Car Hire Lanzarote Spain

Lanzarote an island of big contrast, the Scenery, climate, beaches, and its modern accommodation and the stamp of Cesar Manrique turned the island into an honored destination. Smooth and volcanic, there are ample fields of lava. The earthly surface is approx 905 km square. The annual average temperature goes up to 25C in august and 17C in January.

The island is named after Genoese navigator, Lancelotto Malocello, who came to the island in 1312 and was responsible for introducing it to the European powers of the day. The source of the original population is still uncertain but numerous historians consider that they belonged to a race known as Cro-magnon, who lived in the south west of France many thousands of years ago. Leaving their homes they made their way here via Italy and North Africa. Naming the island Tite-Roy-Gatra and the remains of the castle of one of their aboriginal kings. Zonzomas can still be seen.

Lanzarote may well be in excess of two million years old, but its last volcanic eruption was less than 300 years ago. The landscape today retains a desolate look, but is movingly striking. Amazingly.