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Ínsula This summer's archaeological excavation campaign at the El Bebedero site, in Teguise, has uncovered new finds that broaden our knowledge of the first communities to inhabit Lanzarote and their relations with the Roman world.
In little more than an hour's walk, biologist Rosa Betancort counts eighty butterflies on the Islote del Mojón, a patch of ancient land surrounded by a sea of…
Teguise Town Council has completed the processing of the municipal permits needed to continue with the restoration of the Casa Modernista de Luis Ramírez, one…
In 2022 the guirre (Egyptian vulture) nested for the first time in Timanfaya National Park after more than twenty years of absence.…
There are spaces that do not merely exist, but define a way of seeing. Castillo de San José marks fifty years since César Manrique rescued it from abandonment…
The Teguise Historical Archive has recovered one of its most valuable documents: the Libro de Quintos (military conscription register) of 1763-1764, an…
Colour theory holds that light is indispensable to its perception, but in Lanzarote another factor comes into play: water.…
The sixth excavation campaign at the San Marcial de Rubicón archaeological site (Yaiza) is advancing with significant results: the discovery of three new…
The Canary Islands Cultural Heritage Council has given the green light to three new dossiers for declaration as a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC), covering the…
The Cabildo of Lanzarote, through its Historical Heritage Service, is launching the ‘Cuentos de los abuelos canarios’ project, a pioneering initiative in the…
The Cumbres de Famara, one of Lanzarote’s richest natural enclaves, are back on the national map thanks to the ecological restoration project carried out in…
The El Bebedero site, in Teguise, is once again at the centre of archaeological research in the Canary Islands thanks to the results of the 2025 excavation…
The timetable for the sixth season of archaeological work at the San Marcial de Rubicón site, in the municipality of Yaiza, has been finalised, and the…
The Data Centre of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, headed by councillor Ascensión Toledo, has just published the report “Lanzarote en cifras 2024”, a bilingual…
A delegation of nine scientists from the University of Padua (Italy) is visiting Lanzarote to carry out a series of geological studies in the La Corona…
The history of Lanzarote and San Antonio, Texas, is marked by a bond forged almost three centuries ago, when a group of Lanzarote families set out on a…
The Cabildo of Lanzarote has approved the creation of a cenotaph in memory of the Mahos, the island’s first inhabitants.…
The new website created by the Data Centre of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, as part of the Memoria Digital de Lanzarote project, was recently presented at the Sala…
The Parranda Marinera de Los Buches, one of the groups most representative of Lanzarote's cultural heritage, has announced the return of its traditional street…
Inventories are an extremely useful tool in the management of cultural heritage. They make it possible to identify, describe and locate heritage elements in…
Two of the oldest human remains in the Canary Islands, found more than half a century ago in Lanzarote, have revealed new clues about violence in the first…
The Cabildo of Lanzarote, through its Heritage Department, has announced the creation of virtual archaeological collections, with the aim of bringing them…
The latest archaeological excavation campaign at San Marcial de Rubicón in Lanzarote has brought to light a wealth of bone, faunal, metal and ceramic…
The Directorate General of Culture and Cultural Heritage brought together on the island of Lanzarote the inspection units of the seven island cabildos, at a…
The Department of Universities, Science, Innovation and Culture of the Canary Islands Government has awarded a designated grant of 45,000 euros to the…
Last Saturday, the hundred or so people taking part in the cetacean watching activity organised by the Biosphere Reserve and guided by the Society for the…
According to information from Luis Socorro for elDiario.es, a team of archaeologists has discovered human remains at San Marcial del Rubicón, in the south of…
The present contemporary moment, one of redefining objectivities, has prompted almost forty artists living in Lanzarote to present a striking audiovisual clip…
Memoria Digital de Lanzarote, the digital documentation service for images and audiovisual material managed by the Data Centre of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, has…
The countdown has begun for the next research campaign at the San Marcial de Rubicón archaeological site, being carried out by the Government of the Canary…
The Cabildo of Lanzarote has held the 1st Island Culture Round Table with the aim of beginning work on an Island Cultural Plan that will showcase identity,…
The tropical biodiversity journal Avicennia has published a scientific paper describing a new marine species in the waters of Puerto del Carmen, which has been…
The Regional Department of Culture and Cultural Heritage has presented the first phase of the cultural and museum project for heritage content to be developed…
The Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage has handed over several archaeological pieces to the Historical Heritage Service of the Cabildo of Lanzarote:…
Teguise is celebrating the completion of a project of public interest whose aim is to conserve, restore and showcase the municipality’s natural and scenic…
Teguise Town Council, through its Heritage department and by means of an agreement with the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/Fundación Canaria…
San Marcial has had three known chapels dedicated to him in Lanzarote, as the written records attest and as archaeological science will now confirm too.…
The restoration and heritage recovery project at Castillo de Santa Bárbara, in Teguise, has recently been completed.…
A team of twenty people began the third phase of the archaeological research at the San Marcial de Rubicón site on Tuesday, with the aim of continuing the…
After six years of fire, lava and ash, which began with the eruptions of 1730, the island's Franciscan guardian called the people together to try to calm them,…
The Regional Ministry for Ecological Transition, the Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the…
The Directorate General of Cultural Heritage is promoting archaeological research in a volcanic tube inside a casa honda (sunken dwelling) in La Degollada,…
The Director General of Cultural Heritage of the Canary Islands Government, Nona Perera, signed this Friday morning the document initiating proceedings for the…