Open plains, pastoral memory and an intense relationship with wind and sea.
Fuerteventura is the great island of horizontality: broad plains, gentle volcanoes and a very long coastline where the sea has been resource, frontier and route. Its history is closely linked to herding, internal mobility and its strategic position within the eastern islands.
Wide horizons, worn volcanoes and endless beaches on an island shaped by the trade winds.
History and territory
The island was a decisive enclave in the seigneurial conquest begun in the early fifteenth century. Betancuria, located inland to protect itself from coastal attacks, became an early political centre and shows how settlement patterns responded to territorial conditions and Atlantic risks.
Cultural landscape
Today Fuerteventura preserves a strong rural identity even amid tourism expansion. Windmills, cheese dairies, chapels and semi-desert landscapes explain a culture marked by water scarcity, adaptation to the wind and a long tradition of exchange between the interior and the coast.