Villages

Ajuy
The small fishing village captivates by its original charm and by its catering trade. It is advisable to stop here and to enjoy fresh fish in a pictorial environment. After a opulent meal it is worth to take a walk along the cliffs to the caves of Ajuy. The rough surf, the cliffy rock coast and the waves of the Atlantic form the atmosphere of Ajuy, which will pull you into their spell.

Antigua
This beautiful and very charming town is set among palm and prickly pear trees, with cobbled streets and large houses with the traditional whitewashed walls. The area was first established as an agricultural and craft centre in 1485. On the outskirts of the town you can find the "Centro de Artesania Molino de Antigua, which is set around a restored original windmill, the biggest on the island. The centre is set in very pleasant gardens with cacti and palm trees, and the building itself is an example of traditional architecture combining stone and wood. The small church in the town centre is worth a visit as it was erected in the honour of the Virgen de Antigua at the end of the 15th century.

Betancuria
This beautiful town, located in the centre of the island, was once the capital of Fuerteventura. Long before the days of shipping made a coastal location a necessity, frequent raids by marauding pirates and other unwelcome visitors meant that it was necessary to take refuge inland. Very famous for the island is the church of Santa Maria which is at the heart of the village. It is actually the oldest church in the Canary Islands, having been built in 1424. The village also has a museum, a nice selection of gift shops and a truly delightful bodega that has a traditional restaurant and the most wonderful display of flowers.

Cofete
Cofete, the only inhabited place on the north side of the peninsula Jandía and consists of few simple houses as well as a bar. It is at the foot of a mountain massif, which culminates to 807 m in the high "el pico de la Zarza". For about 2 km outside of the place stands the villa winter, a country house with a round, militarily seeming tower, built in the Spanish style. Its name is owed to the German engineer Gustav Winter, which leased the entire peninsula in the year 1937 and established the building, although he never lived there. Until today holds the (unproven) rumour that winter had put on here a submarine base for the German navy. Visitors come particularly because of the most beautiful beaches of Fuerteventura. The Playa de Cofete and the Playa de Barlovento are together scarcely 10 km long and only separated by the rock cliff El Islote. The beautiful landscape likes to be made for expanded beach walks.

Coralejo
Corralejo lies in the extreme north of the island, in the midst of a uniquely beautiful dune landscape (since 1982 protected area), and is after the peninsula Jandía the second largest holidays area of Fuerteventura. The place is coined by restaurants, souvenir- and fashion shops, which particularly are concentrated on the Plaza Felix Estévez in the local centre and is the driving connecting port to Lanzarote. The Avenida Marítima offers opportunity to an expanded walk along the coast. The city is particularly adjusted to a recent, active public, which comes here for diving, surfing, high sea-fishing and motor boating or mountain biking. For all these kinds of sport there are excellent possibilities. With surfers and divers the water district El Río, the strait between Corralejo and the small neighbour island Lobos, is particularly popular. Up to 5 m high waves, owes this surf resort the name as the "Hawaii of Europe". Likewise there is a particularly delightful diving district here.

Costa Calma
„The calm coast" is at the beginning of the peninsula Jandia, in a, particularly with German guests, popular holidays area. The kilometre-long, bright sandy beach „Playa de Sotavento" has its beginning in Costa Calma. This particularly beautiful part of that altogether 340 km long coast drops flat into the sea. It extends southwards approximately 25 km up to the fishers place Morro Jable. Many restaurants, bars and shopping centres provide for alternation in direct environment.

El Cotillo
In the extreme northwest far away, scarcely 20 km off Corralejo, the fishing village El Cotillo is hardly affected by tourism. So far only individual tourists discovered this calm and overslept place at the rough west coast of Fuerteventura. Most important object of interest is the Castillo de Tostón Rico Roque, a two-story, round fortress tower, which was build in the year 1743 for the protection against pirate robberies. At this time the place was called Puerto del Tostón and was admitting and served as important military base and commercial port for the lime export. Three restored limekilns, convenient between the village and fortress tower, is still witnessing the former importance of El Cotillo. Once one diminished lime at the nearby, chalk-temporal sediment banks, burned him directly at the port and shipped him particularly to Gran Canary and Lanzarote. As in the 19th century Puerto de Cabras, today's Puerto del Rosario, became the main port of the island, most inhabitants left; only a few fisherman remained. In the meantime there are smaller holiday resorts and some good fish restaurants. From a terrace at the old port you can have a good view on the fishing boats, which manoeuvre skilfully around numerous reefs in the harbour basin.

Jandia Playa
Jandía Playa forms together with Morro Jable a kind of double place, at the southernmost point of Fuerteventura. East of the small old port town Morro Jable extends Jandía Playa, a holidays settlement of hotel and apartment complexes. Over the main street, the Avenida del Saladar, you can stroll along numerous restaurants, bars and shops. The Playa del Matorral is on the opposite roadside, behind a salt meadow zone standing under nature protection. These salt marshes offer rare plants a habitat with their sandy, clayey soil and numerous pools. Contrary to the Avenida de Saladar the pretty beach promenade prevails very little turbulence - from here you can walk to Morro Jable with its excellent fish restaurants. The one, who has enough from sun bathing on the white sandy beach, can spend time with walking or mountain biking in the preventing country or can use one of the many water sport offers.

La Puertita
The tiny fishing village Puertito de la Cruz is at the most extreme western end of Fuerteventura, not far from the "Punta de Jandía" with its lighthouse. El Puertito is worth a trip, because with clear view you can look from the cliffs even to Gran Canaria. It becomes lively in this overslept village only on the weekends and in the summer months; otherwise most of the white cleaned houses stand empty. A modern wind generator shapes the landscape. Puertito de la Cruz lies at a coarse gravel beach; due to the currents bathing is however extremely dangerously.

Morro Jable
At the east coast of the peninsula Jandía is located Morro Jable, which meanwhile grew together with Jandía Playa to the largest holiday centre of Fuerteventura. East of the local centre of the former fishing village, at the old port, an artificial sand beach was up-poured more broadly, behind which numerous fish restaurants line up together. On the two shopping streets, which lead from the old port land inward, you will find a multicoloured mixture from natives and visitors to meet. Altogether the local picture is coined by a successful accumulation of restored fishing cottages and pensions, pretty business and small apartment plants. To the west follows the new port, where holiday-makers can book a sailing trip or a passage to the neighbour island Gran Canary. In the afternoon walkers can observe, how the Fisherman unloads their catch, which will be gilled in the modern cooling hall immediately and prepared for the transport.

Pajara
The wealthy town Pajara is appropriate like an oasis in a valley between 600 meters high mountains; the largest is the "Fenduca" with 609 meters. In the centre is located the 1733 finished church Nuestra Señora de la Regla. The sculpture of the patron saint Virgin de la Regla is admired in Cuba as patron saint of the cities Havana and Regla, a provincial town of the same name. To the left of the church is the Cultural centre of Pájara with the municipal library. Opposite presents itself the city hall (Ayuntamiento) in modern appearance. The Plaza decorates a donkey-claimant water drawing wheel (noria) from the 19th Century. Such Norias served decades ago for watering the fields. Today however the agriculture lost strongly in meaning, the former irrigation systems purge. Today even a local fresh water swimming pool exists, genuine luxury in this dry region.
In the local centre you can find the Casa del Artesano, where you can survey local canarian handicraft art.