La Santa

Continuing our trip to the north coast, we soon arrive at the prosperous coastal village of La Santa, home to the large sporting complex of Club La Santa, the world’s top professional sports centre, providing accommodation as well as coaching and training facilities for 64 Olympic disciplines, a record that is notable enough to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

There is no other sports hotel in the world that offers professionals and amateur sports enthusiasts a similar infrastructure. In winter, the professional sports elite trains here and there are even an Olympic pool and an athletics stadium as well as an artificial lagoon for beginners’ courses in windsurfing.

Profiting from the affluence to the sports centre, the village of La Santa itself boasts a number of good seafood restaurants, making it worthwhile to plan your lunch stop here.

About 2 km east of the village is the deeper lying peninsula of La Isleta, which is linked by bridges and cut off from the mainland only at very high tides. A road, favourite with joggers, runs all around it, providing some nice viewpoints. The high waves of its coasts attract many windsurfers.