Numerous dilapidated buildings recall the days when Saint-Exupéry and the chaps touched down here. The Casa Mar is abandoned but still standing, and can be easily reached at low tide. At the north end of the beach, a monument honours Saint-Exupéry’s memory: a dinky green Bréguet 14 biplane, the sort he used to fly. Nearby, the Spanish fort now houses military barracks, and behind the museum is the 1930s cinema ; in the same area, swashbucklers swapped anecdotes between flights at Bar des Pilotes . The wrecked Armas ferry Assalama , 2km south of town, put paid to the short-lived connection between Tarfaya and Fuerteventura when it went down in 2008.
