Lanzarote News In Brief – Week 32

Last Evidence Of Huge Tourism Development In Famara Being Removed

In the 1960’s the owner of a 538,000 square metre piece of land in Famara obtained permission to build what would have been The Canaries largest tourism complex, and one of the largest in Europe. The plan was to build one thousand villas, fourteen apartment buildings and a large hotel. Work was started in 1968, with the initial roads and some walls being put in, on the dunes. Work stopped a year later, to focus on the construction of the Norwegian bungalows. Work on the main construction never restarted, and the coasts department has now decided to remove the last vestiges of the roads and walls built in what is now a protected area.

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