For the people who plan going to a Lanzarote apartment sometime in the future you might be wondering what places of interest to see when you are there. Well, the capital city of Lanzarote is Arrecife and that is a good place to start with.

This port city that has taken over from Teguise as the Island’s capital. It is located on the south coast of the island, nestled between Costa Teguise and Puerto Del Carmen. Arrecife is also the home to the island’s airport and a slight diversion on the way to Puerto Del Carmen will give airplane enthusiasts a real treat as they can stand right at the end of the runway and, dependent on wind direction, have the airplanes passing low level over their heads as they take off or land.

About 50% of the inhabitants of this island reside in Arrecife and the site of Lanzarote’s only building of above the regulation couple of floors. From miles around the island’s only high rise building can be seen as a giant over the city. Cesar Manrique’s vision for the future of the island stopped the building of any more such buildings and for 30 year this hotel, the Arrecife Gran Hotel, was a mere part completed shell as authorities debated completion or destruction.

The traditional capital used to be Teguise, some 6 miles further inland. This was selected as protection from the regular pirate raids of old and was the capital of the island for 4 and a half centuries. It was only in the mid 1800s, when the importance of the port was recognized for the marine trade that the capital status was moved to Arrecife.

And one who is in the search for places to visit when have booked a apartment in Lanzarote to help you escape from the beach, then visitin Timanfaya Volcano Park is a must and probably top of your list if it is your first visit to the island.

The journey through the park is the start of the experience. It is described as being a lunar scene and that is really the feeling that you do get as you watch fields of solidified volcanic lava that have been untouched since they were laid down. The area is now a protected park to help preserve this landscape.

You will see that the visitor centre also houses a fairly unusual restaurant There are no conventional ovens. Instead the food is cooked from the heat given off by a hole in the rocks. The demonstrations of the heat given off from the subterranean rocks are certainly varied!

Don’t forget that you can also get a guided coach tour from the visitor center that shows tourists a little more of the area and the rock formations. All of this makes Timanfaya, Fire Mountain, well worth a visit!

Get yourself vacation home – this is possible.

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