CASA DEL CURA VIEJO

In the 16th century, the main families of landowners were already settled in the territory of Arafo, as is the case of the N ez family. Being the main exponent of this family Juan N ez, who at the end of the conquest of this island, requests in advance a date of land with water from the spring, increased on November 20, 1517 by a new cast. A few years later, her cousin Catalina N ez married Trist n B ez, a native of the term Ampurias (Gerona) with whom she had a total of eight children, forming one of the most powerful marriages in the valley.

The N ez family, which owns a large amount of land, probably erected this building as part of a large farm complex. In this house the Nu ez were able to house Priests and occasionally the Bishops, who in pastoral visits tour the regions of the island. There are several sources that link this building as accommodation for Bishop Juan Manuel Dila, in 1739, as well as for the Prelate Davira, who created the parish of Arafo in 1795, designating Don Antonio Jos Pedro as parish priest Rodr Guez de Torres, born in G Mar on February 4, 1769 and died in Arafo on December 29, 1855, who was known as 'el Cura Viejo ' who lends his nickname to this house in which I live .

The building became part of the heritage of Don Germ n Fari a and Carmen Batista. Passing in the first quarter of the twentieth century to Don Manuel Herrera Hern ndez, counselor of the island council for the liberal party in 1916 and fame ...