Fuerteventura, magic island
Fuerteventura, with its 1,658 of km2, is the second greater island of most level the canary archipelago and of orography of all of them. To only 97 km of the coast of Africa, she is the one that has the most barren climate. This island to the province of the Palms of Great Canary belongs, that next to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, form the Independent Community of the Canary Islands. It has his capital located in the city of Puerto name of the Rosary. Fuerteventura is a destiny, mainly, for which they wish to rest. This golden beach oasis is a paradise for which they look for to forget the haste and the work. You will be able to practice senderismo by volcanic landscapes, to dive in wonderful marine bottoms or to attend the Championship of the annual World of Windsurf, or if you prefer it, to practice this sport by your account.
Within this island we will find in addition, interesting places to visit so much for interested in the culture like the lovers of the crafts or the ecology. Is Fuerteventura divided in six municipalities: Municipality of Old: Central municipality in that we will be able to enjoy the traditional architecture of the place being visited its small villages, of the visit to the mills to knead gofio and of the different churches and located hermitages asllí. Also we will be able to visit the Castle that was constructed in century XVIII to defend the island and that it is in Creek of Fuste. Municipality of Betancuria: Founded on 1.404 by Juan de Bethencour, it counts on a church gothic-normando style that, in spite of the later reconstructions, still conserves rest of his first times. It is either necessary to forget to visit neither his hermitages here, nor the Conventual church, nor the Museum of Sacred Art nor the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, of great historical value. Municipality of the Olive: Located in the north of the island, it includes like hers the Island of Wolves, only 5 km2. In this municipality we will be able to enjoy the Mountain of Tindaya, natural space that comprises of myths and majoreras legend and that keeps important archaeological and geologic rest. We will be able to also admire here other wonderful places like the Natural Park of Corralejo, and its interminable dunes, or the Park of Wolves, natural place where 130 different species between flora and fauna live.
Municipality of Pájara: It emphasizes in all Canary Islands to have the greater beach extension. Mainly tourist center, also counts on interesting sites to visit, like the Church of Our Lady of Rule, dated in the centuries between XVII and XVIII, and the hermitage in honor to San Antonio, of Century XVIII. Municipality of Port of the Rosary: It includes the capital of the island and offers to his visitors crossed cultural by his different churches and hermitages, emphasizing among them the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary; by the Room of Art Juan Ismael, where exhibitions of art are carried out interesting; or by the House Museum of Miguel de Unamuno, among other places of interest. Municipality of Tuineje: Located to the south of the island, it enjoys a warm climate practically all the year. It is an important tourist center thanks to his beaches. They emphasize among them beaches of Great Tarajal and Tarajalejo, with its fine black sand, only in the island. And speaking now of gastronomy, we do not have to go to us without proving its Popes wrinkled with gravy picón, typical of the Canary Islands, its ample variety of fresh fish, the exquisite majorero cheese, or the revitalizante gofio escaldado. Between plates of fish we can find the jareas or sabrosísimo sancocho of fish, that uses with gravy, Popes, sweet potatoes and gofio. And if it prefers the meat, it does not let prove the meat of baifo or roasted goat or estofada, composed as the canaries say. And you do not lose our recommendations if you are looking for hotel in Fuerteventura.
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