Fuerteventura Corralejo dunes
— a Sahara the Atlantic carried over.
Not only on a wall.
Fuerteventura Corralejo dunes, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Pale gold dunes that move a little every year, walked by the trade winds off Africa. The sand is mostly shell and coral, not desert sand, though it reads the same from the road. The protected stretch runs eight kilometres south from Corralejo town, with the cone of Lobos sitting just offshore. Most visitors stop at one pull-off and never see the inner basins.
The place, in three passes.
The Parque Natural de las Dunas de Corralejo covers roughly 2,600 hectares along the northeastern coast of Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands. It was declared a natural park in 1982 and sits between the town of Corralejo and the village of El Cotillo. The FV-1a road runs the eastern edge, giving a long view across to the islet of Lobos and, on clear mornings, to Lanzarote beyond. The reserve is part of a designated UNESCO biosphere covering the whole island.
The constant northeast trade wind — the alisio — moves the dune field a small distance each year, scouring the eastern faces and depositing on the lee slopes. The same wind makes the coast a long-standing site for kitesurfing and windsurfing world tour events out of nearby Sotavento. Average annual rainfall sits below 150 millimetres, so the dunes carry almost no vegetation across their crests. Mornings stay cool until about ten; the afternoon glare flattens everything to a single tone.
Corralejo town sits about 38 kilometres north of the airport at El Matorral, an easy hour by car on the FV-2. The park has no entry fee and no fence. The most-walked entry is from the large lay-by opposite the Riu hotels; quieter access is from the El Jable track on the western side. Ferries to Isla de Lobos leave from Corralejo harbour and require an advance permit through the Cabildo de Fuerteventura, capped at 400 visitors per day.
