| In 1975 the founder of Mar y Sol, Hans-Joachim Fischer, travelled
to Tenerife with his wife who suffered from Multiple Sclerosis and
who has since sadly died. This trip was taken following the advice
of the neurologists who were treating Mrs. Fischer in the University
Clinic Tübingen in Germany.
In view of the success of the trip Mr. Fischer and his severely handicapped wife started visiting every year and stayed for several weeks at a time in the, as then was, small fishermans’ village of Los Cristianos, located in the southwest of the island. Motivated by the positive effects of the weather on his wife, and after talking to many other people in the same situation who repeatedly came back to this area of Tenerife, he joined together with 7 investors in November 1983 and founded the Mar y Sol-parent company After having bought an adequate plot of land of aproximately 11.000 m2, the planning and construction of a hotel with 240 apartments and studios began in 1986. The main area of the project was almost completed in 1990 and the hotel started operating this year. Tragically Mr. Fischer’s wife died in november 1991 after having been guest at Mar y Sol only once. Mr. Fischer founded Kurhotel Mar y Sol S.L. in 1995, the actual hotel company. In December 1997 Mr. Fischer married Elli Baum-Fischer, who is the director of the Therapy Center Teralava. Mar y Sol was the first hotel in Europe, if not the world, that it is fully wheelchair accessible and that meets all the requirements of even the most severely handicapped guests. All Studios and apartments that belong to the hotel are accessible. |
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