19 Mirador del Rio is located at the bottom of the cliff down from the village of Yé Credit: Alamy Hidden beaches, away from all the tourists ...

Further north, the architecturally impressive Mirador del Rio is perched atop cliffs overlooking La Graciosa, a habited island with no roads.

The Mirador del Rio (00 34 928 526 548), hewn from cliffs in the far north of the island, offers leg-quivering views out over the north of Lanzarote and across to the island of La Graciosa.

10:42, 28 Jun 2018 Updated 10:42, 28 Jun 2018 Graciosa island from Mirador del rio in Lanzarote (Image: iStockphoto) ...

If you cannot get enough of Manrique – understandable as his work is sublime – hire a car and as well as the Art Museum check out Mirador del Rio, perched at an altitude of 400m.

In the mid-60s he returned to Lanzarote and created unique attractions combining nature and architecture. His best known creations are the Cactus Garden, the Mirador del Rio, Jameos del Agua and ...

A multi-faceted artist from the Canaries, César Manrique transformed the volcanic island of Lanzarote into a petri dish of aesthetic experimentation in the 1960s: from his troglodytic house in Tahíche ...