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About Fuerteventura

Fuerteventura
Over 70 kilometers of pristine white beaches; an unbeatable climate; friendly people and sugar cube villages. These are some of the reasons why the Canaries' second largest island is becoming a Mecca for those seeking a picture postcard lifestyle.

With virtually the same climate as Florida and Mexico, Fuerteventura is like an all over tonic where you can't help but feel the stresses and strains of a North European winter disappearing over the horizon with the setting sun. For clouds and rain imagine a seamless stretch of sapphire blue with 360 days of sunshine per year; for the fumes of traffic torment think clean ocean breeze from a coastline never far away; for industrial hi-rise cities picture sugar cube villages and tiny fishing hamlets.

It's not hard to understand why the local Majoreros (inhabitants of Fuerteventura) are welcoming so many second home-owners and new residents. We at Horizon have had many enquiries about this new area in the Canary Islands and will soon be opening offices in Corralejo and Antigua from where we’ll be able to offer you some of the very best property on the island.

Some of the most popular areas for visitors are the capital - Puerto del Rosario, Corralejo in the north, Caleta de Fuste on the east coast and Morro Jable at the Fuerteventura’s southernmost point:

Puerto de Rosario
With a population of just over 20,000 Puerto del Rosario is the hub of Fuerteventura's commerce and fishing trade and a buzzing little harbor town. It used to be called Puerto de Cabras – Port of the Goats – because it was the closest watering point for local herders but changed it’s name in 1957 to the present ‘Port of the Rosary’, a name more fitting for an island’s capital.

When Spain pulled out of the Sahara in 1975, around 5,000 Foreign Legion troops were sent to the island to keep an eye on North Africa, a mere 100 kilometres or so away. Nowadays only a relative handful of soldiers remain in the huge barracks in Puerto del Rosario.

Corralejo
Centred around a traditional fishing harbor, the town has expanded in line with its popularity providing full amenities for visitors and residents alike. Excellent fish restaurants and quay side tapas bars satisfy the hunger whilst the fine white sand and clear turquoise waters of Corralejo Nature Park provide dreamlike beaches.
The islet of Los Lobos just a few kilometres off the coast offers a perfect picnic location in protected surroundings.

Caleta de Fuste
Caleta de Fuste in the municipality of Antigua is the fastest developing resort on the island and a safe water sports haven. Diving, snorkeling, windsurfing are popular in this protected bay and dolphins and pilot whales are common sights a little further out to sea.
The island's first golf course is situated just south of the village, an 18-hole, par 70 studded with palm trees and surrounding three stream-linked lakes.

Morro Jable
The sophistication of Fuerteventura's original resort is apparent in the array of international restaurants and shops along its promenade. Visitors of all nationalities come to Morro Jable year after year to enjoy the quaint harbor, old village and stunning 35-kilometre stretch of sand including the famous Sotavento, home of the World Windsurfing Championships.