Improvements to Facilities on Fuerteventuras Beaches, Canary Islands

Improvements to Facilities on the Islands Beaches

Corralejo’s beaches and facilities are to be improved to attract more visitors to the area, La Oliva council has announced. Families struggling through the sand with pushchairs will soon be a thing of the past as the council is installing wooden walk ways on the beaches of Corralejo, Viejo, Las Clavellinas, Muelle Chico and La Concha in El Cotillo.
The walk ways will be approximately 100 metres long and are made of pine and will aid access to the beaches in the area. Over the next few weeks other improvements will be taking shape. These include three new toilet blocks with changing rooms, two new first aid points, six outside showers, 105 new waste paper bins, five new life guard stations, bathing facilities for the disabled and fifty new benches.
The La Oliva council has stated that the new facilities were a priority as tourism is so important to the community and the beaches are one of the main attractions.
Corralejo Tourism Office

Fuerteventura Blue Flag Beaches for Summer 2008

Five of Fuerteventura’s “best” beaches will be proudly flying the coveted blue flag this summer: Gran Tarajal, Costa Calma, Matorral, Butihono (Pajara) and the beaches of La Oliva have been singled out for the quality of the waters, rescue staff, sands and services as being worthy of the blue flag, which is awarded on an annual basis by the European Federation for the Environment.

This year the distinguished blue flags will be flying in more than thirty countries in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and the Caribbean helping tourists unfamiliar with the area to find not only the safest, cleanest, most environmentally friendly beaches but also the beaches where nature and progress have reached the perfect balance.
Not to be left out of the awards, 7 Gran Canarian beaches will also be flying the prestigious Blue Flags this summer. Playa de Mogan, Amadores, San Agustin, Playa del Ingles, Melenara and Las Canteras have all been singled out as worthy. In particular the Port of Mogan won the award for the first time having been designed to allow fresh sea water to circulate in the harbour.