La Casa de los Balcones

Casa de los Balcones or Casa Fonseca is a house of La Orotava, on the island of Tenerife in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands, characterized by its balconies and interior carved wood patio. It was built in the year 1715 (there are some publications that mark the year 1632) and stands out, above all, for the carved tea balcony it has on its upper floor.

Precisely the balcony of the upper floor (it has three floors) is made of Canarian pine tea wood and is shown as a carved and run set, of great beauty.

On the second floor, on its facade, you can see five other individual balconies, these of iron, while on the first floor, two large windows on each side flank the access door, studded.

Inside it stands out its inner courtyard in two heights, which is surrounded by wooden columns topped in Corinthian capitals that support a very rich wooden balustrade and happily colored by its lush vegetation. Interestingly, to access the upper floor you have to do it through a spiral staircase made in Canarian pine tea, so traditional in local colonial architecture. The superior rooms are those that house the museum of the House of the Balconies.

The House of Balconies also has a center for teaching, promotion and dissemination of typical handicrafts so that they are not lost. It has its own store where these typical Canarian products are sold.

You can also visit the House of Eladia Machado, former workshop of jigsaw founded in 1932. The building stands out for its plateresque doorway with side columns, and its narrow upper balcony.