The Castillo de San José perches on a rocky outcrop overlooking Lanzarote's busy commercial port. Once the most important military buildings on the island, it is now one of the island's seven centres of art, culture and tourism created by César Manrique. The museum's director, María José Alcántara, took time to show us around Lanzarote's most important collection of modern art.

Playa Honda is the second-largest town on Lanzarote, but many tourists barely know it exists. That's their loss, because this is a place that's definitely worth discovering.

When Lanzarote has been drenched a good few times, gardeners, farmers and sightseers enjoy a brief paradise of greenery and flowers. A wide range of daisies, vetches, violets, mustard, bugloss and other flowers pop up during this brief period. Here’s where you can spot them.