PALACIO DE NAVA

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Communicating the exterior with the interior of the building, and located in its central axis, there is the zagu no casapuerta, rectangular and located next to the main door to which a fence that gives access to the main courtyard faces. Its main function was the passage of people and carriages. Due to its height, it divides the mezzanine plant longitudinally into two bodies.

The courtyard constitutes the nucleus around which the low and high dependencies are distributed, providing light and ventilation to them. It is located in the second creak of the house and the access door is located in the center of the facade. It has a quadrangular floor plan and is surrounded by seven stone columns supported on a pedestal, forming between them and the walls of the rooms on the ground floor, four corridors, one on each side of the courtyard.

Around the patio are the low rooms used for warehouses, offices, warehouses and warehouses. The ventilation of these rooms was carried out, apart from the access door and window that overlooked the courtyard, through small flared windows that communicate with the outside, and their location within the rooms was almost attached to the ceiling of these.

In a second body, destined to service room and servitude, the garages and stables were located, with access to them from the outside by their side façade, and from the inside, and the back garden, intended for fruit trees and also used Like an orchard

The mezzanine floor is accessed by internal stairs ...

The exceptional cover of the building is dated in the 16th century. On the ground floor, the entrance door corresponds to 1585, it is adintelada and it contains the Grim n shield carved in stone. On both sides it presents paired columns, present in the Spanish Renaissance.

On the first floor stand out the balconies of rejer a of the master stonecutter Juan Ben tez, made in 1590; The exterior of the doors and windows was transformed to adapt it to the neoclassical taste in the last reform of the facade in the 18th century. The central opening maintains the symmetry, respecting the width of the ground floor. Striking are the stone gargoyles between the windows, two with a Plateresque tradition and two figured with a purely decorative function.

The central finish of the facade in the third body, is entirely baroque, made in 1688 by Andr s Rodr guez Bello, and reminds us of the Ticos with which the altarpieces of the churches were finished off.

In the center is the shield of the Marquises of Villanueva del Prado in stone; on the sides paired salomonic columns, exceptional in the Canarian domestic architecture, which follow the structure of the lower bodies of Renaissance air.

Jorge Grim n known by the nickname of borgo n for being born in Flanders, founded the Grim n House in the Canary Islands. Presents in 1506, his information of nobility . In addition to his services in the Conquest of Granada, he participates in the island of Tenerife, together with Alonso Fern ndez de Lugo, against the Guanches raised in Abona and Icode, and contributes to the campaign a ship, 50 men, muskets and p lvora His statement by Hidalgu reports among other benefits and prestige the tax exemption, the right to the maximum penalty for decapitation and not by hanging; a special legal status and to be buried, and his family, in the Chapel of San Jorge, which he has built and gifted in the church of San Agustin de La Laguna. His will, granted in 1542, is opened in 1545, date that indicates approximately his death.

The shield that represents its lineage is located in the center of the lintel of the main door of the building since 1590. Its weapons, carved in stone, are represented by a head between flames and two triangles with birds. Its installation was due to a license granted by the Cabildo, a practice that prevented people without rights from wearing a privilege of the nobility.

Alonso V zquez de Nava, a native of Jerez de los Caballeros, settled in Tenerife in 1525. He presented his information of nobility in 1537 and married in La Laguna in 1532, with Beatriz de la Guerra, owner of the Valley of war.

They founded mayorazgo de las tierra y vi ace de Valle de Guerra in 1539, and were the first lords of the Nava House in Tenerife, establishing surnames and weapons.

His son, lvaro V zquez de Nava, continue the succession, being Perpetual Regidor of Tenerife in 1560. His first cousin Alonso V zquez de Nava, third holder of Nava's leadership, was born in La Laguna in 1570, and married in 1600 with Antonia Grim ny Hemerando, heiress of the grim n house due to the death of her brother Claudio Grim ny and the rest of the men in her family. With this marriage alliance, both mayorazgos are unified.

His son and heir Tom s de Nava and Grim n, for the sake of nobility, asks for a title of nobility and, in Royal Decree of 1666, Carlos II grants him that of Marqu s de Villanueva del Prado, the first title of Castile granted in Canary Islands. The emblem, which represents the marquisate, is located in the third body of the façade, where the weapons of the two families and the crown of the title of Castile appear. This concession helped by being patrons of the Order of St. Augustine. This relationship with the church led to linking the expenses of the employer and the private chapel to mayorazgo, and in return they had the right to separate burial in it. Another aid for the concession of the title was the acquisition of the lord of the Village ...

MUNICIPALITY San Crist bal de La Laguna

ZONE District1- Historic Center

ADDRESS N Nava y Grim Street, 1