Ecomuseo de la Alcogida

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.