The marvelous island of Lanzarote is situated to around 150 kilometers from the African continent and belongs to the archipelago of the Canary. Its climatic conditions allow the visit of it the whole arc of the year. the territory results constituted by a low relief and slightly mountainous the tallest point doesn't reach the 700 meters on the level of the sea and doesn't almost never snow. The more elevated and more ancient mountainous groups are the Ajacheses and Famara.
The island of Lanzarote possesses an ample receptive offer with enchanting hotels to five stars surrounded by the charm, from the taste of the earth and they allow to satisfy the demands of any visitor.
Excellent the connections with the archipelago, in the island of
Lanzarote
he arrives on board of a ship or of an airplane. It has two principal harbors with regular lines of traffic interinsulare: Playa Blanca with Fuerteventura and Arrecife with the peninsula, with Gran Canaria and Tenerife. To the airport they come, every day, direct flights coming from important European cities over that from other chief towns of the archipelago and from the peninsula, particularly from Madrid and Barcellona. For the moves on the island, it
recommends him to rent an auto or to book trips organized near any agency of trip or hotel.
The urbanization of the territory introduces a model of compatible development with the preservation of the environment. Who visit the isolates of Lanzarote it is kept to contribute to its maintenance maintaining the clean and intact place.
Restaurants, cafe and coffee to Lanzarote are open up to the first hours of the morning. The pharmacies of which there am always some of turn of it open the morning and the afternoon. As a rule, the banks are open to the public up to 2 pm. The tips in sign of recognition are given for a service duly lent, both to the hotel and on board of a taxi.
For the nighttime fun to Lanzarote the tourist will find indeed Teguise to Playa Blanca, Arrecife, Puerto of the Carmen and Coast delicious nighttime cafes to the open one, ballrooms, discos and enchanting pub. Besides, Puerto of the Carmen boasts an important Casino for the one who wanted to try the fortune with the goddess bandaged of Lanzarote. Also the popular parties, particularly numerous in the summer season, they represent a proposal to a little interesting dir. They detach that of St. Marcial de Rubicón, patron of the island that is held to Femés and that it marks the beginning in the summer, Our Mrs. of the Volcanos or the Madonna of the Pains that it almost seals the end of it. To August, to Arrecife St. Gines is celebrated, a feast from the taste popular sort of numerous nighttime shows. The party more attended and however more tempting it takes place in February. It deals with the Carnival celebrated with great sumptuousness chromatic and great sense of the humor and that, taking away the to Arrecife, then it
covers ago in all the places of the island, so that the celebrations extend him for over one month.
The best beaches of Lanzarote are found to Yaiza in the natural Park of the Ajacheses, with the Playases de Papagayo. You comes crossing a road not asphalted. Worthy of note they are the solitary beaches of Playa Quemada, the anxious beach of black sand de El Golfo and Puerto Calerò, a nautical dock in which the blue flag of the UE ripples.
Arrecife has been the chief town of Lanzarote since 1847. Also if the industry tourist takings the away with the ancient Parador, today's center of the national university to distance, its principal activity is the commerce. One surrounded of sea rock-cliffs coasts along the shore containing indeed an extraordinary biological wealth. In the same heart of the city, it nests a colony of herons, migratory birds that, curiously, from over five years they reside on the thin trees of the park Ramírez Cerdá.
To see the National Park of Timanfaya and the Natural Monument of the Mountains of the Fire with the exotic caravan of camels and the Center you study, in which the explosion and the aggressiveness of the volcano that earth set on fire for almost five years, have remained unchanged. Such panorama won't miss to surprise the traveller, since it deals with an island of contrasts, in which the landscape molt inexorably from a line to the other. The 200 square kilometers of the Park of Timanfaya almost give the impression to assist to the genesis of a planet, punctuated of over hundred volcanos by now out that won't miss to surprise who contemplates him/it. Every 15 minutes, from the 10 of the morning at 16.15 o'clock in the afternoon, they effect him some excursions on board of a denominated bus the "guagua" in the vernacular.
From the characteristic noble architecture, Teguise was the first capital of the island of Lanzarote as well as the first center lived of the Canary together with Betancuria on the island of Fuerteventura. Excellent the state of maintenance of the patrimony: the Building of the Spínola, the convent of Saint Domingo and that of St. Francis are risen in a labyrinth of streets. Its vivacious market of Sunday breaks the usual silence of it. In the immediate proximities, on the Guanapay mountain, as to scrutinize the horizon, the Castle of Santa Barbara is risen, rehandled recently and turned to museum devoted to the figure of the emigrant.
As it regards the shopphing, it recommends him to go to the Calla lily Real de Arrecife or in the Sunday market of Teguise. To who was to the search of handicraft products or more tightly tied up to the insular culture, the farmer's House-museum, the market of Saturday to Haría and the fair of the craftsmanship that it develops him every year to half September to Mancha Blanca they will know how to offer an enchanting souvenir: a roses tablecloth, a basket made of palm the majoses of the Mojó.
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