Explorer's Find: A Cultural Oasis in the Canary Islands

A Cultural Oasis in the Canary Islands 

Just past Lanzarote's bundle visit play areas are social destinations as rich as the Canary Islands' volcanic soil.

Arriving IN Lanzarote, the easternmost of Spain's Canary Islands, you'll experience crowds of sightseers landing from the scrum of flights from Northern Europe.
I've generally thought about this volcanic finger of an island wagging 80 miles off the shore of Africa as a modest shoreline "n" blends destination for Germans, Scandinavians and Brits. The anyplace under-the-sun feel of the island's comprehensive resorts offers a solace I discover commonplace, having had a decent childhood in Denmark, where "bundle visit" was practically synonymous with "get-away."
In any case, in transit from the air terminal to Club La Santa, a games focus settled on a confined stretch of coastline, I saw something that proposed Lanzarote was more than only a piece of magma ringed with resorts and ocean.
Against a plain of dark basalt, a group of farmhouses flashed splendid soul and greens—a long ways from the ferroconcrete that so regularly imperfections bundle visit play areas. It was the first occasion when I'd seen the handicraft of César Manrique, a Spaniard who must be among the twentieth century's most productive Renaissance men—and, as it turned out, an incredible purpose behind coming to Lanzarote.