Badlands, volcanic architecture and a unique dialogue between art and territory.
Lanzarote is the island where volcanic landscape most clearly becomes the absolute protagonist. Historic eruptions radically altered its territory and forced the development of agricultural, urban and cultural solutions deeply adapted to an austere yet spectacular environment.
Lava, wind and white architecture: an island that turned the volcano into a visual language and way of life.
History and territory
It was one of the first islands known to European navigators and played an early role in seigneurial conquest. Later, the great Timanfaya eruptions of the eighteenth century transformed settlements, farmlands and collective memory, leaving the scenario that still defines the island's global image today.
Cultural landscape
Lanzarote's contemporary imprint cannot be understood without the work of César Manrique and the peasant tradition that learned to cultivate on ash and lapilli. Jameos, wineries and whitewashed villages coexist with volcanic cones and recent lava flows in one of the most singular cultural compositions of the Canary Islands.