HOTEL HACIENDA DE ABAJO

-Located in the historic heart of the town of Tazacorte on the island of San Miguel de La Palma - the most important agricultural area of the Canary Islands. The Hotel Hacienda de Abajo is the result of a careful and loving rehabilitation of an old sugar plantations estate of the 17th century. Hacienda de Abajo is the first hotel built in the town and its singularity has been recognized officially through their classification as the first Emblematic hotel in the Canary Islands a category that only exists in the islands marking the finest historic buildings. -Set between lush and rich vegetation on top of a wild coast overlooking an ocean of pure and intensely blue waters and a warm and sunny climate with lavishly starry nights arises a set of buildings that were the center of rich trade with Flanders - Andalusia and the West Indies and that today with its valuable collections of artistic and splendid garden of botanical rarities offers an enthusiastic welcome to the traveler. -Hotel Hacienda de Abajo raises inside a walled enclosure of four buildings distributed around an interior garden where formerly the orchard of the estate was located. The old Casa Principal de Tazacorte was subjected to an attentive restoration from 2010 to 2012. This two floors rectangular house includes two roofs of arabic tiles and an exceptional stove for drying cochineal and as well as the other stately homes of the old hacienda presents a balcony-corridor open to the West while from the opposite facade the garden of the farm could be contemplated. A body of two floors with balconies and two towers were added to it which with magnificent view of the sea and crops. We can highlight the estately and almost militar character of these ancient residences where as the traditional canarian architecture goes new needs are satisfied by adding to the primitive construction usually arranged in linear successive bodies making such edifications L or U-shaped...