Lanzarote

Lanzarote is one of the 7 islands that make up the Canary Islands (Spain) and is located in the Atlantic Ocean facing the coastline of southern Morocco. Its capital city is Arrecife and the island’s name may well have been taken from the Genoese navigator Lanceloto Malocello, who visited the island in the 14th century.

It is the archipelago’s easternmost island and is characterised by a volcanic lava field that covers a large part of its surface due to the volcanic activity that the island experienced towards the start of the 18th century.

Lanzarote, known as the island of volcanoes, offers travellers magnificent fine sandy beaches.

It was declared one of the six universal models of sustainable development by the WTO in 1987 and a Biosphere Reserve in 1994.