Dick and the Lanzarote Guide both recommended the Teguise Market on Sunday morning. We were only there for one Sunday, so we went. It is, it has to be said, a pretty big market, spreading as it does through the whole village/town. And although a good deal of the wares on sale were Chinese and/or plastic there seemed to be a fair amount of locally-produced goods on offer both food and crafts. We parked a little outside the place and walked in, passing by a house in which were displayed some copies of statuettes made by the original inhabitants of the island, the Guanches. That would have been OK, but the owner of the property had been overtaken by delirium - probably caused by the 361 days of sunshine the island experiences per annum - and had crammed the former garden with hundreds of artefacts of decreasing cultural content. Here is one.
There are still a number of these windmills on the island. There is a shortage of water power there, but no particular shortage of wind. As you can see, aesthetic values score fairly low down when virtually all building materials have to be imported.
Teguise was formerly the island's capital (since removed to Arrecife) and the Spanish colonial style is still evident there.
Inside the church (packed with curious visitors) was this curious Christ on the Cross, badly in need of a haircut. Is there a story here?
I can't remember what this statue was about. I know it was pretty difficult to photograph, with all the traffic going past.
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