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The original house was built by the Ben\u00edtez de Lugo family, marquises of La Florida, who were descendants of one of the first conquerors of Tenerife.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">After the conquest in the 16th century, the Spanish Crown gave the outposts of La Orotava to the conquerors and conquest investors. This house was one of those built by this first wave of settlers. They came to inhabit La Orotava with the natives, who formed part of their domestic staff and labour force for land cultivation under slavery until the mid-16th century.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">If you continue down to number 17 on this street, you\u2019ll see another example of one of the town\u2019s first houses, the Ben\u00edtez de Lugo house, which was built in the 16th century. 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His firm belief in the existence of spirits led him to promote a legislative proposal for the official teaching of spiritualism in Spain. This law, which never came to light, included a syllabus with subjects such as magnetism, lucid sleepwalking, spontaneous phenomena, and communication systems with the invisible world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">The next stop isn\u2019t far away. Continue up this street until you find a magnolia tree on the path to the right. Take your camera on this part of the tour while you discover places like the Ben\u00edtez de las Cuevas House, at number 26, which was built in the 17th century and is recognisable from the wooden cross on the side of its fa\u00e7ade. Further up, on your left, the Callej\u00f3n de Rodapalla is another of those charming places that attracts the attention of visitors. 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