Lancelot 1 2 Lancelot Lancelot 3 4 Lancelot EDITORIAL CONTENTS “Treat the Earth well. It was not a Editorial ......................................................................5 Reader’s Letters ..................................................... 6-10 gift to you from your parents, it is Brexit Info from Dominic Raab ..................................12 British Ambassador Hugh Elliot .................................13 on loan to you from your children.” Brexit Consular Activities at Town Halls .............. 14-15 Kenyan proverb Increased Taxes for 2020 ............................................16 Property Guide ...........................................................17 1919-2019 César Manrique Round the Island by Car ...................................... 18-23 Blas Cabrera Felipe and Albert Einstein ................ 24-27 and the Tourist Centres The XVI Visual Music Festival .............................. 28-31 Tourism Federation and Eco-Friendly Hotels ........ 32-43 elcome to Lanzarote and welcome to Lance- Health – Pain Management Unit .................................44 Tourist Centres ..................................................... 48-49 lot, the island’s quality magazine. Lanzarote W Eating Out ........................................................... 50-53 has been celebrating the centenary of the birth of Royal Visit to the Manrique Foundation .............. 54-55 its greatest citizen, César Manrique, which will con- WTM London – Recovering Tourism ................... 56-57 tinue until April 2020. Among the highest tributes World Tourism Day Distinctions .......................... 58-59 paid to his memory was the visit of King Felipe VI Pepin Ramirez-César Manrique biography ............ 60-61 of Spain who spent almost two hours visiting the Los Dolores Arts & Crafts Exhibition .................. 62-63 special exhibition mounted of the life and works of Mararia Celebrates 25th Anniversary .................... 64-65 the artist. The royal reaction was “Highly recom- Lanzarote News Roundup .................................... 66-85 mendable!” Canarian Government Observatory and Brian May .. 66-67 The attraction he created for Lanzarote is what Cabildo Reports ................................................... 68-73 Tias District – Puerto del Carmen ......................... 74-75 has given this island its unique identity and will re- Yaiza District – Playa Blanca ................................. 76-77 main so forever. The Sunday Times wrote at the be- San Bartolomé – Playa Honda .............................. 78-79 ginning the year 2,000, “César Manrique was 15 Arrecife – Manrique Honored in the Capital ......... 80-81 years ahead of the rest of Europe in his creation of Teguise Town – Costa Teguise ............................... 82-83 space specific sites. Each of them is located on a spot Haria Town and Countryside ................................ 84-85 which had always been there, what the artist did was PhotoNews Items ................................................. 86-90 to frame it – he protected the environment from the Tourist Information ....................................................91 very day a spade began digging out the first piece of Bridge and Simple Crossword ....................................92 earth for a tourist centre. General Crossword – Local Organisations ..................93 Jameos del Agua had been an underground ca- Exhibitions – Concerts - Carnival Procession Dates ...94 Geopark Lanzarote Ecological Status ..........................96 vern housing a lake full of boulders which had an aperture in the roof through which locals would throw their rubbish. The Mirador del Rio belvedere had been a military observation port guarding the straights between Lanzarote and La Graciosa. The Cactus Garden had been a stone quarry abandoned for over two centuries when he began converting it President: Antonio Coll into one of the most beautiful garden in the world Lancelot Medios General Manager: Javier Betancort for cacti and succulents. And the Castillo de San Director Lancelot TV: Jorge Coll José was a fort built in 1799 and later used as a mi- Honorary Editor: Larry Yaskiel litary ammunition dump but converted by the artist Advertising and Layout: Liz Yaskiel into the Museum of Modern Art in 1974. Graphic Design: Betty Romero Having enjoyed your visit you may think of buying Photography: Jesús Betancort holiday-cum retirement home, located only a few Avda. Mancomunidad s/n (Arrecife Gran Hotel) hours from most of Europe’s capitals and with sun- 35500 Arrecife - Lanzarote shine all year round, you can´t go wrong. Wishing Tel: 928 51 20 26 e-mail: [email protected] you a safe journey home and a Happy New Year. Published quarterly: 1 March, 1 June, 1 September, Whilst every attempt is made to ensure that articles and 1 December. No part of this magazine may be reproduced or advertisements are factually correct, the publishers and broadcast without the written consent of the Publisher. printers cannot be held responsible for any errors or omis- Copyright LANCELOT. Depósito Legal GC 846-2014 sions. Intending purchasers must satisfy themselves by Distibution: Totaldis - Printed by Minerva, Lanzarote inspection or otherwise of each of their statements. No. 151, 2020 http://www.lancelot.es/prensa.php e-mail:[email protected] Lancelot 5 LETTERS TO LANCELOT th 32 at London Docks because of Eleanora’s Falcon the large amount of fruit and vege- Dear Sir, tables unloaded at this quay by a I am a great bird lover and was subsidiary of Fred Olsen Shipping fascinated to read how the local for the past forty years, especially authorities came to the rescue of a during the winter months. At their flock of migrating Eleanora’s Fal- specific request the Port Authority cons by filling up the reservoirs they named it Canary Wharf. From the use on their stopovers twice yearly beginning of the 19th century the on the tiny island of Alegranza, off WTM London entire area formed a major part of Excel Centre Lanzarote’s north coast. Do you London Docklands at a time when have any more information about Canary Wharf it was one the world’s busiest har- migratory birds which regularly vi- Dear Sir, bours. After the 1960s, the port in- sit the Canary Islands?. What is the connection between dustry began to decline leading to the Excel exhibition centre at Ca- all the docks closing by 1981. Heinrich Steiner nary Wharf, where the World Travel Trade connections between the Bockenheimerlandstrs 14 Market was held in November, and two island groups began in the mid- D-60325 Frankfurt am Main the Canary Islands? 1880s when Alfred L. Jones, head Germany of the Liverpool-based Elder De- Charles and Sheila Rupert mpster Shipping Line established GUINEVERE It took place during 34, Castle Street, a coaling station at Las Palmas for September when these falcons fly on Macclesfield, his ships travelling to South Africa. their homeward migratory route. Cheshire SK11 6AW Realising that his homeward bound According to zoologists Horst Wi- UK vessels were empty of cargo he deci- lkens and Elrike Strecker, there are ded to take on board fruit and vegeta- two main migration routes con- GUINEVERE In 1936, this dock- bles cultivated in the CanaryIslands necting Europe with Africa. The side area took its name from Ber- for the market in the UK. Western European route runs via 6 Lancelot LETTERS TO LANCELOT western France, the Iberian Penin- excellent magazine in the villa we possession, Portugal stepped in and sula, the Straights of Gibraltar and rented and were delighted to read laid claim to the archipelago on the the West Africa coast. The Canary that Lanzarote and the other Ca- basis of the earlier exploration by Islands are thus lying on the outer nary Islands were discovered by a Henry the Navigator. Both coun- edge of this migratory route and French nobleman Jean de Bethen- tries argued their cases before Pope many European summer birds cross court in 1402. My question is, if Boniface IX in Rome for arbitration geographical barriers on their way that is the case, why do the Canary and he decided in favour of Spain. to their African winter quarters. Islands belong to Spain and not to We should add that the Normans Lanzarote, located a mere 100 France? did not actually “discover” the Ca- km off the African coast, is thus re- naries which had been known since gularly touched by the migratory Colette and Jacques Dupont Roman times but what their “redis- movement of birds, including a 55 Quai Jean Moulin covery” did achieve was to bring number of species which shorten the 69002 Lyon the region to the attention of the long route via Gibraltar by directly France major European Powers at the be- crossing the Atlantic from Portugal ginning of the 15th century having towards the Canary Islands. More GUINEVERE. The one word re- appeared on a map for the first time information on the subject can be ply is “money.” Before embarking in 1339. found in the above mentioned au- on his voyage of discovery, Bethen- thors’ book “Blind Crabs, Hoopoes court had asked his monarch King Miniature Guitar and Volcanoes.” Philip III for financial assistance but Dear Sir, was turned down. He then presen- I and my family had a wonder- “Bon Jour Islas Canarias” ted his case to Henry III of Castile ful time at the Los Dolores Festi- Dear Sir, who agreed to subsidise the expedi- val at Mancha Blanca in September. My husband and I are French tion on the condition that any terri- We normally come for Easter and and we came on holiday to Lanza-