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The Salt Museum - Fuerteventura salt museum
is situated in teh town of las Salinas in the district of La Antigua. It is a
cultural complex formed by the El Carmen Salt Flats built in around 1910 and a
museum centre that provides an overall view
of the culture arising around salt.
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The museum offers two additional routes: one inside and the
other outside. Your visit should begin wiwth the inside route in the museum
center. Which is divided
into the following parts: Localization, formation and
history of salt. Saline ecosystems. Salt culture and applications. The salt
flats of the Canary Island.
The El Carmen salt flats.
The outside route consists of the visit to the El Carmen
Salt Flats where you can see the architectural characteristics, the different
structural elements, the salt production process and the beautiful surrounding
countryside.
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Mirador de Morro Velosa - Built in the geographical center
of the
island, the massif called the Macizo de Betancuria,
and divised by the
celebrated Cesar Manrique. In the center the incredible landscape of the
central-north area of the island can be admired from a perspective
difficult to find in other places on the island.
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Ecomuseo La Alcogida - Made up of a group of seven houses which are
examples of traditional architecture. The ecomuseum recreates rural life,
with crafts, livestock and farming activities out in situ.
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Molino de Antigua - This mill crafts center consists of a
windmill uses to produce gofio (tosted ground maize or wheat) where you
will see the machinary behind this example of traditional engineering.
There also some well-kept gardens with indigenous plants, a craft
store, and an exhibition hall for paiting and archaeological exhibits.
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Casa Museo unamuno - House museum where one can view the spaces and
objects that were familiar to unamuno. There are also photographs and
texts he wrote which show the intense relationship the writer
established with the island.
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Casa Museo Doctor Mena - Known today as "The Alfaro´House", it was
bequeathed by Doctor Mena. This house museum has been filled with
objects typically found in a well-to-do rural house.
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