THE PURPOSE IS TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO ISOLATED LIVESTOCK FARMINGS THROUGH SIGNAGE AND PRINTED MATERIAL.

The Antigua City Council has completed the signage of the municipality's Cheese Route, which has included in the first phase the installation of indicative signs and interpretive tables in three languages ​​– Spanish, english and german- in various areas of the municipality, with the purpose of facilitating access to different points of sale of artisanal cheese in Los Alares, Las Pocetas and El Pocillo.

The city council has undertaken this action thanks to the subsidy obtained through the Axis 4 (LEADER) of the Canary Islands Rural Development Program 2007-2013 on the island of Fuerteventura, managed by the Association for the Management of Rural Development “Maxorata Verde”, GDR-Mahorata. The Antigua City Council has assumed the 55% of the total cost of this project, Meanwhile he 45% The remainder has come from the European Fund for Agriculture and Rural Development (EAFRD), the General Administration of the State and the regional Government.

The councilor responsible for the Livestock Department, Jesus Cubas, He noted that this initiative “aims to promote and enhance the municipality's artisanal cheeses.”, which are sold on livestock farms located in many cases in isolated areas, which implies greater difficulty in accessing them”. In this sense, Information signs and interpretive tables have been installed at different crossroads of rural roads and at intersection points, avoiding the loss of people interested in accessing the cheese factories. The access signage from FV-413 stands out, at the height of Triquivijate; the FV-50, at the Los Alares roundabout; the FV-2, at the entrance to Los Alares through Efequén, y the FV-20, on the climb to Betancuria.

The first phase of signaling groups together the cheese factories that have all the appropriate administrative and health authorizations.. Abuelo Benigno Perdomo appears in Los Alares, La Solana block, The Taro and The Alares, that join those of Las Pocetas and El Pocillo. The city council foresees that the number of cheese factories will increase soon, which will allow the signaling project to be extended in a second phase, while the first performance will be improved.

The initiative is completed with the distribution of 8.000 triptychs in the tourist towns of Antigua. Edited in three languages, They offer detailed information about the route that can be taken in the municipality, as well as the quality, designation of origin and characteristics of majorero cheese.