the traditional way and in the centre of the Island you will find a number of vineyards where you are able to taste the local wine.

Some people still fish, and you can see boats leave every morning from a number of harbours across the Island, most notably in Playa Blanca.

Lanzarote is unique, even in the Canaries, it has long golden beaches of sand carried on winds from the Sahara. It has jet black beaches of volcanic sand, a testament to the crushing power of the Atlantic Ocean. There is the huge national park, an area untouched by a human foot since the cessation of the volcanoes, that is of course except for the lunar astronauts who prepared the moon landings on our Island.

Lanzarote is the cleanest of all Islands in the Canaries, and thanks to Cesar Manrique the least built up. No structure in Lanzarote is allowed to be built over 2 stories tall. All inland windows and doors should be green or brown and all seaside windows and doors should be blue or brown. All buildings are white. This gives a uniform, aesthetically pleasing, tranquil aspect to the island that is missing on the other Canaries and mainland Spain.

There are so many things to see and do in Lanzarote that it is not possible to list them all here, please check out our links page for more info and things to do!

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