This property was built in the seventeenth century by Fernando del Castillo y Cabeza de Vaca, on the site where the Bishop of the Canary Islands, Bernardo de Vicuña y Zuazo, died in 1705. It later passed into the hands of the achado family, becoming the birthplace of Felipe Machado y Benítez de Lugo (1836-1930), a prominent alfombrista (floral carpet maker) and painter. The building stands out because of the orderly symmetry of its façade, with notable woodwork features and grillwork on the balconies. In the hallway is a gallery that links the rooms of the mezzanine, decorated in the Mudejar tradition. But if there is one remarkable feature that characterises this property, it is the gardens, cited in works written by scientists and naturalists Philip Barker Webb, Jules Leclercq and Sabin Berthelot in the nineteenth century.
