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Barbara Rogers

Barbara Radcliffe Rogers is the co-author of CitySpots Milan, Travellers Lanzarote & Fuerteventura, AA Sardinia and eight other guidebooks to Spain, Portugal and Italy. She covers Italy for Planetware and writes regularly for Global Traveler, Destinations, WhereverFamily and BellaOnline, and blogs about culinary travel at Worldbite.

César Manrique: The Art of Nature in Lanzarote, Spain

Thanks to the artist/architect César Manrique, Lanzarote, Spain has been transformed from a volcanic wasteland into art, preserving both its character and its natural environment. Although Lanzarote’s history of volcanic devastation from seven years of unrelenting eruptions in the 1700s left it a forbidding place, covered in rough lava and layers of volcanic ash, Manrique saw …

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Volcanoes and Art in Lanzarote, Spain

Not as well known as the larger Canary Islands, Lanzarote, Spain is perhaps the most fascinating. A week’s worth of attractions make up for its having fewer beaches than its more sand-surrounded neighbors. Two separate factors contribute to the abundance of things to do there. The first was six years of continuous volcanic eruptions in …

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A Lot to Love in Spain’s Andalucia

Only a thorough-going sourpuss could fail to find something to love about Andalucia. Spain’s southwestern region encompasses so much of the country’s natural, historic and cultural largesse that it hardly seems fair to the rest. The Treasures of Andalucia Just the most obvious ones make an ambitious itinerary: The Alhambra, the Great Mosque of Cordoba, …

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