Museums in Fuerteventura

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Museo del Queso Majorero

Museum dedicated to Majorero cheese in Antigua, Fuerteventura.

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Museo del Queso Majorero

Museum dedicated to Majorero cheese in Antigua, Fuerteventura.

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Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno

The Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno occupies the house that took in the writer when he reached Fuerteventura in 1924, banished by the Rivera dictatorship. It stands in the centre of the old Puerto Cabras, today Puerto del Rosario, and keeps the feel of a bourgeois home of the last century, with fine wood, heavy drapes and period devices such as a typewriter and a phonograph.

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Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno

The Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno occupies the house that took in the writer when he reached Fuerteventura in 1924, banished by the Rivera dictatorship. It stands in the centre of the old Puerto Cabras, today Puerto del Rosario, and keeps the feel of a bourgeois home of the last century, with fine wood, heavy drapes and period devices such as a typewriter and a phonograph.

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Centro de Arte Juan Ismael

The Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, also known by its initials CAJI, is a space devoted to contemporary creation in Puerto del Rosario. It stands in the El Charco district, on the site once occupied by the Cine Marga, whose historic façade has been preserved. It takes its name from Juan Ismael González, a Canarian painter born in Fuerteventura in 1907 and closely linked to the avant garde movements of his day.

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Centro de Arte Juan Ismael

The Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, also known by its initials CAJI, is a space devoted to contemporary creation in Puerto del Rosario. It stands in the El Charco district, on the site once occupied by the Cine Marga, whose historic façade has been preserved. It takes its name from Juan Ismael González, a Canarian painter born in Fuerteventura in 1907 and closely linked to the avant garde movements of his day.

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Museo Arqueológico de Fuerteventura

The Museo Arqueológico de Fuerteventura stands in the Villa Histórica de Betancuria, the first capital of the Canary Islands after the conquest and listed among the most beautiful villages in Spain. It is a modern space created with a vocation for promoting culture and research, and it works as the centre and hub of knowledge about the majorero aborigines, the mahos. The Cabildo de Fuerteventura runs it.

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Museo Arqueológico de Fuerteventura

The Museo Arqueológico de Fuerteventura stands in the Villa Histórica de Betancuria, the first capital of the Canary Islands after the conquest and listed among the most beautiful villages in Spain. It is a modern space created with a vocation for promoting culture and research, and it works as the centre and hub of knowledge about the majorero aborigines, the mahos. The Cabildo de Fuerteventura runs it.

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Casa de los Coroneles

17th-century crenellated palace in La Oliva, once home to the colonels who ruled Fuerteventura and now a cultural landmark of the island's north.

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Casa de los Coroneles

17th-century crenellated palace in La Oliva, once home to the colonels who ruled Fuerteventura and now a cultural landmark of the island's north.

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Centro de Interpretación de los Molinos

Traditional majorero house in Tiscamanita devoted to windmills and gofio milling, with a restored mill on site.

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Centro de Interpretación de los Molinos

Traditional majorero house in Tiscamanita devoted to windmills and gofio milling, with a restored mill on site.

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Casa Winter

A 1937 mansion in the remote Cofete valley, now a local history museum open mornings and afternoons.

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Casa Winter

A 1937 mansion in the remote Cofete valley, now a local history museum open mornings and afternoons.

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Castillo de San Buenaventura

An eighteenth-century defensive tower standing over the bay of Caleta de Fuste, in the municipality of Antigua, built to guard one of the three main harbours of Fuerteventura. It has a circular plan, two levels and walls of dark volcanic stone that were thickened to almost six metres after an attack. It has been listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural since 1949 and is now enclosed by a resort complex.

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Castillo de San Buenaventura

An eighteenth-century defensive tower standing over the bay of Caleta de Fuste, in the municipality of Antigua, built to guard one of the three main harbours of Fuerteventura. It has a circular plan, two levels and walls of dark volcanic stone that were thickened to almost six metres after an attack. It has been listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural since 1949 and is now enclosed by a resort complex.

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Ecomuseo de La Alcogida

Open-air ecomuseum with seven restored Majorero houses and traditional crafts.

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Ecomuseo de La Alcogida

Open-air ecomuseum with seven restored Majorero houses and traditional crafts.

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Iglesia de Santa María de Betancuria

15th-century mother church in Betancuria, with a sacred art museum and Gothic, Mudejar and Baroque architecture.

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Iglesia de Santa María de Betancuria

15th-century mother church in Betancuria, with a sacred art museum and Gothic, Mudejar and Baroque architecture.

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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria

A church in the centre of La Oliva begun in the late sixteenth century, with three naves, side chapels and a free standing bell tower of black volcanic stone seen from the edge of the village. Inside, the mudéjar timber work and the contrast between whitewashed walls and dark stone stand out. It is a stop on the Ruta de los Coroneles, with the Casa de los Coroneles, La Cilla and Casa Mané, all within walking distance. Its setting on Plaza de la Iglesia is quiet and open.

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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria

A church in the centre of La Oliva begun in the late sixteenth century, with three naves, side chapels and a free standing bell tower of black volcanic stone seen from the edge of the village. Inside, the mudéjar timber work and the contrast between whitewashed walls and dark stone stand out. It is a stop on the Ruta de los Coroneles, with the Casa de los Coroneles, La Cilla and Casa Mané, all within walking distance. Its setting on Plaza de la Iglesia is quiet and open.

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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Regla

A seventeenth-century church in the centre of Pájara, facing the town hall, famous for a carved stone portal covered in serpents, suns, birds and plumed heads. The imagery has long been linked to Aztec art, though the argument is far from settled. It is a listed monument and the set piece of inland Fuerteventura.

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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Regla

A seventeenth-century church in the centre of Pájara, facing the town hall, famous for a carved stone portal covered in serpents, suns, birds and plumed heads. The imagery has long been linked to Aztec art, though the argument is far from settled. It is a listed monument and the set piece of inland Fuerteventura.

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Castillo de El Tostón (Torre del Tostón)

A circular two storey defensive tower built around 1700 beside the harbour of El Cotillo, in La Oliva. It now works as a cultural venue, tourist office and coastal viewpoint.

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Castillo de El Tostón (Torre del Tostón)

A circular two storey defensive tower built around 1700 beside the harbour of El Cotillo, in La Oliva. It now works as a cultural venue, tourist office and coastal viewpoint.

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Parque escultórico Puerto del Rosario

The Parque escultórico Puerto del Rosario brings together more than a hundred sculptures in different styles and materials, spread across the streets, squares and roundabouts of the capital of Fuerteventura. The works come from the successive international sculpture symposia held since 2001, with artists from many countries, and they turn the urban fabric of the town into an open-air museum.

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Parque escultórico Puerto del Rosario

The Parque escultórico Puerto del Rosario brings together more than a hundred sculptures in different styles and materials, spread across the streets, squares and roundabouts of the capital of Fuerteventura. The works come from the successive international sculpture symposia held since 2001, with artists from many countries, and they turn the urban fabric of the town into an open-air museum.

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Faro del Tostón y Museo de la Pesca Tradicional

A 19th-century lighthouse on the northwestern tip of Fuerteventura, near El Cotillo, now home to a museum devoted to traditional Majorero fishing.

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Faro del Tostón y Museo de la Pesca Tradicional

A 19th-century lighthouse on the northwestern tip of Fuerteventura, near El Cotillo, now home to a museum devoted to traditional Majorero fishing.

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Museo de Las Salinas del Carmen (Museo de la Sal)

A salt museum set within the only active saltworks on Fuerteventura, by the sea in Antigua. It shows traditional salt-making and lets you be a salt maker for a day.

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Museo de Las Salinas del Carmen (Museo de la Sal)

A salt museum set within the only active saltworks on Fuerteventura, by the sea in Antigua. It shows traditional salt-making and lets you be a salt maker for a day.

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Centro de Interpretación Poblado de La Atalayita

Pre-Hispanic Majo settlement built in dry stone inside the Malpaís Grande, in the Pozo Negro valley in the municipality of Antigua. More than a hundred structures survive, among them the semi-subterranean casas hondas, with an interpretation centre at the edge of the site. This is an open-air archaeological site, not an inhabited village.

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Centro de Interpretación Poblado de La Atalayita

Pre-Hispanic Majo settlement built in dry stone inside the Malpaís Grande, in the Pozo Negro valley in the municipality of Antigua. More than a hundred structures survive, among them the semi-subterranean casas hondas, with an interpretation centre at the edge of the site. This is an open-air archaeological site, not an inhabited village.

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