any rain year around. 120,000 habitants, living mostly from tourism. Lancelotto, a Genovese navigator arrived to the island in 1312.
All the houses are painted in white, offering a great contrast against the black remains of lava.
Scientists estimate that human beings first walked on the Canary Islands some 4,000 years ago, after migrating from Europe
From 1730 to 1736, the south of the island, was struck by one of the most important eruptions in the history of Vulcanology. The cultivated fields were transformed into one of the most extensive lava fields; more than twenty villages and hamlets were buried by the rage of the craters.
In the year 1824, the last volcanic eruption of these characteristics took place in LANZAROTE. Reaching the sea.
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Caravan of camel riders going around the crater of the volcano.
The scenery is breathtaking and unrepeatable.
Spawned by extreme volcanic activity sone 20 million years ago, the rugged LANZAROTE landscape offers some of the world’s most dramatic scenery.
The scenery has not changed much since the eruptions.
Lanzarote in known as the mythic island because the volcanic relief has sculpted breathtaking landscape of almost lunar beauty.
A few green plants, remainder of this natural geological calamity
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