Villa Winter
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Villa Winter is a villa located in the area around Cofete, Canary Islands, in front of the mountain range of Jandía and in the peninsula on the southwestern part of the island of Fuerteventura. The villa is modeled after a villa first built in 1893 in the Black Forest by an engineer Gustav Winter. The villa was first built in 1946 with two floors and a tower in the northwestern part of the villa, a balcony in the front and stone. In some travel guides, it is known as "summer home".
Gustav Winters worked since 1915 for Spain and was active in different projects in Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria.
Although it is said that the villa was renovated in 1985 and that the mysterious villa was probably built as a restaurant or a hotel it remains in the same state that it has for decades. The fact that it is built on the remotest part of the island with only a dust track leading to it and that the journey from the nearest towm Morro del jable takes about an hour in a four wheel drive vehicle, in reality negates this particular part of the story. The fact that all of the expansive roof space has been constructed with cell like accommodation in the eaves, allowing sleeping space for one or two persons per cell, indicates that it either housed many servants or more likely many troops. The perimeter area still shows signs of barbed wire protection and control points and the downstairs white tiled room spaces are reminicsent of hospital operating theaters. There is clear indication that below the currently lowest accessible levels that there are lower levels still. A small gauge rail track runs from near the house into the mountainside and a mining skip which ran on these rails can clearly be seen outside of the main building. A cemetery exists on the beach several hundred meters from the house. Locals tell us the Winter insisted that all burials from the town of Morro Jable, (more than a full days gruelling hike away) took place there. Recent interest in the cemetery have caused it to be walled off, but by whom I do not know The villa has given rise to many local myths and legends. It sits in grounds that are exactly the same shape and, proportionally, the same size as the island and its position within those grounds match exactly its real position on the island. A freak chance or a complex mathematical calculation by Winter?
Local legends include it being used as a base station for contacting aliens! But probably the most likely explanation for its isolated position and its santitised, hospital-like interior is that it was intended as a last bolt hole for Adolf Hitler and other top Nazis, a refuge to where they could escape and possibly undergo plastic surgery before being shipped to a new life with a new identity in the North or South Americas.
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