The Area
With three thousand hours of sunshine a year, 
Fuerteventura is the closest Canary Island to the African coast with only 100km separating the 'Punta de la Entallada' from Cape Juby in Morroco and is the second largest (after Tenerife) of all the islands. It is approx 98km long and 30km across at the widest point.
There are a variety of inexpensive flights available from the UK to Fuerteventura. Operators include Iberia, Excel, Thomas Cook Airlines, First Choice and Thomson Fly. The latter alone offers direct flights from Birmingham,Bristol,Glasgow,Gatwick, Stanstead, Manchester, Newcastle and Nottingham all the year round and also from Humberside and Leeds-Bradford between May and October.
The weather conditions of Fuerteventura are very similar to Florida and Mexico which are on the same latitude, which make this the ideal holiday location. Temperatures vary from an average 21ºC (70ºF) in January to an average 28ºC (82ºF) in August.
There is 
nowhere else in the Canaries with as many enormous sand dunes and long sandy beaches (more than one hundred and fifty). Even though most of the land consists of stone and rock, these are some of the most impressive beaches in the whole of Europe.
In the history of time Fuerteventura is generally regarded as the oldest of all the Canaries and its strange contours come from various volcanic episodes. The last eruption occurred around 7,000 years ago so you're pretty safe.
Water sports are very popular in Fuerteventura. Every year hundreds of surfers, windsurfers and divers descend on Fuerteventura and during July the island is host to the P.W.A world windsurfing speed and slalom event at Sotavento in the south. You can also take a short boat trip over to the small island of Los Lobos (only 6sqkm) and really get away from it all.
La Oliva
The village of La Oliva 
was the political centre of Fuerteventura from the early 17th to mid-19th century, and you can still see some of the buildings standing today. La Oliva is now home to the local district town hall (Ayuntamiento). About half an hour from the airport this delightful small town has a health centre, kindergarten, secondary school, church and a large municipal swimming pool. Only ten minute in car separates this town from the idyllic beach of El Cotillo and other beaches are within easy reach.
The church has a bell tower visible from afar and houses a large painting of The Last Judgment by the eighteenth century painter Juan de Miranda. Also of interest is the 'Casa de los coroneles', where the military governors used to reside.
Rosa de la Choza
Rosa de la Choza is small scale luxury development of four villas on the edge of La Oliva. Mount Tindaya is cleary visible from these villas. This is the chosen site for the large-scale sculpture that the architect Eduardo Chillida plans to make inside the mountain. 
A 45m x 50m x 65m 'carved space' inside Mount Tindaya - one of the largest underground caverns ever constructed and the only one of its size with a flat roof. This project is expected to be completed by 2010 and also serves to guarantee the investment value of theses properties.