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This romantic garden of 4,000 square meters was created in 1788 and has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest since 2008. It is located behind the La Orotava Town Hall building.

The cloud of talcum powder reaches the third floor of the houses on Calle Real de Santa Cruz de La Palma.

Located in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, next to the Church of La Concepción, is the Cayetano Gómez Felipe House Museum, a traditional Canarian house dating from the 18th century. It exhibits a large collection of antiques on art and customs in the Canary Islands. Cayetano Gómez Felipe, from Los Llanos de Aridane, was one of the greatest collectors of the 20th century in the Canary Islands. It can be visited from Tuesday to Thursday from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, Friday and Saturday from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm, and Sunday from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.

The Vino La Baranda House is an old 17th century Canarian hacienda whose owner, the Cabildo of Tenerife, has set aside for the promotion of the island's quality wines. It houses the Island Museum of the Vine and Wine of Tenerife. In its tasting room you can savor the wines of the five denominations of origin of the island and buy them in its wine cellar and store. Enjoy an extensive program of cultural activities: concerts, conferences, tasting courses, exhibitions, etc. It also has restaurants and tasca, where you will have the opportunity to taste the new creative Canarian cuisine, rescuing the old traditional recipes of the islands. La Casa del Vino, también dispone de sala de proyecciones y de exposición, Restaurante y Tasca, Terraza, un antiguo lagar en su patio central y parking propio.

About 400 m northeast from “Baja del Secreto”, there is a diving spot with a picturesque seascape, encompassing an ample number of species representative of the marine biodiversity of the Canary Islands. Two large rocky ledges, starting at 15 m depth, drop off up to 50 m depth. All range of SCUBA diving levels may be practised here, taking advantage of the many faunal surprises this zone has.

The tropical climate, its trade winds and the mineral richness of its volcanic soils make Lanzarote one of the best places for the cultivation of aloe vera. The use of this plant, known for its beneficial properties, is increasingly widespread throughout the world. For the Canary Islands it is so important that there are six museums (Arrieta, Punta Mujeres, Yaiza, Teguise, La Graciosa and La Esperanza) that revolve around aloe vera. The museum, which has been declared a Center of Tourist and Cultural Interest, has several panels that tell the history and culture surrounding this plant, as well as the production system used for cultivation and harvesting. These panels also show the different types of uses for the latter, including therapeutic applications for the skin and cardiovascular system. The center also has an audiovisual room.

"A house made of books": this is how Jose Saramago (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988) defined his home in Lanzarote. Now the space has been converted into a house-museum where you can delve into his work and the space in which he lived during the last 18 years of his life. You can enjoy the library with a large collection of books; the garden (his resting place); the bedroom and the galleries, where he wrote the first lines of Blindness. This intimate place can be visited from Monday to Friday between 10:00 am and 1:30 pm.

Benehauno is the right place for lovers of prehistory and its symbols. This is an interpretation center for the pre-Hispanic petroglyph (symbolic design engraved in rock) stations found in El Paso. Inside, it houses an extensive exhibition of informative panels, audiovisual content and original archaeological pieces, including a hundred or so rock engraving stations such as those of Lomo de Tamarahoya and Lomo Gordo. To these we must add two of the most interesting and beautiful sets of petroglyphs of ancient Benahoare, such as the sites of La Fajana and El Verde.

About 250 m south from “Baja del Secreto”, a mosaic of rocks and sandy bottoms create a place of curious rocky shapes, hiding astonishing animals around. The sandy bottoms provide habitat for garden eels, in contrast with schools of pelagic fishes swimming in the open ocean. A range of rays look after the spot, which offers shelter and food. A range of local fish species, from parrotfish to groupers, find shelter in between big rocks.