The Cactus Garden is located in the northern town of Guatiza, in the municipality of Teguise, in whose agricultural landscape the cultivation of prickly pears (nopales) predominates.

The Cactus Garden was inaugurated in 1990 and was built on a rofera, abandoned since the last century, occupying an area of more than 5,000 m2 . That deteriorated space was rehabilitated, being converted into a garden with more than 1,400 plants, mostly cacti, of a thousand different species, from all over the planet, collected by the  botanical expert Estanislao González Ferrer

It is a creation of César Manrique and the last realization of the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers. The garden resembles a Roman amphitheatre. Built in stone, it is arranged in terraces, giving the whole a great solidity.

The most characteristic elements of the Cactus Garden are:

• The mill of wind, faithfully restored, inside which roasted grain is ground to obtain gofio.
• A large sculpture designed by Manrique himself that represents a cactus.
• The entrance porch made of carved stone and the surprising access to the interior, behind which the exuberant panoramic view of the Garden is suddenly discovered.

The visit to the Cactus Garden can be done freely following different itineraries, through which we can appreciate the beauty of the plant species, of various shapes and sizes that reach their maximum splendor with the flowering of the cacti. A spectacle of nature difficult to describe.

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