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1700s: Lanzarote in the early 1700s was a repressive religious environment
Lanzarote
What you need to know before your trail
Milagro is the talk of the island. She’s young and beautiful and every man wants to go out with her. But the one who catcher her is ironically a fisherman who then callously “throws her back into the sea” But she is left pregnant and so she is then forced to flee her oppressive home.
She sets up a new home in exile but then this life, too, is torn apart. Volcanic eruptions ravage Lanzarote, destroying families, livestock, homes and the land itself. She will do anything to protect her child but the island and everyone on it is in danger.
Travel Guide
September 1st, 1730, a day like so many other days in Lanzarote, dry, windy rainless.
But then things change and the corn starts to stir. The ground seems to be in motion like some living things were trying to escape. “Some wild beast imprisoned underground”
What follows is a dramatic event and changes the life of everyone on the island. The islanders think that God is punishing them
History lesson included..
The first Spanish came to Lanzarote more than 300 years ago lead by a man which was not in fact Spanish but Norman, Juan de Bethencourt.
The island was not called Lazarote then but Tytheroygatraand it was ruled by a king Guadarfia.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Lanzarote
Author/Guide: J H Wallace Destination: Lanzarote Departure Time: 1700s
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