A Hotel with History

La Casa de los Naranjos, as it is popularly known because of the 30 orange trees that adorn the front of the house, is a 200-year-old manor-style property that has always belonged to the same family until the new owner acquired it to create a hotel project.

The building, listed as monumental in the Heritage Register of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, was in a state of semi-ruin, with fallen wooden ceilings, thick stone walls cracked or collapsed, and extensive wooden carpentry badly affected by woodworm.

The building is listed as monumental in the Heritage Register of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.

About Us

It was on a family vacation trip to Lanzarote when the current owners discovered the abandoned house and instantly fell in love with it. Despite the deterioration, the charm of the building was evident and it was not yet damaged enough to be unable to recover the splendor of another era and the magic and charm of its architecture.

The purchase took place only ten days later and it was thus that this civil engineer from Zamora, a civil engineer and manager in Madrid of a multinational construction and services company, turned his life around and decided to create a hotel.

The family was in charge of the renovation first hand and tried to achieve a mixture of romanticism, decadence, luxury and organic design, seeking to fit in with the monumentality and antiquity of a stately home located in a rural setting.

Rehabilitation

The rehabilitation was divided into two projects, one of urgent action to consolidate the structure of the building and prevent it from falling into total ruin, which consisted of the intervention on the stone walls and wooden ceilings, as well as the sealing of the building envelope, and a second project to adapt the building to be used as a hotel. Wood, stone and lime are the original materials with which the house was originally built and with which the rehabilitation has been carried out, using techniques that respect the textures and characteristics of the constructions of yesteryear, thus maintaining the authenticity of the building. In this sense, most of the woodwork and wooden floors have been preserved and a great variety of colors that the house had in its origins have been discovered and restored.

As a result of this process, the hotel has the official qualification of the Government of the Canary Islands as "Hotel Emblemático".

The Outcome

In this second project, special care has been taken to maintain the original elements, respecting spaces, uses, structures, shapes, materials, colours, etc., so that the original charm of the house is preserved, while at the same time seeking to achieve a product of style and quality. As a result of this process, the hotel has the official qualification of the Government of the Canary Islands as an "Emblematic Hotel".