Lanzarote's other-worldly volcanic landscape is one of the most dramatic on the planet and is in danger of being consumed by package-deal tourism. While vast expanses of Lanzarote are protected by a national park and several preserves and Unesco designated it a Reserve of the Biosphere in 1994, there is still the quiet creep of development.
The Bar Cueva in Nazaret is in a house Manrique designed for Omar Sharif in the 70's.
The easternmost of the Canary Islands, part of Spain about 100 miles off the coast of Africa, Lanzarote is nearly 40 miles long, culturally rich and blessed with an average temperature of 72 degrees, which may be why its expatriate community ranges from surfers to the Portuguese Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago.
For visitors, the island's mix of natural beauty, white-sand beaches and quirky lava-rock-studded architecture are usually enough to necessitate the purchase of an extra photo card during a weeklong visit. Much of that architecture is the work of César Manrique (1912-1992), a local artist and architect who set out to save the island from the destructive forces of mass tourism storming the Spanish coast in the 1960's.
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