Thierry Bouët sends us his series on Finca Cortesin accompanied by this text:
A finca is a Spanish word for property. In fifteen years, Finca Cortesin,went from desert hills into urbanization, a Spanish term designating a town with hundreds of houses suddenly rising from the ground.
Finca Cortesin is located in Andalusia on the shores of the Mediterranean. As soon as the first stone was laid, hundreds of luxurious houses sprung up. I was there to document and monitor their construction and their environment. While waiting for the vegetation to grow, the first finished photos are a real-false model villa apartment. In the meantime, I discovered the swimming pools without water, the land changed into English grass, the rooms reinforced with concrete blocks, a gigantic skeleton being formed.
Today, a stay at a hotel or in a villa on the property means doing nothing as the service is so effective. The slightest whim even having a room set up on the beach is possible. Travel takes place in an electric car like in the most optimistic science fiction films. Between all these charming residential areas lies an eighteen-hole golf course, world-famous on the professional circuit. If you don’t want to swim in the hotel’s Olympic swimming pool or in your private pool, an electric shuttle takes you to the beach set up as a private club. You can take a final plunge into a freshwater pool before descending a few steps into the warm Mediterranean. Here people only hear news from outside on television screens built into rooms with remote-controlled curtains.
In Cortesin life is made to do nothing except take care of yourself, an ideal place to cultivate your garden in the best of all worlds.
Thierry Bouët
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