Corralejo Dunes
Two thousand six hundred hectares of white sand, born of crushed shells and not of the desert, which the wind reshapes every day all the way down to the turquoise sea.
28°24′N · 14°00′W
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Golden sand and wild freedom.
Fuerteventura is the oldest of the Canary Islands, the first to rise from the ocean more than twenty million years ago, and wind and time have worn it smooth into ochre plains and softly rounded hills. It is the island of beaches, more than a hundred and fifty of them, from the white dunes of Corralejo to the twelve deserted kilometres of Cofete, with a sea whose blue changes from one bay to the next.
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- Biosphere Reserve
- Over 150 beaches
- Majorero cheese
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Not to be missed
Isla de Lobos
An uninhabited islet named after the monk seals that once lived there: the turquoise pools of El Puertito among the black lava and, in the distance, the Martiño lighthouse.
Cofete
Twelve kilometres of wild beach beneath the Jandía mountains, and an isolated villa steeped in legend.
Sotavento
When the tide goes out, the sea shapes a sheet of clear, very shallow water, creating a new and spectacular choreography of sand every day.
Landscapes and nature
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Morro Jable
Kilometres of pale sand and a calm sea in the far south, where an old fishing village guards its lighthouse.
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Cuevas de Ajuy
Caves open to the sea in the oldest rocks of the Canary Islands, where marine fossils surface alongside the old lime kilns.
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Mirador Morro Velosa
An elegant building with a wooden portico, conceived by Manrique at six hundred and seventy metres above sea level, overlooking the ochre desert and the rolling hills of Fuerteventura.
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El Cotillo
A fishing village on the north-west coast, famous for its white-sand lagoons sheltered by black reefs and for its fiery sunsets.
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Calderón Hondo
A volcanic cone that can be climbed, revealing a deep reddish crater, where paths of black sand and lava rock are home to nimble squirrels.
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Faro de la Entallada
A fortress of red and white stone perched on a two-hundred-metre cliff, at the point of the Canary Islands closest to the African coast.
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Arco de las Peñitas
A rock arch carved by water above a barranco of palm trees, a few steps from the small ermita of the Virgen de la Peña.
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Mirador Astronómico de Sicasumbre
A stone astronomical balcony with information panels and telescope stands, ideal for admiring the island’s protected starry skies.
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Art, history and culture
- Historic centre Betancuria Founded in 1404, it was the first capital of the Canary Islands: white houses tucked away at the bottom of a valley, safe from pirates, around the church of Santa María.
- Archaeology Montaña de Tindaya The sacred mountain of the majos, the island’s ancient inhabitants: hundreds of foot-shaped carvings remain on its rocks, facing the horizon.
- Church Nuestra Señora de Regla The church of Pájara and its doorway carved with serpents, felines and suns reminiscent of Aztec art.
- Architecture Casa de los Coroneles In La Oliva, the eighteenth-century mansion from which the colonels ruled the island for generations, with its crenellated turrets and wooden balconies.
- Museum Ecomuseo La Alcogida A village of restored farmhouses in Tefía, where the gestures of times past live on: the oven, the loom, the millstone.
Unwinding together
Clubs by the sea
- Punta Elena Beach Club Grandes Playas · Corralejo An oceanfront venue in Corralejo with a pool, ideal for sipping a cocktail while watching the surfers and the outline of Isla de Lobos.
- El Caracol Beach Club Grandes Playas · Corralejo A beach bar set within the natural park, where the white of the sand meets the blue of the sea, for a relaxed, barefoot lunch.
Spas and thermal baths
- Secrets Spa Corralejo · Secrets Bahía Real Resort & Spa A vast wellness oasis of 2,500 square metres in Corralejo, where the glass walls of the heated pool open onto the islands of Lobos and Lanzarote.
The island, month by month
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February, March
Carnaval
Puerto del Rosario and Corralejo fill with masks, costumed troupes and music in the streets.
July
San Buenaventura
Betancuria, the first capital, honours its patron saint with a procession among the white houses of the valley.
Summer
Windsurf and Kite World Cup
Every summer the turquoise waters become the world stage of the wind, where the elite of windsurfing, kitesurfing and wingfoiling battle it out with acrobatics and speed.
September
Virgen de la Peña
The whole island sets out for Vega de Río Palmas, where the patron saint waits in her church, among the palms of the valley.
October
Juradas de San Miguel
Tuineje re-enacts the battle of 1740, when the farmers drove back the English corsairs, using their camels as shields.
November
International Kite Festival
In autumn the sky above the Corralejo dunes lights up with giant kites and floating figures, carried by the strong air currents over the protected sandy coastline.
Every week
- Saturday
- The Lajares craft market
- Every week
- The Corralejo markets
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Special mentions
- Museo del Queso Majorero Antigua Inside the old mill of Antigua, the story of PDO Majorero, the first goat’s cheese in Spain to receive a designation of origin, and guided tastings.
What fascinates me about Fuerteventura is its wild side, the one no one has ever managed to tame. The endless stretches of white sand that slip into a sea of a thousand shades of turquoise, and a landscape where the wind always has something to say, and where we can lose ourselves among the beaches, with the trade winds as our only witnesses.
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