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César Manrique special

Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Besides its vulcanos, Lanzarote is also well known for its outsandig arts and artist. One of them and probably the most popular is César Manrique. The artist and architect was born on April 24th, 1919 in Arrecife, wich is a small town in east of Lanzarote. He grew up in San Ginés lagoon and attended to University of La Laguna. In 1945 he changed and went to a Art School in Madrid.
César Manrique immensly affected the planning regulations of lanzarote, because he saw the potential of natural tourism. He developed the tourism in Lanzarote, how it is know now. He allways had an eye on the mass-tourism of Lanzarote and contained it as far as it was economical. Together with other equal-minded people, he was a precursor of surrealism. He was deeply inpressed, of the fast changing weather conditions in combination of the ...
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