The Casa Santa Gadea-Mansel

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

This dates from the first few decades of the 16th century. It belonged to the Santa Gadea and Mansel (or Marsel) families, and is an expression of the wealth generated by the sugar trade. It only preserves its splendid Gothic doorway, worked from yellow ashlar. Its door is framed by a remarkable alfiz, which leans onto corbels. Two Gothic ornamental strips cross it, on which curious-looking faces can be made out, as well as zoomorphic and plant motifs. Over the doorway, the main window displays a blazing Gothic decoration. WIth the 19th century former town hall building no longer standing, which had artistic windows of this genre, this represented the only example of blazing form to exist in Las Palmas and the rest of the Canary Islands. Celebrated tenor Alfredo Kraus Trujillo was born in this house in 1927. Midway through the 20th century, having been gutted and rebuilt from the inside, it was added to the Casa de Colón Museum.

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