Tinajo Live Cam

A host of sporting activities for people of all ages and abilities. A range of leisure facilities like bars, restaurants, disco, crazy golf, swimming pools. A calm, sheltered lagoon with a safe sandy beach. A great environment for children where they are well entertained and looked after.

Where the sports skills, the professional help and advice of the Green Team are always available, but never imposed. You will actually feel free to do as much or as little as you like! All this and great deal more is here for everyone enjoy on holiday in the superbly laid out, spacious surroundings of Club La Santa. Club La Santa lies on the coast in one of the most scheduled parts of Lanzarote.

Over 26 sports and leisure facilities free of charge The climate is perfect for people to take part in outdoor activities all the year round. Or just to take it easy in the sunshine, even in December or January! And forget about the need to carry much money, too. Because so much is free! The free use of the facilities is included in the accommodation prices, and also group instructions of different sports given in English. Both adults and children activities are part of the daily programme.

The complex was built in 1972 by the major bank of the Canary Islands, La Caja Insular de Ahorros de Canarias, with Juan Manuel Ruiz de la Prada as architect. But the bank being interested in other projects and developments, did not dedicate much attention to the place, and it started getting big economic problems, and stayed empty for many years.

In 1982, the Danish touroperator Tjæreborg’s attention was drawn to the island of Lanzarote as a new tourist destination, and bought the buildings of what was to become Club La Santa. Tjæereborg’s owner and the Pastor Eilif Krogager, decided to transform the place into a sports and holiday resort, and started building the sports facilities.

By June 1983, La Santa Sport, later renamed Club La Santa, opened its doors. Since the opening of the resort, Club La Santa has been visited by many families on holiday, but also by numerous famous athletes either on holiday or on training sessions.

Lanzarote is the most North-Westerly island of the Canary Archipielago, situated approximately 1000 kms. From the Spanish mainland and about 100 kms. From the coast of Africa. The fact that the islanders have managed to resist the destructive effects of large scale tourism, maintaining their traditional agricultural and fishing activities, are factors that led UNESCO to declare Lanzarote a World Biosphere Reserve in 1992.

Firemountains Timanfaya. Fifty-one square kilometers of volcano and lava field have been turned into a National Park, and there is nothing quite like it anywhere else in the world. Just a must.

El Golfo, with its green lagoon, where the mineral content of the trapped sea water gives it a distinctive enerald colour. Also restaurants serving locally caught fish, and amazing sunsets.

Jameos del Agua, beautiful lava tunnel with open pits, converted into a complex of restaurants, concert hall and discotheque by César Manrique, Cueva de los Verdes (The Green Caves) an underground lava tunnel maintained as original as possible, Jardín de Cactus, cactus garden dreated by César Manrique.

Mirador del Río, Another of Manrique’s creations, it is a lookout point at the north end of the island, hundreds of feet above the sea level, offering a breathtaking view over the smaller island of La Graciosa, also called the 8th Canary island, this small island on the north of Lanzarote is living exclusively from fishing and rural tourism (no hotels), La Geria, natural park for its beautiful agricultural architecture of the wineyards.

Monumento al Campesino and its museum, right in the geographical centre of the island, the monument is a 10 m. high modern abstract sculpture by César Manrique in honour to the farmworker, with a restaurant serving typical Canarian food and a museum on local agriculture, Salt plants at Janubio, traditional salt plants still producing salt in almost the same way the Romans did - a very nice and colourful view Teguise, the former capital of the island, when defence rather than commerce was the main priority.

Puerto del Carmen, long beach divided by rocky bits. Papagayo, nice small white beaches, but with no facilities. Janubio/El Golfo, black beaches, but dangerous to swim. Famara, long beach and a lot of waves. Costa Teguise, several separate beaches and many tourists. El Reducto, white and clean beach in the centre of Arrecife.

Typical food are: Sancocho Canario (boiled salted fish with potatoes, sweet potatoes) - served with mojo picón (red hot sauce) and mojo verde (green garlic sauce), papas arrugadas (crimped potatoes) with mojo picón and mojo verde, young goat cheese, gofio (roasted maize meal), rabbit, goat meat and lamb, fresh fish.

Lanzarote is one of the seven Canary Islands, situated at a distance of some 1,000 km. From the Iberian Peninsula and a 150 km. from the coast of Africa. The Canary Archipelago belongs to Spain.

Located in the temperature zones of the Cancer Tropic and protected by the influential climatic effects, resulting from a clash between the high Saharan temperatures and the current from the Gulf of Mexico, the island enjoys an average temperature of 22°C all year round.

Some 900 square km. (including the small islands of la Alegranza, la Graciosa, Montaña Clara, Roque del Este and Roque del Oeste), with a north-south distance of 60 km. and an east-west distance of 20 km., take in the island's seven municipalities (Arrecife, Haría, San Bartolomé, Teguise, Tías, Tinajo and Yaiza) which overall have an official population of nearly 150,000 inhabitants.