The Casa Regental

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Architecture · Subcategory: Civil architecture · Year: 1640

In 1527 the Real Audiencia de Canarias was founded in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The first request for building houses for the Regente was made in times of Felipe II, with work on these Rennaissance buildings finishing -the present day lower floor- in 1640. The other floor is attributed to Luján Pérez and dates from the first third of the 19th century. The building is known as the Casa Regental, occupies the front of a plot of land whose back garden slopes down to the Guiniguada ravine, today known as calle Juan de Quesada, and is rectangular in shape. Access is gained through a hallway which opens out onto an arcaded courtyard, with rooms located all around its perimetre and with a staircase on two flights in the dividing wall. The top floor has the same layout. Part of the lower section, which is made entirely out of quarry stone, is Rennaissance style, with a curved arch flanked by smooth shafted columns and capital. The upper section is Neoclassical, and is made up of four stone pilasters and shaft separating three recesses, also made of stone, with curved frontis along the sides and straight in the middle, where a balcony opens up with cast iron parapet. The façade to the rear has three arches and recesses regularly spaced apart on the upper floor, and opens onto the refurbished garden. 

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