Antigua
Antigua
Fuerteventura
Antigua is a municipality located in the central part of the island of Fuerteventura that reaches the east coast.
It is estimated that this municipality was the most inhabited area of the island, due to the important proto-urban nuclei that archaeological science has discovered so far, among which Los Corraletes, Rosita del Vicario and La Atalayita stand out.
After the arrival of the Castilians to Fuerteventura, it became an important hamlet, becoming the headquarters of the Judicial Party (1834), although only for one year.
The current municipal area of Antigua had good farmland, so that as the inter-island demand for grains grew, villages and hamlets emerged such as Triquivijate, Agua de Bueyes, Las Pocetas or Maninubre, among which the one of Antigua, which quickly became the most important in the region.
Here the traditional architecture of its farmhouses stand out; the gofio mills, the Church of Our Lady of Antigua and the Hermitages of San Isidro Labrador (Triquivijate), San Roque, Our Lady of Guadalupe and San Francisco Javier.
An important example of military architecture is the Castle that is located in Caleta de Fuste. It was built in the 18th century in order to defend the island.
Currently, it has on its coast one of the most important tourist enclaves on the island: Caleta de Fuste.
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