Area Description
Costa Teguise is one of the main tourist resorts on the island, with big luxury hotels
and apartments where architecture and landscape have been harmoniously integrated. As well as the main beach of Las Cucharas there are many other waterfront areas to choose from, with several diving centres, a golf course and bicycle hire shops all at arms length you can't go far wrong. For families, Ocean Water Park is based just 2km inland from Costa Teguise which boasts water slides, flumes and heated swimming pools. Open daily from 10am – 6pm.
There are many restaurants in Costa Teguise where the locals welcome those with children.
Some Places of Interest
Timanfaya is one of the best examples of a volcanic habitat sparsely vegetated and inhabited by rare species that feed upon organic matter carried by the wind.
This singularly beautiful park is a living laboratory of scientific, geologic and geomorphologic interest. A tour guide will take you across the volcanic landscape and will show you its geothermal anomalies
The National Park of Timanfaya is a volcanic field where visitors can appreciate a great variety of geological phenomena as well as a large biological mix of some 180 different plant species.
In this impressive habitat where human presence has been practically nil, the park serves as an authentic laboratory for biological research. The park has a spectacular lunar aspect with different tones of ochre and grey.
This region was devastated by intermittent volcanic eruptions over a six year period, 1730-1736, and again during the XIX century, mainly in 1824.
 Thermic anomalies are amusing for the visitors to watch a bit of water introduced in a hole on the ground becoming a geiser of boiling steam in seconds, due to a magmatic camera situated three kilometres deep down that reaches from 100 to 200 degrees centigrades on the surface.
The restaurant El Diablo serves specialities of the island grilled over geothermal heat.
 The César Manrique Foundation is the island's cultural centre par excellence that has won international recognition, not only because it houses some of the works of the world famous artist himself,...
The premises on which the headquarters the César Manrique Foundation are now situated consist of the artist’s house, the former servants’ quarters and the garages.
 The house is built on an 30,000 m² estate, spreading over an outflow of volcanic lava from the eruptions occurring on the island in the period from 1730 to 1736. César Manrique choose this site on his return from New York, when he decided to settle in Lanzarote for good. In 1968, he began to build this, his own domestic architectural work.
The building, erected on five very large, natural, volcanic bubbles, has an inhabitable surface area of 1,800 m², distributed at two levels.
In addition, there are terraces and gardens measuring 1,200 m² and a parking lot with a surface area of 2,900 m².
The entire area just described was renovated by César Manrique for the purpose of adapting it to its new function as a museum and administrative and services infrastructure.
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