Lanzarote Traditions

The observation of life and customs of the people of Lanzarote constitutes a lesson of wisdom for the spectator. Equipped with a past of little means and successful endeavours for survival, the inhabitants of the island of fire have not abandoned the model of coexistence and tight symbiosis with everywhere, independently on the municipality.

It is so much so that around this ancient coexistence habits and customs have developed whose present manifestations are being strongly protected and to which the marvelled traveller has spontaneous access.

Instruments and ceremonies which are new to the visitor but old and of ancient origin such as the timple, the baking tins and the drinking cups on one hand or the canarian wrestling, the Isas and Folías songs on the other complete the ancestral pattern so pleasing to be immersed in.

The accessibility of the natives allows is to assist as guests of honour at such events as the Festivity of the Virgen de los dolores, a display of proverbial colours and pomp which is still strongly ingrined within the people of Lanzarote.

The growing of vine unique in the world, preserves the original characteristics of their proceedings which allows the birth, from a waste and burnt land, of a generous and refined wine, a son of the lava, as strong as the volcano, pampered under ashes that treasure every single drop of dew, so valuable on lands lacking spring water.