🎨 The Studio – As If César Had Just Stepped Out for a Moment

The most personal space at Casa-Museo is César Manrique's studio, located in a separate building surrounded by the garden. This is where the artist painted during the final years of his life.

After his death in 1992, the studio was preserved with great care to maintain its authentic character. His easels, tables, brushes, pigments, drawings and working materials remain here, along with paintings that were in his studio at the time.

As a result, the studio does not feel like a typical museum exhibition. Instead, it feels as though the work was suddenly interrupted. It is easy to imagine Manrique standing in front of a canvas, mixing colours or setting his brush down on the table.

More than anywhere else, this is where you can feel the difference between visiting a museum dedicated to an artist and stepping into the space where he actually worked.

It feels as though César has simply stepped out for a moment and might return to his work at any time.

🌿 A Home Completely Different from Tahíche

The two houses are located only a short distance apart on Lanzarote, yet they could hardly be more different. Tahíche impresses with its scale and ingenious use of solidified lava and natural volcanic spaces. Haría is quieter, more intimate and more private.

In Tahíche, Manrique created an extraordinary space that became a work of art in its own right. The house was built on a lava field, and its most distinctive interiors make use of natural volcanic bubbles hidden beneath the surface.

Haría is different. Here, the starting point was an old rural house, a garden and the surrounding greenery. Instead of black lava, the setting is dominated by palm trees, wood, stone and calm, light-filled interiors.

The difference also reflects the purpose of the two places. The house in Tahíche was created earlier and became one of the clearest examples of Manrique's approach to architecture and nature. Haría, by contrast, was the home he chose for the final stage of his life – a more personal place where he wanted to live and work.

Both are well worth visiting. Tahíche helps you understand Manrique as an artist and creator. Haría brings you closer to Manrique as a person.

🚪 The House Becomes a Museum

After César Manrique's death, his home in Haría remained closed to visitors for many years. The Fundación César Manrique wanted to open it to the public without losing the private character of the place that the artist had created primarily for himself.

In 2003, the house was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural, recognising its special importance to cultural heritage. It was not until ten years later, in 2013, after the building had been carefully prepared, that Casa-Museo César Manrique opened to visitors.

Rather than creating a typical museum presenting the artist's life in chronological order, the house itself became the main exhibit – its interiors, furnishings, garden and Manrique's personal belongings. His studio is particularly significant, offering a glimpse into the space where he worked every day.

As a result, Casa-Museo has preserved something that photographs and museum display cases could never recreate. Visitors can step inside the place Manrique chose as his final home and experience the world he surrounded himself with in everyday life.

📖 Find Out More…

At Jameos del Agua, you'll discover César Manrique's vision; in Tahíche, you'll see his extraordinary approach to design; and in Haría, you'll step into his private world.

👉 In the guidebook Lanzarote with César Manrique, you'll find information on what to look out for during your visit to Casa-Museo, whether it is worth visiting and how to plan your visit. You'll also get GPS coordinates, parking information, opening hours, ticket prices and practical tips.

🪑 Objects That Tell the Story of Their Owner

In the house in Haría, it is worth looking beyond the paintings and architecture. The objects Manrique surrounded himself with in everyday life reveal just as much about him. The interiors have retained their personal character, so they do not feel like spaces arranged solely for the purposes of a museum.

Manrique enjoyed combining works of art, handicrafts, ceramics and objects found in nature. He was fascinated by the unusual shapes of stones, wood and other materials, often seeing something more in them than an ordinary object.

The house also contains furniture and interior elements designed by Manrique himself, alongside far more personal belongings – books, photographs and objects connected with his everyday life.

It is worth taking the time to look at them closely. Manrique's major projects show how he wanted to transform Lanzarote. The objects left behind in his home tell a different story – they reveal what he himself considered beautiful and what he chose to surround himself with every day.

🕯️ The Final Years of Manrique's Life

César Manrique moved to Haría in 1988. He was almost 70 years old and had decades of artistic work behind him, as well as numerous projects that had forever changed the landscape of Lanzarote. This did not mean, however, that he withdrew from active life – he continued to paint, design and involve himself in matters concerning the island.

The house among the palms became his private retreat. Here he relaxed, met with friends and worked in the studio beside the house. At the same time, he became increasingly outspoken in his opposition to excessive development on Lanzarote and the direction in which mass tourism was beginning to take the island.

On 25 September 1992, César Manrique was killed in a car accident in Tahíche, just a few dozen metres from his former home, which had opened a few months earlier as the headquarters of the Fundación César Manrique. That day, he never returned to his home in Haría or to his studio.

This gives a visit to Casa-Museo a particularly poignant character. Rather than seeing a house arranged many years later for the purposes of an exhibition, we are entering a place closely connected with the final period of the artist's life.

Manrique's story ended in 1992, but his home in Haría allows us to glimpse the world he left behind.

🏚️The House Was Created from an Old Farmstead

When César Manrique bought the property in Haría, the remains of an old rural house stood on the land. Rather than demolishing it and starting from scratch, he decided to make use of what was already there.

During the renovation, he preserved some of the old walls and traditional features, complementing them with new elements. The result was a home that combined traditional Lanzarote architecture with the comforts of modern living – whitewashed walls, stone, wood, courtyards and vegetation that seems to flow almost seamlessly into the interior.

This approach was very characteristic of Manrique. He did not try to impose his own design on a place – first, he looked at what was already there, and only then did he add something of his own.

That is why Casa-Museo in Haría does not feel like a spectacular artist's residence. It is more intimate and peaceful. Above all, Manrique created a home here in which he himself wanted to live.

🏡 How César Manrique Lived

Casa-Museo offers a completely different perspective on Manrique from his monumental creations across Lanzarote. Here, he was not designing for tourists – he was creating a space for himself.

You can see his living room, bedroom, kitchen and the places where he relaxed and welcomed guests. The house still contains furniture, personal belongings, works of art and objects he enjoyed surrounding himself with. He designed many of the furnishings himself, while others were carefully sought out and collected.

The interiors are bright and simple, yet far from austere. White walls are combined with wood and stone, while lush vegetation enters the house through windows and open spaces. The boundary between indoors and the garden almost disappears – just as it does in many of Manrique's other designs.

It is worth paying attention to the small details. They reveal perhaps the most about the man who lived here: objects found during walks, ceramics, photographs, books and small works of art.

Casa-Museo therefore shows much more than simply what the home of a famous artist looked like. It reveals the objects he chose, the things he surrounded himself with and the kind of space in which he wanted to spend his everyday life.

This is perhaps one of the few places on Lanzarote where César Manrique stops being simply the name behind another of the island's attractions and becomes, instead, a man living in his own home.

🌴 Casa-Museo César Manrique – The Artist's Final Home in Haría

This is not another of César Manrique's great creations designed to impress visitors. This is the place he chose for himself. Here, during the final years of his life, he lived, ate, relaxed, welcomed guests and worked.

After years spent in his extraordinary home built among the lava fields of Tahíche, Manrique moved to the green surroundings of Haría. He settled among the palm trees, in a house that was far more intimate and personal.

Today, you can step inside his private living spaces, see the objects he surrounded himself with and visit his studio. Casa-Museo in Haría therefore offers a glimpse not only of César Manrique the artist, but also of César Manrique the man.

📖 Find Out More…

In the guidebook Lanzarote with César Manrique, you'll discover the artist's story and see how his life, ideas and the places he created evolved over time.

In Haría, we'll step inside his final home and private studio – a place that reveals Manrique not only as an artist, but also as a person.

🌴 Why Did Manrique Choose Haría?

After years of living in his extraordinary home in Tahíche, César Manrique began looking for somewhere quieter and more intimate. He found it in the north of Lanzarote, in Haría – a small village nestled in a green valley surrounded by volcanic hills.

Haría is very different from the rugged landscapes found elsewhere on the island. Thanks to its local microclimate, vegetation is much more abundant here, while its characteristic palm trees have earned the area the name Valley of a Thousand Palms – Valle de las Mil Palmeras.

Manrique had known this place for many years. In the 1970s, he bought a plot of land in Haría with an old, ruined farmhouse. It was not until 1986 that he began renovating it, preserving the existing walls and combining traditional Lanzarote architecture with his own distinctive approach to design.

In 1988, he left his famous home in Tahíche and moved here permanently. In Haría, he found what he needed at that stage of his life – greenery, tranquillity, space to work and a more private place to live.

It is no coincidence that his final home is sometimes known as Casa del Palmeral – the House among the Palms. After the spectacular house in Tahíche, built amid black lava, Manrique chose a completely different setting for the final years of his life – a green valley in the north of his beloved island.