Playa Blanca

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Playa Blanca ( German: white beach ), formerly a fishing village, is now a tourist center in the south of the Canary Island of Lanzarote. 2011 11 301 inhabitants lived in the belongs to the municipality of Yaiza village.

Character

It was initially trying to get the character of the village, despite many tourist facilities. This tourist buildings are often self-contained systems that are trying to form a community after the Pueblo principle. But is recognizable often find the same sequence of standard buildings as a result of land speculation by the law of mass tourism.

Playa Blanca has a coastal promenade that overlooks both on the island itself, as well as on the neighboring island of Fuerteventura. To her there are numerous restaurants and bars as well as a number of shops. The promenade runs including through the new Marina Rubicon. Here you will find more restaurants and leisure facilities.

From the harbor there are many daily ferry services to the shipping companies Fred. Olsen Express and Naviera Armas to Corralejo to the neighboring island of Fuerteventura. The crossing takes about half an hour.

Three kilometers west of Playa Blanca you will pass the 194 -meter high red ash volcano Montaña Roja, on a hiking trail leading up to finally reach the old, built in 1936 Fischer Faro de Pechiguera. This marks the southwestern tip of Lanzarote. Right next to built a new, higher Lighthouse 1986. The extinct volcano has a surface area of approximately 1.5 square kilometers. The edges of the mountain are more than halfway built up with residential facilities.

Northeast of the village you will find the beaches of Papagayo.