The Governing Council has approved this Monday, April 1, the decree by which the building, located at No. 35 of Arrecife de Lanzarote, (Tamaragua) becomes part of the catalog of assets of cultural interest in the Canary Islands, holding the category of Monument.
The property, known as Tamaragua, is one of the last of these types of homes that are currently preserved. It is located in an irregular block at the end of León y Castillo street. In this area was located the set of so-called "high houses of Arrecife".
It is a building from the early nineteenth century in the traditional style of the wealthy class. As notable elements should be mentioned its typology in "O" with central courtyard, the composition of the facade, the decorative elements (currently hidden) and the backyard, being an example of the urban bourgeois architecture of Arrecife.
Arrecife enters the nineteenth century as a town with increasing weight in the island framework and witnessing an important economic activity linked to its port. In this context of the late second half of the nineteenth century and until the early twentieth century in the new capital will be raised a whole set of buildings to shelter the new families that settle in it. These are people from the countryside attracted by the growing port activity and also notable families which will raise their residences that will stand out in the urban fabric.
The latter will normally respond to two-story buildings with a large volumetric development, high-quality wood carpentry, open interior courtyards on which a series of dependencies communicated by covered corridors pivot. The building located on León y Castillo street No. 35 is one of the last examples of this type of housing that are currently preserved.
