- The resort is situated within the quaint city of La Oliva, within the northern a part of Fuerteventura in Spain’s Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa.
- It has two one-bedroom suites, every with a full-service kitchen, eating room, and a spacious lounge.
- Visitors share a 36-foot-long pool, a patio, and a backyard.
- The resort crew might help organize island experiences similar to off-site dinners, stargazing, and water sports activities.
Fuerteventura, the laid-back Spanish island in the Canary Islands identified for its various landscapes and wild black- and golden-sand seashores, has a design-focused adults-only resort, Casa Montelongo, which opened final 12 months.
Positioned within the quaint northern city of La Oliva, the intimate property has simply two residential-style suites, a 36-foot-long pool, a backyard, and a patio. Spanish–born, Berlin-based architect Néstor Pérez Batista was tasked with changing the previous Nineteenth-century residence of an area household into a contemporary retreat that runs solely on photo voltaic power.
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Casa Montelongo’s minimal design is paired with an virtually all-white palette punctuated by colourful artwork and furnishings all through the property. Pérez Batista paid tribute to the island’s heritage by incorporating native supplies similar to stone, wooden, clay, lime, and glass.
The 2 lodging—one constructed within the footprint of a theatre and the opposite of the outdated residence—might be booked individually or collectively. They characteristic open-plan kitchens with eating rooms, spacious residing rooms, and separate bedrooms.
Each apartment-like items can accommodate two folks and boast luxe facilities like rain showers, Aesop toiletries, dressing rooms, and Cometa cotton bedding. Casa Montelongo additionally gives complimentary day by day breakfast ready with seasonal elements sourced from native distributors.
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One other standout characteristic of the resort is its curated modern artwork assortment, together with a sculpture by Tenerife multidisciplinary artist Óscar Latuag on the pool’s far wall. The summary paintings celebrates the island’s pure variety by referencing native flora similar to lichen, prickly pear, and agave leaves. Because the solar strikes overhead all through the day, so, too, does the sculpture’s interaction of shadows and shapes
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The curated expertise extends past the partitions of Casa Montelongo. The crew can help with something from laundry service to arranging journey particulars like transportation, eating places, and actions, together with in-room massages, cultural visits, bike or mountain climbing routes, browsing or surf courses (the closest seashores are a few 20-minute drive from the resort), boat days, or exploring the close by islands of Lobos and Lanzarote.
Nightly charges on the resort begin from $262.