+34 922 10 80 80

HISTORY

LA LAGUNA GRAN HOTEL

In this hotel we have tried to highlight the mark that history has left on it. There was a time when the grain mills in this town turned with the power of the streams from the nearby Anaga mountains. They ground the grain that gave the original name to La Calle del Agua, next to the Plaza del Adelantado, opposite the Palacio de Nava y Grimón where you are probably standing now. In this building that gave the street its second name, the enlightened gatherings of Nava, who called themselves "Los Caballeritos" (The Little Knights), met (half in secret) to contrast the political diary of an island still half governed with the ideals of Rousseau and Voltaire, outlawed by the Holy Office. The master of this house, D. Fernando de la Guerra y del Hoyo Solórzano, together with José De Viera y Clavijo and other illustrious men of his time, debated the destiny of their history and of history as they constructed it from their positions of privilege. In this hotel we have tried to highlight the mark that history has left on it. There was a time when the grain mills in this town turned with the power of the streams from the nearby Anaga mountains. They ground the grain that gave the original name to La Calle del Agua, next to the Plaza del Adelantado, opposite the Palacio de Nava y Grimón where you are probably standing now. In this building that gave the street its second name, the enlightened gatherings of Nava, who called themselves "Los Caballeritos" (The Little Knights), met (half in secret) to contrast the political diary of an island still half governed with the ideals of Rousseau and Voltaire, outlawed by the Holy Office. The master of this house, D. Fernando de la Guerra y del Hoyo Solórzano, together with José De Viera y Clavijo and other illustrious men of his time, debated the destiny of their history and of history as they constructed it from their positions of privilege.

Later, this house was a teacher training college and tobacco factory until it became a hotel today. One of the most genuine traits of Canarian identity, the fact that they were emigrants or the children of emigrants to America from the smaller islands of La Palma and El Hierro, unite the path of the last three owners of the building. When transport was the wind, the Canarians crossed the ocean with the trade winds instead of looking for a future in the European capitals.