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Villa Winter

Pájara, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas

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Villa Winter

Curiosity · Pájara, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas

Image of Pájara, not of the place itself.

A mansion built between 1946 and 1954 in Cofete by the German engineer Gustav Winter (b. 1893), with thick walls, bricked-up doors, tunnels and a bunker that gave rise to never-proven legends about its supposed use as a Nazi submarine base during the Second World War. The house inspired literary works such as "Fuerteventura" (1999), by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, and "El contenido del silencio" (2011), by Lucía Etxebarria.

Photo: Dickelbers (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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