A whole hamlet, not a single house
La Alcogida was a real settlement, and the museum is that settlement — seven houses of a genuine hamlet at Tefía, restored rather than reconstructed, each still known by the family that lived there. The point of showing seven is social range: at one end a single-room labourer's dwelling with a beaten-earth floor, at the other a two-storey house with a wooden balcony, a staircase and a tiled roof, which on Fuerteventura signalled real money. Walking between them in twenty minutes tells you more about the island's rural class structure than any panel could.
The interiors are furnished rather than empty. You see the low beds, the grain stores, the kitchen and its cooking hearth, and the tools a family needed to farm a landscape that barely rains. Dry stone walls, cisterns and animal pens fill the ground between the buildings, and you walk the site at your own pace rather than in a group. It is the most honest picture of pre-tourism Fuerteventura anywhere on the island.
