CASA ALVARADO BRACAMONTE

According to Pedro Tarquis, the house was manufactured by the alarming Manuel Penedo El Viejo. This art fice works in the first half of the 17th century in La Laguna. It was of Portuguese origin and was the most prolific alarife of those who lived in the first half of the seventeenth century in Tenerife. Its production is located apart from La Laguna, throughout the north of the island, specifically in La Victoria de Acentejo, Santa Ursula, Realejo Alto and Puerto de Garachico.

The House of the General Captains is a clear exponent of the 17th-century Canarian domestic architecture. The exterior of the building is shown with a large canvas where the windows, framed in red canter, are distributed asymmetrically. The cover, also with a red tuff, has two bodies: the lower one, with the access door framed between padded pilasters; and the upper one, with a balcony supported by nulls topped by a split front with a central ball. The decoration with denticles is distributed at the base of the balcony, as well as on the sides of the front n. Interesting decorative motif is the sculpted, exposed, which resembles a balcony with balusters.

The interior of the house is articulated around a U-shaped patio with an access staircase, half of stone, half of wood, which introduces us to the noble part of it.

The asymmetrical distribution of the windows on the facade is a constructive aspect that, perhaps, speaks to us more about satisfying the building

SOURCES

City Hall of San Crist bal de La Laguna (Councilor for Delegate of Tourism and Dissemination of Historical Heritage)

Management Office of the Historic Complex of La Laguna. History area.

Foundation International Center for the Conservation of Heritage CICOP.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GERM N DE ARMAS, Adri n: Guide of La Laguna, Cabildo de Tenerife, 2002

SORIANO Y BENITEZ DE LUGO, Alfonso: Laguneras Houses and Families. The Lineages and Palaces of Nava-Grim and Salazar de Fr as.

C. MARQUES AND A.MARTIN: Architecture of La Laguna (Network of Historic Centers of the Canary Islands)

The original configuration was of three cracks forming a U with the main one towards Carrera street (north), another of great longitudinal development that articulated square with the previous one and that follows the alignment of the current street of Viana (to the west) and a third much shorter than the previous ones to the east.

During the first decades of the 20th century, a building was built in 'L ' with a flat roof, discordant with the rest of the building that closed the patio in the south.

Finally, towards the year 2000, on the occasion of the restoration of the house, this body was demolished without significant value by building another one in its place that also closes the plant and tries to blend in with the pre-existing building.

Prior to the restoration of the year 2000, on the ground floor there were three walls of considerable thickness, which cut off isolated rooms, and which had no continuation on the upper floor. In this there is a partition wall that did not start from any of these walls, resting on one of the beams of greater section reinforced by an estuary. The floors did not have pavement. Irregular beams and without roughing constitute the seat of an unstable deck, which extends to the entire upper floor.

After the aforementioned restoration, part of this envigado was preserved, now without a board and bordered by narrow wooden corridors protected by a metal railing, and some steps were opened between the dividing walls of the rooms on the ground floor.

LOS ALVARADO BRACAMONTE

(Monograph to Casa Alvarado-Bracamonte and of the General Captains) .Excmo. City Hall of San Crist bal de La Laguna (2006)

In the first decades of the seventeenth century, from the peninsular lands, the royal official, Diego de Alvarado.Bracamonte , settled in Tenerife and La Palma, with the appointment of the monarch to work as Governor, Corregidor and War Captain of both Islands .

Third in name, it came from a family of lineage, Alvarado u2013Se ores del Solar and Torre de Boscariz in Secadura, jurisdictional party of Laredo (Santander) - and Juana Bracamonte, daughter of Rub n de Bracamonte Marshal of France. While he was taking the military-political position in 1624, to establish his residence in the city of San Crist bal de La Laguna, because the Island Council was located here, until his death on August 22, 1635.

As soon as he arrives in Tenerife, he marries Maria de Vergara and Grim n, descendant of Jorge Grim n, conqueror of Tenerife. Among the dowry that this brought to the marriage were some lots belonging to the family heritage of the Mayorazgo de la Gorborana (or Gorvorana), and that the firstborn of the family had inherited and ceded it. On these plots, located in a main place within the city and very close to the buildings of the old Town Hall of the Island, the construction of a property that today is recognized with the Governor's last name and his lineage, Alvarado Bracamonte , will begin .

MUNICIPALITY San Crist bal de La Laguna

ZONE District1- Historic Center

ADDRESS Calle Obispo Rey Redondo, 5