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Presentation of the island of El Hierro Herreño by the Association of Rural Tourism Meridiano Cero The island of El Hierro is the westernmost tip of the Canary Islands in the southwest of it. It has an area of 278 km ², encompassing a wide variety of landscapes, from arid lajiares and volcanic formations of the South and West, to the spectacular valley of El Golfo with extensive vineyards and irrigated agriculture, through fertile farmland the centre and north of the island, and meadows of the central plateau and the landscape of fruit trees adapted to the peoples of central and south of the island. Its coasts are steep and inaccessible with steep cliffs, with beautiful beaches including swimming pools and natural water with its clear and transparent invite visitors to immerse themselves in them. The island of El Hierro, has been declared in full "Biosphere Reserve", which shows the extraordinary degree of conservation is that, with barely half natural altered, making it an ideal place to enjoy holidays amid the peace and quiet and contact with nature. The volcanic origin of the island gives it a spectacular and totally full of contrasts, in a few minutes you can move from a volcanic landscape, devoid of vegetation in the south to a pine forest or a hundred-dense laurel forest, or extensive grasslands on the plateau of Nisdafe where grazing cows, sheep and goats almost all year. For nature lovers, the island is an ideal place to enjoy the walking paths through real link all peoples and places, which moved the Herreño until recently, although some of them are still used, all the animals to move from one place to another. Also the spectacular viewpoints that are at different places of the island, allow visitors to see sights that you can hardly find elsewhere. Ultimately the island of El Hierro is a place that is being increasingly visited by more people in order to find an idyllic place, and an island that is still undiscovered by many people, and therefore invites you to visit and keep it. The Reservation Centre of Rural Tourism in El Hierro, Meridiano Zero, has cottages for rent in all towns of the island, with high quality and performance, which has sought to maintain and restore traditional architecture Herreño and adapt to the demands of modernity that require visitors today. Often surrounded by farmland and orchards with beautiful views towards the sea or the mountains, where often the only alarm clock you hear is the doctrine of the birds. Take a boat or a plane and come visit. Travel on your own and discover islands that never forget...

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