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.
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.
Among its main reference points are Historic Betancuria, Pastoral tradition, Open coasts, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. Heritage combines material remains, cultural landscapes and living practices, so it must be read together with history, territory and social life.
Key points
Catedral de Betancuria
La Iglesia de Santa Maria de Betancuria, del siglo XVII, es la mas antigua de Canarias fuera de Gran Canaria, referencia del patrimonio colonial en el interior majorero.
Molinos de viento de La Oliva
Los molinos de viento de La Oliva y otros municipios del norte son simbolos del paisaje agricola majorero y del aprovechamiento del viento para moler el grano de cebada.
Tindaya y los grabados podomortos
Los grabados de pies en la montaña de Tindaya son uno de los conjuntos de arte rupestre aborigen mas singulares de Canarias y de interpretacion cultural todavia debatida.
Casas señoriales de La Oliva
El municipio de La Oliva conserva casas blasonadas del siglo XVIII, reflejo del poder del cuerpo de oficiales militares que controlaron la vida insular durante ese periodo.
Municipalities of Fuerteventura
See all →- AntiguaAntigua is a municipality of Fuerteventura, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- BetancuriaBetancuria is a municipality of Fuerteventura, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- La OlivaLa Oliva is a municipality of Fuerteventura, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- PájaraPájara is a municipality of Fuerteventura, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- Puerto del RosarioPuerto del Rosario is a municipality of Fuerteventura, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- TuinejeTuineje is a municipality of Fuerteventura, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.