Betancuria

Member of Los Pueblos más Bonitos de España

mroszewskiBetancuria, en Fuerteventura (Las Palmas, España)CC BY-SA 3.0
Holger Uwe Schmitt+ Betancuria war früher die Hauptstadt der Insel Fuerteventura. 12 CC BY-SA 4.0
Holger Uwe Schmitt+ Betancuria war früher die Hauptstadt der Insel Fuerteventura. 01 CC BY-SA 4.0
Holger Uwe Schmitt+ Betancuria war früher die Hauptstadt der Insel Fuerteventura. 05 CC BY-SA 4.0
Holger Uwe Schmitt+ Betancuria war früher die Hauptstadt der Insel Fuerteventura. 06 CC BY-SA 4.0
Holger Uwe Schmitt+ Betancuria war früher die Hauptstadt der Insel Fuerteventura. 15 CC BY-SA 4.0
Holger Uwe Schmitt+ Betancuria war früher die Hauptstadt der Insel Fuerteventura. 26 CC BY-SA 4.0
Holger Uwe Schmitt+ Betancuria war früher die Hauptstadt der Insel Fuerteventura. 29 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Frank VincentzBetancuria Vega de Río Palmas - FV30- Calle Pedro Peña 02 ies CC BY-SA 3.0
PaginazeroBetancuria from Morro Veloso CC BY-SA 2.5
MateoTimateoBetancuria-desde-Degollada-de-Marrubio CC BY-SA 4.0
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For more than four centuries this inland valley town was the capital of Fuerteventura, founded by the Norman Jean de Béthencourt in the early 1400s and set back from the coast, out of reach of pirates. Berber raiders still sacked it in 1593, but the rebuilt church of Santa María remains the island's mother church. Bare mountains, protected as the Betancuria rural park, close in on every side.

Highlights

Church of Santa María, the island's mother church and briefly a cathedral
Vega de Río Palmas hermitage of the Virgen de la Peña, the island's patron
September pilgrimage in honour of the Virgen de la Peña
Ermita de Santa Inés, built soon after the conquest, in Valle de Santa Inés
Betancuria rural park, rising to Pico de la Atalaya at 725 metres (ES)

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Betancuria (ES), Betancuria (EN), Betancuria (IT)). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Population: 801

Things to see

Museo Arqueológico de Fuerteventura (ES)
Nuestra Señora de la Peña (ES)
Santa Maria de Betancuria (ES)

Events through the year

Feast of Saint Bonaventure Religious · 14 JulyLocal holiday for the historic patron of Betancuria
Feast of Saint Bartholomew Religious · 24 August
Romería of the Virgen de la Peña Religious · SeptemberPilgrimage to the hermitage in Vega de Río Palmas, in the municipality