Category: El Cotillo News

  • Umami Fruit and Vegetables

    Umami Fruit and Vegetable Shop

    Sadly, the shop appears to have closed now. The Umami Fruit and veg shop in Avenue Los Lagos (the main road to the lagoons) is offering fruit and veg packages which seem good value. All fresh local organic produce and they will even deliver locally. Orders should be made 24 hours in advance by phone…

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    Meeting To Discuss El Cotillo Bus Service

    The Town Hall has announced that there will be a meeting held in the Cultural Centre in El Cotillo on Monday 14th January at 18:00 (6pm). The objective of the meeting is to allow residents to make their views known about the future of bus transportation to and from El Cotillo. Amazingly they have actually…

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  • El Cotillo Craft Market 7th December - with live music 1

    El Cotillo Craft Market 7th December – with live music

    With the usual amount of massive notice – this was just released today (when will they ever learn) – tomorrow’s craft market (7th December) will take place from 18:00 to 21:00 as usual but will also have live music from Manu, with his one man show. The craft market has handicrafts made in Fuerteventura, paintings…

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  • Cotilleando 2018

    Cotilleando – 13th and 14th Ocober 2018

    El Cotillo will have almost 40 international artists with all kinds of shows. Culture and artistic expression for all tastes in this festival that doesn’t stop growing. It will be Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October, and we will have circus, acrobatic, musical shows, craft shows, dance and hip hop, clown acrobatics, and also new…

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  • Dunes Road Closure Protest | Protest against the FV1 Closure 2

    Dunes Road Closure Protest | Protest against the FV1 Closure

    At 8pm on Saturday 8th September a dunes road closure protest will be held in Plaza Patricio Calera (behind the little Shell petrol station) in Corralejo. This is to protest against the closure of the dunes road (FV1) until 6th October because of the filming of Wonder Woman 2. This is a video of the…

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  • 2018 International Kite Festival.

    2018 International Kite Festival

    Only a few months now until this year’s 2018 International Kite Festival.  It will be held from 8th to 11th November. We believe the first day, the 8th, will be on Playa de la Concha in El Cotillo. This is without a doubt the most colourful event of the year in Fuerteventura so well worth…

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  • El Cotillo Q&A

    El Cotillo Q&A and Walkabout Video

    I answered some El Cotillo Q&A (questions and answers about living in Fuerteventura) in this video and also took a walk around to show what is happening in the village and also any new shops, restaurants that have opened since my “El Cotillo video: What’s it like video” – https://youtu.be/6kbCz9BMuuE A number of new shops…

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  • El Cotillo Fiesta 2018 - Program of Events 3

    El Cotillo Fiesta 2018 – Program of Events

    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…

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  • El Cotillo Piedra Playa Cliff Landslides Warning 4

    El Cotillo Piedra Playa Cliff Landslides Warning

    The Ayuntaniento of La Oliva (Town Hall) has put up signs at the southern end of Piedra Playa warning of the danger from a cliff landslides. There have been a number of cliff landslides over the years between southern end of Piedra Playa (Surfers’ Beach) and the next beach, which is really only accessible at…

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    Huge development proposal between El Cotillo and El Roque

    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…

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  • Live music in El Cotillo

    Live Music in El Cotillo Throughout July – Cotillo en Vivo

    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…

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  • Corralejo Camera Club Photography Exhibition

    Corralejo Camera Club Photography Exhibition

    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…

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  • Cotillo Live Music

    Cotillo Live Music Festival – El Cotillo Football Ground

    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:…

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  • Music Festival Cancelled Fuerteventura en Música Cancelled

    The July Music Festival Cancelled

    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…

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  • Camper Vans in El Cotillo Get Fined 6

    Camper Vans in El Cotillo Get Fined

    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…

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  • Surfboard Sale at Riders on Saturday 7

    Surfboard Sale at Riders on Saturday

    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

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  • Literary Week in El Cotillo 8

    Literary Week in El Cotillo

    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…

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  • Easter in El Cotillo 9

    Easter in El Cotillo

    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…

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  • Music Festival Cancelled Fuerteventura en Música Cancelled

    El Cotillo Music Festival 2018 – Fuerteventura en Musica

    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…

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  • Olivo Corso

    New Bar/Restaurant Opens – Olivo Corso

    A new bar/restaurant has opened in El Cotillo called Olivo Corso. It is located in Calle Mallorquin which is the small road behind the Aguayre cafe, near the new harbour. The chef owner is Frederic Grimaldi, originally from Corsica, who has been the head chef at the Vaca Azul in El Cotillo for many years.…

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