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.
It is documented that this historic Tenerife mansion was built in 1747 by a former Sergeant Major of Cavalry, D. Francisco Gabriel Montañés del Castillo and Machado, for the very respectable amount of 8,000 ounces of Castilian silver, the mythical pieces of eight, equal to 64.000 reales or about 198 kg of pure silver.
La Hacienda de la Fuente del Cuervo (The Crow Spring Estate), located just one kilometre away from the town of Buenavista del Norte, on the north-western tip of the island of Tenerife, is considered one of the most historic mansions of the island.
The Tenerife mansion known as Mafiotte, is an urban villa of Tenerife, located 8 Jesus y María Street, on the capital of the island. Commissioned by Juan Rodríguez López, it was designed by the municipal architect, who was from the Andalusian town of Motril, and whose name was Mr. Antonio Pintor.
Known as Finca la Palmita, it was built in 1889 by Mr. Antonio María Casañas González, who was an illustrious lawyer and mayor of the town of la Orotava after 1894. Mr. Casañas, became famous for the sake of registering Mount Teide and most of the surrounding National Park land, as part of the council of la Orotava, hence transforming La Orotava in the largest municipality of the island of Tenerife.
Perhaps of all Tenerife mansions, this is the one that I like most, or at least the one that matches better with my concept of an ideal mansion, for its original location, scale, some of its details and its distribution.
The Palace de Nava and Grimón is one of the most flamboyant mansions of Tenerife. It is a baroque city palace, although it has Mannerist and Neoclassical traces. It is located in the Adelantado Square of the UNESCO World Heritage city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
La Hacienda de San Juan de Taco, in the municipality of Buenavista, in the northwest of the island of Tenerife, is considered to be one of the finest examples of traditional Canarian architecture in rural areas. This is a fantastic mansion, a farm or ranch, which certainly has its roots in the sixteenth century, and is documented from 1654. People claim that this is the third oldest manor house in the Canaries.
In Tenerife and in general in the Canary Islands, a land which predominantly consists on stony volcanic lavas with no agricultural soil is known as as malpaís, literally badland. It is a local word, that has its origin in the French "mauvais pays" which is part of the description that Normand soldiers at the service of Castile did of areas of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura in Le Canarien in early XVth Century.
OurTenerife | April 3, 2016 
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