Antigua’s 37th island craft fair closed on Fuerteventura on Sunday with police estimating around 25,000 visitors over the weekend and organizers calling the event a full success. The XXXVII Feria Insular de Artesanía ran on 10 and 11 May 2026, filled the town with steady crowds and passed without a single incident.
For the municipality of Antigua and the Fundación Colectivo Mafasca, the numbers were reason enough to celebrate. Jonathan Peña said sales exceeded expectations for more than 90 percent of the roughly 200 artisans who took part from across the Canary Islands, while Margarita de Vera described a constant flow of visitors throughout the weekend.
De Vera said most of those who came were from Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, joined by numerous tourists already staying on Fuerteventura. She said the good weather helped keep the fair busy, and all concerts and music events were fully attended. The result was not just strong footfall but a market atmosphere that kept moving from opening to close.
The fair matters because it has become, after FEAGA, one of the most important economic events on Fuerteventura, bringing together artisans from across the islands and drawing shoppers as well as visitors. That scale also made the security operation unusually broad: civil protection teams from Antigua and Betancuria, emergency services, the Guardia Civil and the municipal police of Antigua all took part.
The mayor of Antigua praised the municipal police, saying they coordinated the entire security and prevention operation under deputy police chief Domingo Fránquiz. That planning was backed by a clean record over the weekend, leaving the island with a fair that delivered the crowds, the sales and the calm its organizers were hoping for.
