Visit Historic Places with Your Cheap Holidays to Lanzarote
by Daisy Wilkinson Travel GuidesA Spanish island located in the Atlantic Ocean,
Lanzarote is one of the Canary Islands located off the African north coast. It
is the fourth largest of all the islands in the archipelago of Canary Islands. One
of its main attractions is the Timanfaya National Park, located in the
centre-west of the island. According to the historical records, this island was
first named Insula de Lanzarotus Marocelus. In the native language, the name of
this island was Tyterogaka or Tytheroygaka, which literally translates as 'one
that is all ochre'. This refers to the predominant ochre shades of the island, which
you’ll get to see at several places.
Your cheap
holidays to Lanzarote would give you the chance to explore the island's
interesting history. The first human settlement in the whole of Canary Islands
happened on this particular island. Although there is no material evidence,
many believe that the first to settle on the island were the Phoenicians. Pliny
the Elder, a Roman author, was the first to record the existence of this
island. Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the islands of the
Canaries were largely ignored until the end of the 10th century, when the Arabs
arrived on Lanzarote and named it 'al-Djezir al-Khalida'.
In the year 1336, a ship arrived at the island from
Lisbon under the guidance of Lancelotto Malocello, a Genoese navigator who was
known by the alias 'Lanzarote da Framqua'. You'll get to visit a fort that was
later built in the Montana de Guanapay area during your Lanzarote holidays. During the years 1385 and 1393, many of the
members of Majos tribe of the Guanches were captured and sold as slaves in
Spain. In the early 15th century, the Castilians fought the local Guanches and
conquered the island. They ruled over the island until the end of the 18th
century.
During the years 1730 to 1736, this island was
devastated by a series of volcanic eruptions, which were documented in detail
by Don Andres Lorenzo Curbelo, the priest of Yaiza. During your Lanzarote
holidays, you'll be able to know the things that he documented
during the guided tours. As a result of these eruptions, a quarter of
Lanzarote's surface was covered by lava, thus destroying the fertile soil and
11 villages. Many of the inhabitants of the island were forced to migrate to
the Americas and Cuba owing to the destruction caused by these volcanic
eruptions.
Lanzarote and Fuerteventura became a part of the Las
Palmas province in the year 1927. In the following years, many archaeological
expeditions were carried out in the village of Teguise. A team from the
University of Zaragoza and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
discovered about a hundred Roman potsherds, a piece of glass, and 9 pieces of
metal. These archaeological finds point out to the fact that the Romans traded
with the inhabitants of the Canary Islands, although evidence of this has not
been established yet. In recent times, the island of Lanzarote has been
declared as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
You can also explore some fantastic attractions during
your US holidays.
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