Costa Teguise
| Teguise Municipality: Costa Teguise | |||
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 Costa Teguise, aerial view
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| coat of arms | Map of the Canary Islands | ||
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| Autonomous Community : | Canary Islands | ||
| Province : | Las Palmas | ||
| Island: | Lanzarote | ||
| Coordinates | 29 ° 0 ′ N , 13 ° 29 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 7,629 (2011) INE | ||
| Founding: | around 1970 | ||
| Postal code : | 35508 | ||
| Area code: | 35024000500 | ||
Costa Teguise is one of the three major holiday centers on to Spain belonging Canary Island of Lanzarote . The place on the east coast is about ten kilometers northeast of the island's capital Arrecife .
character
The large Spanish industrial company Unión Explosivos Riotinto , still under the leadership of the later Spanish Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo , bought a plot of around 12 million square meters in the plain on the east coast in the late 1960s to create a tourist resort called Urbanización Costa de Teguise baptized. It should become the tourist heart of the island. This early 1970s began retort city was specifically for tourism in the municipality of Teguise established. The well-known Lanzarote architect and environmentalist César Manrique played a decisive role in its creation in the early years . In 1970 he designed the gardens and swimming pools of the island's first five-star hotel, the Melia Salinas , whose architect was Fernando Higueras . The other buildings of the new resort should be built in the white Canarian style with green or brown windows. The number of floors was limited. It is still possible to see the Pueblo Marinero , which he designed as a holiday village, with its two-story buildings at most, on Avenida de las Islas Canarias in the center of Costa Teguise. In some places the picture has changed today due to the construction of larger hotel buildings.
Fewer locals live on the Costa Teguise, but there are many tourists. The number of inhabitants is given as 7629 (as of 2011). One looks in vain for a city center; Especially in the area of the Avenida de las Islas Canarias there are numerous restaurants, shops and car rental companies. On the long beach promenade, which now extends continuously along the entire coast of Costa Teguise, there are numerous pubs, beer gardens and cafes. The Lanzarote Aquarium is one of the smaller attractions . All four sandy beaches are of natural origin, but were and will be created and maintained in a way that is suitable for tourists by means of regular, artificial fillings. They are called Playa de los Charcos , Playa de las Cucharas , Playa del Jablillo and Playa Bastián . Windsurfers will find good conditions at Playa de las Cucharas .
traffic
There are public bus connections, in particular to Arrecife and Puerto del Carmen (every twenty minutes during the day) and to Teguise and Caleta de Famara (several times a day). Costa Teguise does not have its own port.
