The conditioning works of the first hotel in La Victoria de Acentejo are already underway, but the mayor, Juan Antonio García Abreu (PSOE), tells EL DÍA that the initial budget will have to be doubled after “numerous shortcomings” were detected in the initial project, which was commissioned for 725,000 euros last May. The transformation of the house of Dean Calzadilla from the 18th century, which is located next to the hermitage in the San Juan neighborhood, into an emblematic hotel will be a key project for the next term, in which “some 700,000 more euros” will have to be invested to to be able to inaugurate this new emblematic hotel.
In the 2023 budget there will be an initial item of 115,000 euros to continue with the work, although it will be necessary to have the support of other administrations. Juan Antonio García points out that “the project has some shortcomings that have forced us to plan a second phase. The first is already underway, thanks to a grant of 400,000 euros from the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands and a contribution of about 300,000 euros from the City of La Victoria itself.
«We understand that the second phase will cost around 700,000 euros, so we need to get the Government of Canary Islands support us with another contribution of almost 600,000 euros, which would allow us to finish the project of our first hotel”, advances García Abreu.
The Northern Consistory is already working on modifying the project, in order to incorporate this second phase and the socialist president is confident that in the next term “this commitment to Canarian architecture, historical and cultural heritage, and tourism development” can become a reality. of La Victoria de Acentejo».
500 square meters
The House of Dean Calzadilla was the family residence of Nicolás de Calzadilla, born in La Victoria de Acentejo and dean of the Santa Iglesia Catedral de Canarias. It is a 500 square meter building divided into two floors with a central corridor that houses rooms on both sides. Likewise, the property has ethnographic elements of interest and outdoor spaces such as patios, gardens, roof terraces, a cistern and a threshing floor, among others, which together have a surface area of more than 1,100 square meters.
Eleven housing units
The planned intervention in the Casa del Deán Calzadilla, which will have 11 accommodation units, is committed to «respecting the volume of the building without introducing extensions; eliminate the most recent reforms and those works that distort the original work, as well as restore all the wooden elements that are in an acceptable state.
The Casa del Deán Calzadilla project “fits into the emblematic hotel typology, provided for in article 2 of Decree 142/2010, of October 4, which approves the Regulation of Tourist Accommodation Activity”, underlines the Victorian government. This standard defines this type of tourist accommodation as “the hotel establishment that is located on consolidated non-tourist urban land and whose building constitutes an immovable property that is part of the historical heritage of the Autonomous Community”.
