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Finally, with only a week to go, they have released the El Cotillo Fiesta 2018 program of events! They don’t have a clue about publicity here in Fuerteventura. It all starts on Wednesday 15th August with a handball tournament on the beach and and finishes on Sunday 26th August.with a football tournament. The highlights (at…
A huge development has been proposed that would effectively join El Cotillo and El Roque together. This is reported in an article by Diariode Fuerteventura.com which also gives information on another big development in Parque Holandes. The full Spanish article can be found here. They are proposing that the huge development includes 3000 beds in…
Throughout July there will be lots of live music in El Cotillo. Venues, times and acts are as follows: 1st – Starting today at the Olivo Corso restaurant near the new harbour will be Flamenco music with Marien and Jordi from 20:30. 3rd – Alejandra and Andrea Brasil from 19:30 in Kalima 5th – Imma…
The Corralejo Camera Club is holding an exhibition of members work in the Castillo del Toston in El Cotillo. The exhibition will run throughout June and July (and again in October and November). Corralejo Camera Club hold regular meetings and organised trips to various locations around the island. They welcome new members, both residents and…
Cotillo Live Music festival will be held on 17th August 2018 in the football ground in El Cotillo. The artists that will be performing are: Juan Magan Carlos Baute K-Narias Tickets are General Entrance: 25€ and VIP Entrance: 45€. There are advance discount tickets available while stocks last for General Entrance: 20€ and VIP Entrance:…
The July Music Festival Cancelled. The annual El Cotillo music festival, which was due to take place on 6th and 7th July, has been cancelled.That is a bit of a blow for the village. The Festival Website states: “The Cabildo suspends the Fuerteventura Festival in Music 2018 The requirements of the Law on Contracts of…
Over the Easter period the La Oliva Ayuntamiento fined 17 camper vans in El Cotillo for parking overnight by Playa de la Concha (Shell Beach). Overnight parking has been banned at the beach to prevent the camper vans from using parking spaces normally used by daytime beach goers. The Ayuntamiento hopes this will help with…
GARAGE SURFBOARD SALE @RIDERS in EL COTILLO – this SATURDAY, 05.05.2018 from 10:00 – 17:00!! COME BY and check out USED SURFBOARDS for SALE (Softboards, NSP & Fibreglass) Check out their Shop (-10% on all products for residents) & have a nice COFFEE & CAKE-BREAK at Smoothie Fruit Bar Spot opposite. Website: www.riders-surfnbike.com
From the 23rd to 27th April it will be literary week in El Cotillo and elsewhere in the north of the island. It includes events in El Cotillo, at the Cultural Centre, Tindaya, Parque Hollandes, Caldereta, El Roque, Corralejo, Lajares and Villaverde. Everywhere but La Oliva it seems. It will take place in libraries and…
There are many activities planned for Easter in El Cotillo. From 8pm on Friday 30th March there will be lots of music of various kinds taking place in Plaza del Pueblo. Then from 12:00 on Saturday 31st March the El Cotillo Family Day will take place in the Old Harbour. There will be foam canons…
The El Cotillo Music Festival 2018 has been cancelled. See this post: https://www.elcotillo.net/2018/06/06/july-music-festival-cancelled/ The dates and line up of the El Cotillo Music Festival 2018 have been announced. This year it will take place over the weekend of 6th and 7th July in its usual venue of the Playa de la Concha. I think this…
Sadly, the shop has now closed A new, rather unique, shop, has just opened in El Cotillo called Cuchilleria de Francia. It sells a large range of French and Spanish knives of all types, shapes and sizes. The range includes kitchen knives, pen knives, fishing knives, knives with horse tools, multi-tools, knives with volcanic stone…
(Apologies – mostly translated by Google from Spanish) La Oliva, on January 25, 2018. “El Cotillo, we like it as it is, a town with fishing identity and not mass tourism,” said today the mayor of La Oliva, Jesse Blanco, before starting the full ordinary meeting. “We are committed to a sustainable model, to conserve…
This isn’t in El Cotillo, of course, but the Corralejo Carnival is worth going to see if you are staying in El Cotillo. The main carnival procession happens in evening of the last Saturday 3rd March. It takes some time to pass down the high street, perhaps 2 hours. It is reminiscent of the carnivals…
The Kite Festival timetable is now available and shows that it starts on the beaches of El Cotillo on 9th November. It is well worth taking the trip to Corralejo over the weekend as all the kite festival participants will be flying their kites then.
Meeting with the town council The La Oliva town hall has called a meeting in El Cotillo to discus topics of planning, infrastructure and other matters effecting the residents of El Cotillo. This will take place at the Cultural Centre on Monday 23rd October at 19:00. A chance for all residents to have their say…
A proposed new hotel is being planned in El Cotillo. It is intended to be built on the front line between the Marfolin apartments and the “Sotavento” apartments. It is also proposed to cover two plots taking it all the way back to the main road. It would house up to 500 tourists at a…