El Cotillo Fuerteventura

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  • Work starts on new hotel in El Cotillo

    Work starts on new hotel in El Cotillo

    Work has now begun to build what is believed to be a new hotel in El Cotillo on the site in front of the Marfolin Apartments. The hotel will extend from the main road to the lagoons beaches, just past the Coral Cotillo Beach Hotel, down to the road that runs along the seafront. At…

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  • Ice Cream Figure Stolen from La Puntilla

    Ice Cream Figure Stolen from La Puntilla

    It is incredible but the Ice Cream figure that sits outside the La Puntilla home made ice cream shop has been stolen. What kind of low life would do a thing like that? Hopefully it will be found, or returned by whoever did it. It is hardly something that is easy to hide. If anyone…

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  • New Delicatessen – La Gastronomia

    New Delicatessen – La Gastronomia

    I know it has been there a little while but we only discovered La Gastronomia a few weeks. It is located near the main Superdino supermarket and is the other side of the road just down the side from the Chinese shop. It has been opened my Enrico and I have to say the food…

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  • Artisans Market Starts Again Friday 14th August

    Artisans Market Starts Again Friday 14th August

    After a long lay-off, for obvious reasons, the market in El Cotillo resumes from 19:00 – 22:00 on Friday 14th August. There will be 30 stalls with social distancing and other safeguards in place. Disinfectant solution dispensers will be supplied and in addition, the use of a mask will be mandatory whenever the meter and…

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  • El Cotillo as it was

    El Cotillo as it was

    I came across a couple of old photos of El Cotillo on a Fuerteventura Facebook page and thought people may be interested in seeing them to see how things have changed. I don’t know when the photos were taken unfortunately. The first picture is of the old harbour looking north. You can see that the…

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  • A walk along the beach to Torino’s Beach Bar El Cotillo

    A walk along the beach to Torino’s Beach Bar El Cotillo

    A few weeks ago I took a walk from the first beach to the north of the village, by the Marfolin Apartments. I walked long the beaches to Playa de la Concha and then continued on to what I know as Caleton beach – called that because of the Caleton apartments right by the beach.…

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  • A short update on the current situation

    A short update on the current situation

    I went to El Cotillo to get my hair cut and afterwards went for a trip around part of the village to see what is open now and also to see how busy it is. I started off in the new harbour area where the Olivo Corso has now reopened and also the Aguayre, the…

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