[responsivevoice_button voice=”Spanish Female” buttontext=”Click to listen”] House of the Capitanes Generales Casa de los Capitanes It is an exceptional building from which the social category of its former inhabitants can be inferred, and which contemporary reforms and extensions have not detracted from, making it one of the clearest examples of the domestic architecture of the … Read more
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Spanish Female” buttontext=”Click to listen”] Town Hall Historical site where the first government building of the Island of Tenerife, the Cabildo, was erected. Nowadays, a building is erected that has seen its original structure changed, and where the most striking thing is its façade. The old balcony from which the proclamations and announcements were … Read more
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Spanish Female” buttontext=”Click to listen”] Corregidor´s House The House of the Corregidor was finished in 1545, by the Corregidor of the island of Tenerife Jerónimo Álvarez de Sotomayor. The building owes its name to the fact that it served as the residence of the Corregidor during his period of government. These were the maximum … Read more
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Spanish Female” buttontext=”Click to listen”] Alhóndiga´s house Principal facade The alhóndiga is the place where the poorer neighbours were supplied, lending them wheat when they could not buy it, or selling them kneaded bread at a price below the market in times of hardship. It also provided wheat for seed to the farmers, both … Read more
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Spanish Female” buttontext=”Click to listen”] Old School of Las Dominicas In the old Calle de la Cárcel, now Calle Consistorio, was the Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima. The school was for girls and had 500 students who studied up to high school. Although it is a building constructed in previous centuries, the facade … Read more