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The house has three floors with mezzanine: cover very repeated in La Laguna with hollowed out holes, family shield in the center that appears adorned with curving leaves and two finials at the ends; on the sides there are two windows of rejeria that correspond to the mezzanine. The upper windows are of the guillotine type, decorated with good bearings. This building is topped with the overlapping of a tile eave to a stone ledge.

On both sides of the door, in its internal part, there are two stone urinals attached to the wall. The patio is square, whose center is a stone fountain. The house presents a magnificent work in wood in all its plants, among which the drainage is zoom rich. The staircase presents a first section in stone, then continued in wood.

Currently this building is the headquarters of the Canary Islands Advisory Council.

The first member of the Monta s family to arrive in Tenerife is Juan Ram rez from the mountains of Toledo, married to Beatriz Garc a D niz, and settles in La Orotava in the first half of the 16th century.

Taking this as the first generation, the character that interests us for the building in question belongs to the seventh, of which the first two are linked to La Orotava, the next two (both in the female line) to San Juan de La Rambla, and the other two to Los Silos whose convent of Cistercian nuns (Bernardas) of San Sebasti n founded Sebasti n P rez Enr quez, husband of Luisa Francisca Monta s who held the line of succession in the fourth generation, and of which they were patrons. The last name Monta s does not appear until the third generation, and this in second place to pass already in the sixth to the first.

In 1985 the house was acquired by the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands to locate in it the headquarters of the Canary Islands Advisory Council, at that time the building was in a very poor state of conservation.

The rehabilitation works began in 1985, developed in phases. The first, referring to the previous area of the estate, began in 1985, ending with its inauguration on June 9, 1988, while the second corresponding to the rear of the property ended on March 17, 1994.

The importance of the building cataloged by its historical-artistic interest forced the introduction of any new element in some way forced by its new use, to be carefully weighed by the optional management, deserving special attention to enable its perfect integration in the set.