The English House La Oliva Update

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From Canarias 7

http://www.canarias7.es/articulo.cfm?id=457704

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A not very good translation by Google:

The City of La Oliva wants to put a stop to the decline of the Casa del Inglés.  The request of the nationalist group counted on the support of all the political forces that demand works of conservation of a mansion whose purchase has managed for years the Insular Cabildo.

A couple more winters and Casa del Inglés, in La Oliva, will be reduced to a pile of stones, with history but only just a few stones.  In the face of decadence and the initiative of the nationalist group, the City Council of La Oliva claims works of conservation of this exponent of the architecture of the rural and commercial bourgeoisie of the XVIII: first, the property and, if not, the Corporación del Norte is committed to putting its hand to ensure at least its structure in collaboration with the Cabildo of Fuerteventura.

The latest news on the future of Casa del Inglés dates back to 2015, when the first major institution reserved 400,000 euros of its budget for its acquisition, although the negotiation never came to fruition due to the impossibility of agreement with the property.  In any case, Mayor Pedro Amador anticipates that, as agreed by the full of La Oliva, the City Council will proceed to ensure the structure of the building because "its current ruinous state represents a clear security problem."

Orchilla merchant.  Ten years before the purchase that never settled, Casa del Inglés was declared a Cultural Interest (BIC) in 2005, although catalogs are not lived and much less resist walls that in the 18th century built Julián Leal Sicilia (Los Llanos Of Aridane, 1730-La Oliva, 1822).  This palm trader, among other tasks, administered the orchillas in Fuerteventura between 1788 and 1790, according to José Concepción Rodríguez, and raised this house divided into two floors that is distributed around a courtyard with cistern.

This professor of Art History at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria published a study on the Casa del Inglés in 2009 which concludes by stating that "whatever the question of building ownership today, it is undoubtedly that housing Needs an immediate action, because it is about to perish by complex, before the blush of own and strangers ».

On the English citizen who gave the name to the house, John Parkinson, Professor José Concepción recognizes that little is known except that, born in London, died in 1868 at 75 years.  The one known in major land as Don Juan Parkinson was engaged in trade in grains and was a naturalist.

After the Civil War was occupied by the Army, staying in it for several years the troops of infantry in one part and in the other a service of infirmary of the military forces located at that time in La Oliva.  Although, his worst enemies were always the rains and the abandonment.