Jardín de Cactus
- Location
- Lanzarote, Spain
- Continent
- Europe
- Date
- August 2019
- Photographer
- Merche Mateo
- Coordinates
- 29.0805, -13.4764
El Jardín de Cactus is a cactarium, a cactus garden designed in 1991 by the artist César Manrique. It is situated in Lanzarote a volcanic island, part of the Canary Islands archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
“Jardín de Cactus has around 4,500 specimens of 450 different species, of 13 different families of cactus from the five continents”
The artist from Lanzarote could see beyond how run down the ancient rofera was. Roferas were the quarries that raids are taken from to create a very particular home for cactaceae flowers from all over he world.
The garden is in the shape of a large amphitheatre, with the plants arranged in terraces. A restored windmill, once used in the production of gofio, stands at the highest point.
César Manrique (Arrecife, Lanzarote, April 24, 1919 / Teguise, Lanzarote, September 25, 1992) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and artist. He combined his work with the defense of the environmental values of the Canary Islands. He sought harmony between art and nature as a creative space. He obtained, among others, the World Prize for Ecology and Tourism and the Europe Prize.
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