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Surroundings: - Playa Blanca Villa Reche is in one of the best zones of Lanzarote, concretely in Playa Blanca, pertaining to the municipality of Yaiza, located in the South zone of the island. Playa Blanca is the marine bridge of communication between Lanzarote and the near island of Fuerteventura by the strait of the Bocaina and from there with the rest of the Canary Islands. Colonised by inhabitants coming from the island of Papagayo and Fuerteventura in the dawn of the S.XX, it was and still today it continues being, a traditionally marine town. The singular whiteness of their houses, the peculiar marine aroma of their streets and the conservation and the respect by their popular architecture, besides its privileged geographic situation and its climatology makes Playa Blanca an ideal place to enjoy holidays at any time of the year. - Yaiza In Yaiza, in the zone of the Rubicón, the first Franc-Normand town was based, beginning from this place the conquest. Nevertheless, the pirate attacks forced the inhabitants of this population to take refuge in a more elevated and interior place, Femés. In year 1,741 the Águila Tower or Las Coloradas, in Playa Blanca, was constructed, that was destroyed and reformed later during the mandate of Carlos III. After centuries of establishment of the population in Femés, Yaiza begins to recover importance and it becomes an agricultural town. But in year 1,730 the population returned to leave this town, and it moved to Femés, by the fear to the action of the volcanos of the zone of Timanfaya, that were in eruption from that this year until seven years later, destroying eleven towns. - What to visit The Parish of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad is a hermitage of year 1,699 but it was reformed several times until becoming as we know it today. The San Marcial Church constructed at the beginning of XVII century with the characteristics of the popular architecture of the island. Águila Tower or Las Coloradas, located in Playa Blanca, it is the unique defensive bastion that was constructed in the south of Lanzarote in XVIII century. Near of Yaiza we can find places of extraordinary natural beauty: El Golfo, whose name is this because of the seafood that lived in its waters, is the cone of a volcano that has inside a lagoon of green color. Los Hervideros, caves on which the waves of the sea hit as much force which they seem to boil and the Salt mines of the Janubio - formerly the most important source of income of the island - that at the moment is in recovery process. |
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