Casa de los Balcones or Casa Fonseca is a house of La Orotava, on the island of Tenerife in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands, characterized by its balconies and interior carved wood patio. It was built in the year 1715 (there are some publications that mark the year 1632) and stands out, above all, for the carved tea balcony it has on its upper floor.

Precisely the balcony of the upper floor (it has three floors) is made of Canarian pine tea wood and is shown as a carved and run set, of great beauty.

On the second floor, on its facade, you can see five other individual balconies, these of iron, while on the first floor, two large windows on each side flank the access door, studded.

Inside it stands out its inner courtyard in two heights, which is surrounded by wooden columns topped in Corinthian capitals that support a very rich wooden balustrade and happily colored by its lush vegetation. Interestingly, to access the upper floor you have to do it through a spiral staircase made in Canarian pine tea, so traditional in local colonial architecture. The superior rooms are those that house the museum of the House of the Balconies.

The House of Balconies also has a center for teaching, promotion and dissemination of typical handicrafts so that they are not lost. It has its own store where these typical Canarian products are sold.

You can also visit the House of Eladia Machado, former workshop of jigsaw founded in 1932. The building stands out for its plateresque doorway with side columns, and its narrow upper balcony.

The Casa de Colón is an institution that was created in 1950, the goal of the institution is to investigate and disseminate the history of Canary Islands in your relationships with America. The institution is located in a historic building in the neighborhood of Vegueta in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is created from several houses, currently occupies several mazanas. This location was chosen because it was the former Casa del Gobernador and according to some experts was visited by Christopher Columbus in the stop he made on his first trip in 1482 when you discovered America.

The Casa de Colón has become an important cultural reference on the island, within which there are several rooms that serve as sections and where it is possible to know the funds and services of the institution.

• America before its discovery by Christopher Columbus: information about the American population and its culture and is divided into two sections. One of them is Cultura Esmeraldeña and in second place Culturas Mexicanas.
• Cristóbal Colón y sus Viajes.
• The history of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias.
• Paintings from the 16th to the 19th century.

Near the Casa de Colón is the house where Alfredo Kraus was born, with a façade with Gothic decoration flamboyant

Located in one of the most prominent buildings of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the Museum of Nature and Archeology (MUNA) formerly known as Museum of Nature and Man, in what used to be the old Civil Hospital of Our Lady of the Forsaken, which dates from 1745 and that a major remodeling in the 19th century left it with the current appearance .

The facade of the Museum stands out because it is a clear example of the neoclassical architecture of the Canarian archipelago, this made the building declared Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Monument in 1983.

The importance of the museum is vital, in its facilities you can get to know deeply the natural wealth that all the islands of the Canarian archipelago harbor. You can also find a lot of information and a collection about Guanche culture, which was the aboriginal people that inhabited the island of Tenerife before the European conquerors arrived there.

Of what is exhibited in the museum, perhaps the most interesting part is that dedicated to archeology and the Aboriginal Funeral World, as well as a large number of non-mummified Guanche skulls, located in a large showcase. Also worth mentioning are the Guanche pottery vessels and Roman amphoras along with other archaeological artifacts such as the Piedra Zanata.

Located in the northern part of the island of Fuerteventura, in Villaverde, a town belonging to La Oliva is the Cueva del Llano. It is estimated that this natural space is more than one million years old, being one of the oldest volcanic tubes of the Canarian archipelago.

According to experts La Cueva del Llano was formed after the eruption of the Mountain Escanfraga. The cave is a lava tube that has an approximate length of 650 meters, of which you can walk about 400 meters since the remaining 200 are covered with sediments.

The Cueva del Llano has had many uses throughout its history, has served as a powder keg, warehouse or to save livestock. After many years of neglect and after its ecosystem was threatened, a series of improvements were made to adapt the cave to tourist visits, a visitor center was also created to receive information about their training.

Inside the Cueva del Llano there is a peculiar caveman fauna, inhabited by arthropods, such as the silverfish or a type of arachnid called opilion. A place of obligatory visit.

The Museum of History and Anthropology known by its acronym MHA, is located in the Casa Lercaro in the city of San Cristóbal de la Laguna, municipality declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1999.

The building dates back to the end of the 16th century, when a family of merchants who came to the island from Genoa after the conquest began construction, this family were the Lercaro.

The Museum of History and Anthropology was inaugurated in 1993, the objective of the opening of this museum is to spread the historical evolution of the island of Tenerife. The museum offers a vision of the development that the island has had in the institutional, social, economic and cultural between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries.

In the museum numerous activities are carried out, research, conservation, dissemination of funds and collections of the history of the island are carried out. The programming of activities that takes place in the MHA is very broad, they are both cultural and didactic activities.

The Museum has a vocation to be a point for historical memory and reflection on contemporary culture, to study the past and lay the foundations for both the present and the future of the Island.

The most curious of the Museum of Science and the Cosmos that are in San Cristóbal de La Laguna is that it is not a traditional museum. It is one of those museums whose objective is not simply to see scientific experiments or what techniques are used, what this type of museums want is to disseminate science in a fun, entertaining and interactive way. Using the means available in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos and with the collaboration of visitors, the visit will be an unforgettable experience for young and old.

The Museum of Science and the Cosmos was created in 1993, belongs to the Autonomous Organization of Museums and Centers of the Cabildo of Tenerife, was promoted by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias with the acronym IAC.

This museum is considered the most important museum of science and astronomy in the Canary archipelago and one of the most important in Spain. Among the elements to be highlighted within the facilities, we should mention the Planetarium or the Interstellar Trip that can be seen through holograms.

Those who visit the museum will be able to experience all the available experiences first hand, it is possible to know the principles of nature, the functioning of the human body or the stars.

In Moya you will find the natural site Los Tilos de Moya, one of the most interesting places of laurisilva that can be found in the whole Canary archipelago, there is also a great amount of hiking routes that can be covered and that leads to the most beautiful corners of this nature reserve.

Within the same natural area of Los Tilos de Moya there is an interpretation center where it is possible to know in depth the importance of this place thanks to the large amount of flora and fauna endemic, some of them like the Cresta de Gallo that are seriously threatened.

The Interpretation Center has 2 exhibition rooms in which, in a didactic way, you can find out all the details of the Los Tilos training. There are also panels in which history and natural values are collected in addition to the traditional uses of this forest.

One of the unmistakable symbols of Lanzarote is the artist César Manrique and with the aim of preserving and spreading the work, the César Manrique Foundation was founded., a private institution located in the Taro de Tahiche that belongs to the municipality of Teguise. The Foundation's main areas are the protection of the natural environment, promoting the plastic arts and inviting cultural reflection.

The center of the César Manrique Foundation was inaugurated in 1992, it is the old house of Manrique that has been converted into a museum. In the facilities you can find two collections, the first of which is contemporary art with works by artists of the same generation and the second of the collections is representative of the best of the artist.

The most impressive thing about the building, which was the home-studio of Manrique, is that it is located on a lava tail of the eruption that took place between 1730-36, taking advantage of the formation of volcanic bubbles to configure a surprising habitable place. The exterior of the museum is inspired by the traditional architecture of the island of Lanzarote.

The César Manrique Foundation receives around 300,000 visitors a year, which makes it one of the reference places in Teguise.