A multi-faceted artist from the Canaries, César Manrique transformed the volcanic island of Lanzarote into a petri dish of aesthetic experimentation in the 1960s: from his troglodytic house in Tahíche ...

Lanzarote travel guide: a sea-swept volcanic paradise. Even a short exploration quickly shows the out-of-this-world island is undeserving of its 'Brits abroad' reputation .

But volcanic activity gave a huge boost to the industry on Lanzarote. After the island’s devastating eruptions, the last of which happened in 1824, its inhabitants were forced to improvise or ...

Periodically buffeted by the alisios, a hot seasonal wind, Lanzarote is defined by its volcanic features, from César Manrique’s famed Volcano House — built within air pockets in the volcanic ...

The conical hollows of Lanzarote are built in volcanic ash (Credit: Turismo de Islas Canarias) In Spain's Lanzarote Island, conical hollows built into layers of volcanic ash yield wines that have ...

Lanzarote makes some excellent wines and La Geria, the island’s wine region, is worth an afternoon tour. The vineyards are unusual, with vines growing in volcanic ash, traditionally rooted in ...

Lanzarote’s history is as turbulent as the sweep of volcanoes that forged it and today still spectacularly dominate one of Macaronesia’s most dramatic islands, whose entirety is a Unesco ...

From powder-fine Papagayo to the volcanic grains of El Golfo, here are the best of Lanzarote’s monochrome sands . Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

About 80 miles off the coast of Morocco, Lanzarote (Lahn-zah-ROH-tay) shares the renegade aura of longtime L.G.B.T.Q. destinations like Key West, Fla., and Provincetown, Mass., in the United States.