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Land and People of Lanzarote and the Canarian Archipelago

First Impressions

Land and People of Lanzarote and the Canarian Archipelago

Lanzarote is no ordinary island. Formed by volcanic eruptions, this isle is unique and original. The very earth is turned inside out, more than a third of the island is covered by black lava and grey tuff, clinker and volcanic sand. Streams of lava, hardened over the years, but still seemingly fluid in appearance, thread their way through the barren earth. ...

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Mythological backgrounds

Land and People of Lanzarote and the Canarian Archipelago

The Canary Islands. Situated on the Tropic of Cancer. The archipelago of eternal spring. The Elysian Fields. The Garden of the Hesperidins. The island of the Saints. According to the tales of Herodotus, in whose time the earth was still thought to be a disc, its edge signalled by violent waves, writhing above seafarers, the point where the world ended and the seas were no longer master able. Here at the end of the inhabited world; the islands of eternal luck, the “Pupurariae”, Atlantis.

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