San Bartolomé travel guide

Top 10 sights in San Bartolomé

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   Timanfaya National Park

   The lava field left by the eruptions of 1730-36, which buried a quarter of Lanzarote. A few metres down the ground still runs between a hundred and six hundred degrees: the restaurant grills over a vent, and staff pour water into a borehole to raise a geyser. Access is by coach road only.

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   Fortress of Saint Barbara

   A fortress on the crater rim of the Guanapay volcano, a little over a kilometre from the village of Teguise on Lanzarote. It is open to the public and holds a museum of piracy, which is what the fort was built against.

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   Jardín de Cactus

   A garden of cactus terraced into an old quarry at Guatiza, where volcanic lapilli was dug to hold moisture in the fields. Cesar Manrique laid it out as his last major work, opening in 1990 among the prickly pears grown here for cochineal dye.

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   Castillo de San José

   A former fortress at Arrecife on Lanzarote in the Canaries, now an art museum. César Manrique converted it, and it holds the island's collection of contemporary Spanish art.

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   Temple Hall

   A cargo ship built at Dundee in Scotland in 1954. She changed name with each change of owner, and in 1981 she was run aground on the Lanzarote coast to stop her sinking after taking water in a storm.

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   Playa Quemada

   A fishing hamlet of low white houses on the southwest coast of Lanzarote, home to only about 130 people. The LZ-706 drops down to it, and a coast path runs in from Puerto del Carmen past coves of black pebbles.

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   Royal Residence of La Mareta

   A Spanish royal residence at Teguise on Lanzarote in the Canaries. King Hussein of Jordan had it built at the end of the 1970s to a design by César Manrique, and it has also served as a holiday house for Spanish prime ministers.

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   San Ginés

   The parish church of Arrecife, grown from a hermitage of 1574 that the sea flooded and forced into complete rebuilding in 1667, with enlargements in the two centuries after. It honours Saint Gines, the town's patron, and its bell tower copies that of La Concepcion in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

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   Fundación César Manrique

   The house Cesar Manrique built for himself in 1968 on the lava at Tahiche, its lower floor set inside five volcanic bubbles left by the eruptions of the 1730s and joined by tunnels. It opened as his foundation in 1992, holding his own work along with pieces by Picasso, Miro and Tapies.

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    Hermitage of Los Dolores

    The shrine at Mancha Blanca to the Virgin of the Volcanoes, raised where islanders believe her intercession halted the lava in 1824. Lanzarote's patronal pilgrimage brings thousands here on 15 September, walking in from every village on the island.

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