César Manrique’s sites in Lanzarote: tickets, prices, hours and a day plan for two

César Manrique, born in Arrecife in 1919, came home from New York in 1966 and, with the Cabildo de Lanzarote, began turning lava tubes, quarries and clifftops into places to visit. Most of them are now run as the island’s Art, Culture and Tourism Centres, the CACT, and they open every day of the year. Two more, his own homes at Tahíche and Haría, belong to the César Manrique Foundation and have their own tickets.

The prices below are the adult and child rates on each organiser’s own ticket page, read on 15 November 2026, the CACT’s with IGIC sales tax included. At the CACT sites children up to 6 go free and children aged 7 to 12 pay half. Lower rates for Canary Islands residents and people with a disability are sold only at the ticket office against physical documents, so most visitors pay the adult price shown here.

One point of history the CACT itself makes: Cueva de los Verdes was adapted by the artist Jesús Soto and opened in 1964, before Manrique’s first centre. It sits on the same lava tube as Jameos del Agua and is sold alongside his sites, so nearly every Manrique day includes it. LagOmar in Nazaret is a private museum, built by its own architects under Manrique’s influence with Soto’s help, and is often added to the same route.

If you have read about the bono, the CACT’s pass for several centres, it no longer exists. The CACT’s own questions page, read on 15 November 2026, says it no longer offers multi-entry passes for several centres, and its online shop now sells single tickets only. Older blogs that quote pass prices are out of date.

Two combined tickets remain. The César Manrique Foundation sells its Tahíche house and the Haría house together for €17, against €20 bought separately: a saving of €3 each, €6 for two, and you have 15 days to visit the second house. It pays as soon as you plan to see both, which the day plan below does. The CACT’s combined Jameos del Agua and Casa de los Volcanes ticket, at €22.40, is not a saving but an add-on: €5.40 more for the volcano museum inside Jameos, about an hour of exhibits on the lava tube and the island’s geology, with a room on Manrique.

The third bundle is a tour. The César Manrique full-day tour on GetYourGuide, from €85 a person on 15 November 2026, includes Jameos del Agua, the Mirador del Río, the Jardín de Cactus and the Foundation at Tahíche, with the free Monumento al Campesino. Those four entries cost €45 a person at the gate, so for two adults €90 of the €170 is tickets and €80 pays for the coach, the pick-up and a guide. Whether that is good value depends on whether you would otherwise hire a car for the day.

Three products on our pages cover this ground, and all three are rated 4.6 or better by hundreds of GetYourGuide reviewers.

The César Manrique full-day tour, from €85, is the only Manrique-themed day that clears our rating bar: 4.6 from 473 reviews. It collects from 24 points in Playa Blanca, Puerto del Carmen, Costa Teguise and Arrecife, runs 8 to 9 hours and visits the Monumento al Campesino, the Mirador del Río, the Jardín de Cactus, Jameos del Agua and the Foundation at Tahíche, with entry included. It is the one to book if the artist is the point of the day. Our César Manrique tour page has the stop times and the pick-up arrangements.

The full-day island highlights tour, from €51, is rated 4.7 by 3,436 reviewers, the most reviewed day on the island. It pairs Cueva de los Verdes and Jameos del Agua in the morning with Timanfaya in the afternoon, so it suits a first visit with one day for everything. The from price has no entry tickets: choose the option with the sites you want inside.

For a short Manrique-style stop on your own, the LagOmar ticket, from €10, is rated 4.7 by 1,271 reviewers and costs the same as the museum’s own general ticket.

The order is set by two things: Cueva de los Verdes is the only site with a fixed entry time, and the Mirador del Río and the Jardín de Cactus close at 5pm, earlier than the sites near Arrecife. Book the cave first, for the earliest slot you can reach, and build the day around it. Jameos del Agua is about 5 minutes away on the same road, so it follows naturally, and the Mirador del Río and Haría sit on the way back south along the ridge.

The Jardín de Cactus at Guatiza works as the last northern stop, with its last admission at 4:30pm. The Foundation at Tahíche, LagOmar and the Castillo de San José are all within 15 minutes of Arrecife and Costa Teguise and open into the late afternoon, which makes them an easy second half day. The Castillo opens latest, at 11am, and its restaurant stays open until 11pm from Wednesday to Saturday, so it can end a day with dinner over the bay.

Visit lengths are the organisers' own guidance. Jameos del Agua takes about an hour, two with the Casa de los Volcanes. The cave tour is about 50 minutes, in a group with explanations in Spanish and English.

With a hire car, the five northern stops fit one unhurried day from Costa Teguise, and the driving adds up to about 95 minutes. The times below are routed drive times without traffic on OpenStreetMap roads, from the Costa Teguise seafront.

Leave at about 9:15am for a 10am slot at Cueva de los Verdes, 28 minutes away. After the cave, drive 5 minutes to Jameos del Agua for the lake, the white pool and the auditorium; its restaurant sits inside the volcanic tube and takes no reservations, so an early lunch here works. Then climb 15 minutes to the Mirador del Río for the view across El Río to La Graciosa, and drop 13 minutes into Haría, the valley of palms, where Manrique built his last home from 1986 and lived until his death in 1992; his studio is kept as he left it. Finish at the Jardín de Cactus, 14 minutes on, before its 4:30pm last entry, and you are back in Costa Teguise 20 minutes later.

For two adults the tickets come to €138: €34 each for the cave and Jameos, €18 each for the Mirador and the Cactus garden, and €34 for the Foundation’s joint ticket, which covers Haría today and Tahíche on another day. From Puerto del Carmen add about 15 minutes each way, and from Playa Blanca about 35: the morning drive to the cave is 43 and 62 minutes.

The second set of Manrique places lies on the edge of Arrecife, and from Costa Teguise or Puerto del Carmen it makes a relaxed morning or afternoon. Start at the Foundation in Tahíche, 14 minutes from Costa Teguise and 22 from Puerto del Carmen: Manrique’s home from 1968 to 1988, built in a lava flow from the 1730 to 1736 eruptions, with an upper floor in the island’s traditional style and a lower floor of five volcanic bubbles joined by tunnels. Your joint ticket from Haría covers it.

LagOmar is 7 minutes on, in Nazaret: a former quarry of caves, tunnels, terraces and pools, with a café and a bar in a cave. Then drive 15 minutes to the Castillo de San José, an 18th-century fortress on the harbour that Manrique proposed turning into a museum in the mid-1970s. The International Museum of Contemporary Art opened there in 1976, with works by Manolo Millares, Tàpies and Miró among Canarian painters, and its glass-walled restaurant looks over the bay. The free Monumento al Campesino, in the centre of the island at Mozaga, is 15 minutes from LagOmar if you want a fourth stop.

For two adults this half day costs €30.80: €20 at LagOmar and €10.80 at the Castillo, with the Foundation already paid. Bought on its own, the Foundation is €20 for two, and the whole Manrique set across both days comes to €168.80.

Buy the CACT centres online from the CACT’s own shop; LagOmar also sells online, and the Foundation’s two houses have their own ticket desks. Cueva de los Verdes and Timanfaya are sold only online, for a fixed date and time, and the cave asks you to arrive 15 minutes early. The other CACT tickets have no date: each is valid for one entry within three months, so you can buy the whole set before you fly and choose the day when the weather suits. One QR code covers everyone on a booking, and the group enters together. You do not need to print it: save it to your phone.

The catch is flexibility. The CACT’s general terms allow no changes or refunds once you have paid, and a cave ticket is lost if you arrive after your slot, so book the cave once your day is fixed and buy the open-date tickets with confidence. The GetYourGuide tours, by contrast, cancel free up to 24 hours before.

A few practical points. The cave has low ceilings in places, so people over 1.80 metres should mind their heads. Neither the cave nor Jameos del Agua allows pushchairs, so bring a baby carrier. The Mirador del Río is recognised as accessible apart from its upper floor, and the Jardín de Cactus has been adapted for reduced mobility, though its stone paths are uneven. Wear shoes with grip: most routes run over volcanic stone, and at high tide the lake at Jameos can cover part of the walkway.

Costa Teguise is the closest resort to almost everything here: 14 minutes from the Foundation, 20 from the Jardín de Cactus and 28 from Cueva de los Verdes, against 62 minutes to the cave from Playa Blanca. It is also on the pick-up route of both full-day tours above. Our guide to the best hotels in Costa Teguise sets out its picks by type of stay, and its one five-star is Paradisus Salinas Lanzarote.

Arrecife is the other short base, a few minutes from the Castillo de San José and close to the airport. For a stay among the sites themselves, two small houses inland put you in Manrique’s own landscape: a palace hotel of nine rooms in the old capital, Teguise, and an eight-room mansion in Haría, a short drive from the Mirador del Río. Prices on the cards are Expedia’s average per night for two adults for the week from 11 May 2027, read on 15 November 2026.