Every time we travel the FV 10 on our way to El Cotillo, we pass the sign for Vallebrón and I think to myself 'I must make a detour one day'.

So a couple of weeks ago I did just that and a very nice detour it is too.

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Then followed the road on to La Oliva, which is somewhere I've usually

Drove back through Vallebrón today and stopped to take a few pics. It's a lovely way to get from the East to the West of the island.

[Image: https://i.imgur.com/SwAZM3i.jpg] a 50m length of Cobea in bloom! [Image: https://i.imgur.com/CKJAHPz.jpg] 

[Image: https://i.imgur.com/38tAyOA.jpg] a drunk palm tree

[Image: https://i.imgur.com/bPJYnb8.jpg] the last property on the western side of the village has plans to plant something, loads of holes dug,

Radio Sintonia:

Hermitage of San Pedro and San Juan, a building with 300 years of history in Vallebrón.

Fuerteventura has several hermitages spread throughout the island. Some of them are more than 3 centuries old. The walls of these buildings hold true relics of several centuries. The hermitage of San Pedro y San Juan, in Vallebrón (La Oliva), is a monument declared of Cultural Interest, with the category of Monument by Decree 260/1993, of September 24, of the Government of the Canary Isl

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Isabel Darias and Jorge Fleitas, living memory of Vallebrón.

Isabel Darias (Vallebron, 1950) and Jorge Fleitas (La Oliva, 1948) help us to understand how the old society of Vellebrón developed life. It is a protected area with an area of more than 1,600 hectares in the municipality of La Oliva, crossed by two huts, Valle Largo and Valle Chico. On the tour of the town, which we start from the hermitage of San Juan, we are accompanied by the Councilor for Agriculture, Livesto