Saturday 10 November 2018

Abandoned Hotel - Part 1

About five miles outside Playa Blanca in Lanzarote is an abandoned hotel which I believe is called Hotel de los Charcones. I had seen it from distance on a previous walk and decided to investigate further.

Up close the building is huge with a couple of three story accommodation wings off a central complex which presumably would have included the entrance, lobby, restaurants etc. had it ever been finished. All that remains today is a concrete shell, lots of graffiti, and some evidence of squatter occupation of the apartment or bedroom spaces.

Having made the long walk from Pechiguerca lighthouse, I tried to make the most of the photographic opportunity and these are some of the results. This first selection sets the context for some of later shots by showing the approach to the hotel including one taken from the top of Montana Rouge which shows the position of the hotel on the coast:







The hotel has great position on the coast and I was interested in why it was never finished. A quick search on the internet revealed several stories including: a lack of a building permit when construction started in the 1970s; something to do with German businessmen and bankruptcy; it remains abandoned because it is too expensive to pull down; and it was going to be a golf complex but the land was too barren for growing grass! Whatever the reason it is stands isolated and derelict with a distinctly ghostly appearance.















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