Casa Montelongo Is an Adults-only Lodge 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 front room. 
• Friends share a 36-foot-long pool, a patio, and a backyard.
• The lodge staff might help organize island experiences resembling off-site dinners, stargazing, and water sports activities.

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

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 house of a neighborhood household into a contemporary retreat that runs totally 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 resembling stone, wooden, clay, lime, and glass.

The 2 lodging—one constructed within the footprint of a theatre and the opposite of the previous house—could be booked individually or collectively. They characteristic open-plan kitchens with eating rooms, spacious dwelling rooms, and separate bedrooms.
Each apartment-like items can accommodate two individuals and boast luxe facilities like rain showers, Aesop toiletries, dressing rooms, and Cometa cotton bedding. Casa Montelongo additionally presents complimentary each 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 paintings celebrates the island’s pure range by referencing native flora resembling 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 mountain climbing routes, browsing or surf lessons (the closest seashores are a couple of 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.