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| Lanzarote of the Canary Islands | ||||||||||||
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| The discovery of Lanzarote was by an Italian seafarer Lancelloto Malocello in the 1300's. In the fifteenth century a Norman nobleman by the name of Jean de Bethencourt, acting for Enrique III of Castlle, brought the island under Spanish rule and providing protection to the inhabitants from pirates that often raided the island. Peace followed until the desposal of Bethencourts tyrant son and the pirates returned. Pirates like Jean Florin and 'Peg Leg' LeClerc, Sir John Hawkins, John Poole and Sir Walter Raleigh. Many were mudered or carried away as slaves. Such was the daily life and fears of the islanders. Then in 1730 and for the six years that followed, the eruptions of thirty volcanic cones took place, burying villages and covering one third of the island in a thirty-three feet thick layer of lava and dust. This total area today is called 'Fire Mountains' and make up the Timanfaya National Park. It was after these eruptions that mass immigration began, not only from Lancarote but the whole of the Canary Islands to Spanish colonies around the world, such as the family of Juan Leal Goraz. Today the island is beautiful with the quaint whitewashed houses and the abundance of floral growth but still desolate and volcanic at one end and desolate and sandy at the other end. Making it the ideal location for the first in a series of movies to be filmed. That first movie was 'The Planet of the Apes'. |
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