Lanzarote, a unique place to discover before you want to live there The island of Lanzarote, bright and wild, spectacular, and incredibly unspoiled, the easternmost of the Canaries remains one of the best kept secrets.

The island of eternal spring offers a journey to the center of a land of fire on a territory of 845 km2. Beaten by the waves and winds of the Atlantic, 140 kilometers from the African coast and 1000 kilometers from Spain country on which it depends. Covered for a third of lava, it is only volcanoes: more than 300 craters upset a landscape evoking the end of the world or the first days of humanity. According to the hours and the lights, perpetually heckled by the race of the clouds, Lanzarote was able to fire all the elements to forge a unique identity. The architect César Manrique, the most famous of his benefactors, spoke of it as a “work of art without frame and without limits”. Lanzarote is also synonymous with “knowing how to live well”: Lanzarote has always valued a generous cuisine, made of fresh, raw and mostly organic products. Each market town has its morning market, which offers fresh fish assortments caught on the coast, chicken, cheese and many fruits and vegetables.

White sandy beaches of the most popular resorts of the island, wild creeks bordering the foaming sea, black sand fields or rolling dunes, the 85 beaches of Lanzarote cultivate the art of paradox: there is prevarication between the bitterness of the setting, harshness of elements and sweetness of life. In Papagayo Beach, you can feel a bit of the hippie atmosphere that reigned in the 1970s. In Caleta de Famara, a small favorite station and weekend destination for the inhabitants of the capital, we admire surfers attacking the waves powerful in an atmosphere of end of the world. 

In the north of the island of Lanzarote, in Orzola, a boat sometimes a little heckled by the elements takes you to taste the sublime expanses of the very Cuban Isla de La Graciosa, tiny atoll out of the sea, delimited from north to south by five peaks volcanic trapped between sky and water.