Timanfaya National Park or Parque Nacional de Timanfaya is a Spanish national park covering the municipalities of southern portion of Tinajo and the northern portion of Yaiza in the southwestern part of the island of Lanzarote. The greatest recorded eruptions occurred between 1730 and 1736. Read more
On 1st September 1730, between 9 and 10 o'clock at night, the ground opened in Timanfaya, two leagues from Yaiza... and an enormous mountain rose from the heart of the ground Read more