{"id":37,"date":"2019-08-27T19:26:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site61.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/08\/27\/betancuria\/"},"modified":"2019-08-27T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:29:47","slug":"betancuria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/2019\/08\/27\/betancuria\/","title":{"rendered":"Betancuria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/62\/files\/sites\/62\/2019\/08\/Fuerteventura-VIP-Betancuria-04-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Betancuria\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betancuria<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Betancuria \u2013<\/strong> this town, located in the mid-west part of Fuerteventura, was founded in 1404 by the Norman knight Jean de Bethencourt (making it one of the most important colonial landmarks of the island).<\/p>\n<p>Those visitors who are looking for a glimpse of this town\u2019s past (which was a former capital of the island) will come across religious sites such as the church of Santa Mar\u00eda de la Concepci\u00f3n; the chapels of Santa In\u00e9s and Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Pe\u00f1a, as well as the old Franciscan convent of San Buenaventura. Such visitors will also want to visit the Museum of Sacred Art and Fuerteventura\u00b4s Museum of Archaeology. There are a couple of vantage points along highway FV-30 (towards Antigua town) with stunning views of the Betancuria terrain, adored with hills and ravines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betancuria \u2013 this town, located in the mid-west part of Fuerteventura, was founded in 1404 by the Norman knight Jean de Bethencourt (making it one of the most important colonial landmarks of the island). Those visitors who are looking for a glimpse of this town\u2019s past (which was a former capital of the island) will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.fuerteventuravip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}