Jandía, a natural park with a difference
The south of Fuerteventura features wild mountains and idyllic beaches
When Miguel de Unamuno arrived on Fuerteventura, exiled by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he remarked that the scorched land resembled a skeleton model of the mainland. After several months in his new home, Don Miguel learned to look at Fuerteventura with different eyes and began to acknowledge his deep seated affection for the moors that had reminded him so much of certain parts of Castile. In the south of the second largest Canary island, there is a natural park which shows the vivid and wild side of the island, coloured by the ochre tone that characterises the natural landscape of Maxorata (the ancient name of the island). Jandía, with its bare mountains and idyllic beaches, is a special place where it is easy to lose yourself among the wild beauty of this pure island |