The César Manrique Foundation is located in the studio-home that the artist lived in, situated in Taro de Tahiche (Lanzarote).

It is probably the work that best represents Manrique's artistic and personal ideals.

Built in 1968 on top of a volcanic trail from a volcanic eruption that occurred in 1730-36. It uses, in the lower level, the natural formation of five volcanic bubbles to make an unusual and exemplary living space within a natural space. The outside of the house and upper level is an inspiration from the traditional architecture of Lanzarote.

The César Manrique Foundation, created in 1992, is a non profit   private institution. It's ambit international. It actually receives more than 300.000 visitors a year.

It is constituted as a cultural platform in accordance with the starting point of the attention that it brings to three lines of development: the arts, the natural environment, and the cultural reflection. The        programs and the different developed initiatives are included in that area of encounter, bordered with transversal vocation and critical and alternate spirit.

El Mirador del Rio is built into a place where previously a battery of canons was installed for use in the war between Spain and the U.S.A. over Cuba in the C19. It was built in 1973, at a height of 479 metres above sea level. It is not simply an excavation in the cliff, but rather a building with two enormous buried domes, so as to hide the construction.

It was conceived by the artist, Cesar Manrique, with the collaboration of Jesus Soto and the architect, Eduardo Caceres. From this beautiful place, one can contemplate the beach at Risco, which can be reached by boat or on foot following the cliff path - one should not forget that returning to the cliff top is a steep climb and one must go prepared to spend the day.

From the Mirador one can also see Las Salinas del Río; the oldest salt plains of the archipelago, which have been used since Roman times. Lastly, and to satisfy the most curious, the name of Rio, or river, comes from the thin stretch of sea of approximately two kilometres which separates La Graciosa and Lanzarote.

Jameos del agua—Manrique certainly made use of his native volcanic landscape in Lanzarote - no more so than at the Jameos del Agua volcanic galleries and caverns to the north east of Arrieta. A popular visitor attraction, Jameos Del Agua has been constructed within a series of volcanic tubes created when lava solidified. Here at Jameos the roofs of some of the volcanic tubes have caved in, and Manrique incorporates this into the design, with open air space combined with an cave lagoon which is covered - Jameos is indeed a calming and soothing place