Exploring one of the loveliest houses in the city, the Cόlogan family, built in 1883, is now one of the most delightful hotels in Tenerife. It is a first-class hotel, a three-floor family house of domestic Canarian style from the 18th century, in the Quintana street, with two closed glass-windowed balconies facing the main street. From the original central patio of the main house starts a lovely dark wooden stairway which leads to the corridors surrounding the patio, and there can be found all of the bedrooms distributed around a beautiful central passageway.
The house had was constructed by Bernardo Valois, a rich Irish merchant who settled in Puerto de la Cruz, for whom Juan Cόlogan Blanco, also an Irish man, was working at the time. The matrimony of Juan with Margarita, daughter of Nicolás Bernardo Valois, supposed his participation in the familiar patrimony. The hotel was a homelike museum where the belongings and furniture of the family were preserved. Alexander von Humboldt (1799) stayed here when it was still a home for the Cόlogan family. In 1887 the Company of Hotels and Sanitarium of the Valley of Orotava rented the hotel from the family, changing the name after the death of Tomás Fidel Cόlogan, the proprietor, to Hotel Marquesa, a name that it still holds nowadays. Among the many distinguished guests stands out the musician Charles Camile Saint-Saëns.
At present time, this lovely house shelters one of the most emblematic hotels of the city, being a distinguished symbol of historic accommodation in Puerto de la Cruz. The aristocratic luster of the past is still well
preserved in its interior.
preserved in its interior.