Built between 1624 and 1631 by Don Diego de Alvarado Bracamonte, Captain General of the island of Tenerife, this great manor house is one of the greatest exponents of palace architecture of seventeenth century La Laguna.
Each of the large mansions and luxury villas in Tenerife constitute a today witness of certain historical period, and each and every one of them contains a singular history, a passion. Villa Clara is the fruit of the passion of its first owner and promoter, D. Bernardo de la Rosa, for the great southern mansions of the United States of America.
During most of the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century in most of Central Europe it was easy to observe how many mansions were built by their owners just aside their factories. This relatively popular trend has very few examples in Spain and almost none in the island of Tenerife, but in fact the great mansion adjacent to the factory or the family business, something like a mansion-factory is a typical product of the industrial revolution.
“Las Casas del Camino Real de Fasnia” are an ancient rural estate built in the seventeenth century, which is seated at the foot of what was once the main route of communication for the people of the south of the island: the old stone paved Royal Route “Camino Real de Piedra”.
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.
OurTenerife | December 2, 2016 
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