The Lercaro mansion in La Laguna, Tenerife, built by order of Fernando de Lercaro in 1593, is an extraordinary Genoese inspired palace with Mannerist elements, which over the years has absorbed and incorporated a number of houses and adjacent buildings.
The historic Tenerife mansion known as "Sitio Litre" was erected in the 1730s by Mr. John Paisley a Scottish merchant who used to trade in Canary wine. In 1774, John Little, nephew of the former, inherited the estate. As so often happened in the Canary Islands, an English word, in this case a surname, was Canarized transforming the "Little" in to "Litre" and so remained for posterity, as the “Litre Site”.
La Hacienda San Nicolás is a distinguished Tenerife seventeenth century mansion, historically linked to the Valcárcel family, as can be seen by viewing the coat of arms in the estate chapel.
The Hodgson House is one of those splendid Tenerife mansions built in the early twentieth century by the gentry of the island along the Rambla de Santa Cruz, in the area of the second bourgeois enlargement of the city. Specifically it arises from the commission made by Mr. Ricardo Hodgson in 1925 to the by then new in town but promising Tenerife born architect, Mr. Domingo Pisaca Burgada and which culminated in 1928 with the completion of this beautiful and historic Tenerife property.
Located on the outskirts of San Pedro de Daute, the first town to be established in the “Isla Baja” in the northwest of Tenerife, the Estate of the Marquis of la Quinta Roja is, obviously, one of the best historic mansions of Tenerife. An architectural gem nestled in a tropical paradise.
Commissioned by the Quintero García family and designed in 1905 by the renowned architect from Valladolid, Mariano de Estanga, this villa is situated at 15 Jesús y María Street, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
There are in Tenerife various historic properties that belonged once to the most powerful family in the island during the XVIII Century, the Carta Family. The Carta Estate in Valle Guerra, rather than a mansion, is a splendid historic farm or a rural manor house, undoubtedly, one of the most important examples of historic rural property in Tenerife.
Located in the popular square of Los Patos in the late nineteenth century expansion area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, this spectacular Tenerife mansion was designed in 1912 by the influential architect, Mariano de Estanga.
The history of this great Tenerife mansion is diluted over time, although we know for certain that the priest of Italian origin D. Luis Rizo Grimaldi, built the chapel under the invocation of Saint Phillip in 1665, linking it to an entailed preexisting estate and mansion, located in the outskirts of the town of la Orotava towards the coast.
It is most surprising to find in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in what were once banana plantations on the outskirts of the city, a historic property, built in neo-Arabic style, in what could be the stage of a fairy Arabian Nights tale.