Parque escultórico Puerto del Rosario

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.