ARTENARA

Most visitors become aware of this tiny, fertile village, set in the beautiful Barranco de Fataga, only when they come here on camel safari. The camel ride skirts the village and bypasses one of the most interesting pre-Hispanic sites on the island: an ancient necropolis, containing hundreds of graves. Early Canarios used stone coffins, as well as caves, to bury their dead. Here, the stones lie in rubble spread over 2sq km of hillside at the southern end of the village.