Casa Montelongo Is an Adults-only Resort in Spain’s Canary Islands

• The lodge is positioned 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 lodge staff will help organize island experiences reminiscent of off-site dinners, stargazing, and water sports activities.

Fuerteventura, the laid-back Spanish island in the Canary Islands identified for its diversified landscapes and wild black- and golden-sand seashores, has a design-focused adults-only lodge, Casa Montelongo, which opened final yr.

Situated 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 completely on photo voltaic vitality.

Casa Montelongo’s minimal design is paired with an nearly 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 reminiscent of stone, wooden, clay, lime, and glass.

The 2 lodging—one constructed within the footprint of a theatre and the opposite of the previous residence—may 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 affords complimentary day by day breakfast ready with seasonal elements sourced from native distributors.

One other standout characteristic of the lodge is its curated modern artwork assortment, together with a sculpture by Tenerife multidisciplinary artist Óscar Latuag on the pool’s far wall. The summary art work celebrates the island’s pure range by referencing native flora reminiscent of 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

The curated expertise extends past the partitions of Casa Montelongo. The staff 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 mountaineering routes, browsing or surf lessons (the closest seashores are a few 20-minute drive from the lodge), boat days, or exploring the close by islands of Lobos and Lanzarote.

Nightly charges on the lodge begin from $262.