The writer and professor at the University of Salamanca don Miguel de Unamuno was confined to the island of Fuerteventura due to his confrontations with the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera for criticism of the political situation in Spain. Unamuno lived for 4 months in Fuerteventura and more than a punishment, his stay on the island turned the writer into a gift. He became friends with many inhabitants, especially with the intellectual Ramón Castañeyra with whom he enjoyed social gatherings at the writer's house.

This house is located in Puerto del Rosario, in front of the church of the town. The building was once a hotel, it was hosted by Professor Miguel de Unamuno after the banishment order. This House-Museum has the objective of spreading the work that the playwright produced in Fuerteventura. The house is a construction that has all the details of Canarian domestic architecture of the early twentieth century. It has access hall to the house, rooms that overlook a central courtyard with water tank that collects rainwater.

During his stay, the writer delved into Fuerteventura in his vision of a Spain Quixotic; the narrowness of Malpaís, the fauna and flora or the sea will be universal elements integrated into your thinking. In many of his writings is reflected the footprint that the island was for his work and how it connected with his metaphysical and aesthetic thinking.

Miguel de Unamuno called the hotel that ran Paco Medina, his innkeeper and there were many gatherings with friends from the Canary Islands and the Peninsula. , Francisco López, official, the fisherman Antonio Hormiga, the parish priest Victor San Martín or the aforementioned Ramón Castañeyra were some of the friendships that were part of the animated talks.

The Basque writer had an intense activity, discover Canarian authors, write articles, start the sonnets that will appear in his work From Fuerteventura to Paris. For a better knowledge of the figure of the writer, you just have to visit the House-Museum.

Puerto del Rosario is also known by the name of the City of Sculpture. It receives this name due to the sculptural park that compose more than 100 sculptures and that are located in many places of public of the city.

The large number of sculptures that populate all the points of Puerto del Rosario turns the city into an open-air museum. Since the beginning of the year 2000 many artists have looked for a corner of this city to exhibit some of their works. Strolling through the capital of Fuerteventura you can find all kinds of sculptures, from characters like Unamuno, Suso Machín or Manuel Velázquez going through animals like goats or stonechat and reaching symbolic forms as sirocco.

The sculptures distributed by Puerto del Rosario are a tribute to popular customs and customs, to the culture of the island and, in general, to the inhabitants of this special place. You can start from the sculpture that is in La Explanada, which is the historic center from which the city began to grow, it was here where the main pier and the small dock were located. This is called La Fuente de la Explanada.

From here begins the tour that will take all visitors to find in each corner of Puerto del Rosario wonderful artistic works. For example Caracolas, a set of 4 sculptures signed by Juan Bordes, between the commercial dock and La Explanda. Other outstanding works can be Pescador de Viejas, made in granite from the Betancuria area of the artist Juan Miguel Cubas. Offering to the Sea belongs to the artist Demetrio Martín, in Barrio de Negrín, right at the seafront.

Continuing we can find Tribute to the Moon from Rinaldo Paluzzi, Skeleton of A Whale, A Tropical Whale that forms part of the project La Senda de los Cetacáceos, which emerges from the collaboration between the Cabildo de Fuerteventura and the Canarias Conservación association. Overseas Baggage from Eduardo Úrculo, or Las Cabras from Emiliano G. Hernandez. So up to about 130 works of art scattered on the street.

Discovering the more traditional side of Fuerteventura is possible thanks to Ecomuseo de la Alcogida, located very close to Puerto del Rosario and the population of Tefir. The houses of the enclosure were inhabited until the seventies being restored from 1992.

This peculiar museum is not only limited to exposing handicraft works that makes transport to its visitors to the way of working of the craftsmen of yesteryear , but the same visitors can make their own pieces. The site is composed of seven rehabilitated houses that show the architectural style of the island with great detail, from the simple and sober peasant's house to the stately homes with balconies and wooden stairs with two floors and tiles.

The Ecomuseum of the Alcogida is a living and interactive museum, it is possible to receive explanations from the craftsmen who worked these crafts formerly: agriculture, livestock, handicrafts of the palm, the draft , the mud or the loom.

The museum takes a tour through the life of the peasants majoneros from the XIX century until a few years ago, when the trades were still carried out crafts. It is also possible to see animals that were part of the domestic fauna: goats, donkeys or even camels and flora composed of tuneras, tabaibas or palm trees that coexist in the landscape of the island.

Very interesting is also the part dedicated to everyday life, where you can know the way of collecting water, taste a freshly baked bread in the old way or see old eras where the harvest was worked and pajeros.In fact La Alcogida receives this name because it was a land for the collection of rainwater and that they were channeled to a cistern where this scarce good was stored in the area.

With the curious name of Casa de Felipito the Ugly is this public space converted into a recreational area that belongs to the Network of Centers and Museums of the Cabildo Insular. This recreational area is located in the Llano del Triguero, receives this name because it was a place dedicated to the sowing of cereals, between the intersection of Barranco de la Herradura and the Time, very close to the village of Guisguey.

The Casa de Felipito is a very special place, currently it is converted into a picnic area where you can make barbecues with wood ovens that recreates the habitat of a majestic peasant village.

It is an ideal place to enjoy a day with family or friends, in addition to the grills also has tables, benches and roofed areas, playground, Canarian ball court and areas with flora such as bougainvillea, aloe , pomegranates, fig trees, olive trees, etc.

The recreation area is named after Felipe Ruíz González,, popularly known as Felipito el Feo, who was a Majorero character who lived at the beginning of twentieth century with their parents. The construction is a typical house in which you can see how modest were the homes of the peasants, with three rooms and a left-over one, which is a room in height and that is also restored.

It turns out that Felipito was the owner of the land that he prepared for the cultivation, he built walls to prevent the wind from destroying the crops, he devised a system of channeling water to collect it when it rained and to be able to water the topsails that I had. Felipito has become a clear example of the struggle of the majoneros against the inclemencies of the weather to have an optimal area for cultivation despite being rocky terrain and strong winds. All this was achieved through work, with his own hands, enthusiasm and perseverance.