Yet another urbex geocache of Thetris. Enjoy this nice and desolate location!!
In the eighties Fuerteventura lived immersed in the tourist take-off. These were times when everyone wanted to get on the tourism train, hotels appeared under the carpets and the ghost of partial plans flew over the whole Island. In that context, New Horizon emerged at the end of that decade, with the intention of becoming an important tourist centre as an extension of El Castillo.
However, that dream was short-lived and eventually became an area with ghost developments and, in statistics, as one of the ten poorest neighbourhoods in the Canary Islands. Nuevo Horizonte is the story of what could have been and stayed halfway.
In that coastal strip, in urban planning, on paper, the plans Mountain of Money, Plains of Money or Miraflor were drawn. In total, forecasts of more than 10,000 tourist beds less than two kilometres from the airport. It even projected a water park in the nineties that opened for a brief period. At present, and despite the change of official name - from the reviled Nuevo Horizonte to the aseptic Costa de Antigua -, what was considered as a leading tourist area has become a town with more problems than tourists.
The licenses were allowed to die. He looked towards the area of Caleta de Fuste to the detriment of Costa de Antigua, and Nuevo Horizonte ended up becoming a dormitory city, but with hardly any services. Now his neighbours fight to dignify New Horizon. The Italian Giuseppe Signorino is, for six years, president of the Association of Neighbors of Costa de Antigua. Together with a group of residents, he regrets the abandonment in which the area is immersed. They say that Nuevo Horizonte has the problems of a neighbourhood that "has been abandoned for 20 years."
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The park opened in the 90s and was just open for a few months and had hardly any visitors. And it was abandoned and left to rot.
At the GZ you can enter the park on the sea side. Please bring a torch since the entrance is dark. You also require a torch to find the cache. Please look closely at the pictures.
Please make sure you wear closed walking shoes and no flipflops because like on most urbex locations there is a lot of broken glass and dangerous objects on the floor.
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