Casa-Museo León y Castillo
Casa-Museo León y Castillo was created in 1954 by the Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria as a public tribute to Fernando León y Castillo—1st Marquess of the Muni—and to his brother Juan León y Castillo, an engineer linked to the Puerto de La Luz project in Las Palmas. The museum occupies Fernando’s birth house, and it also includes the neighboring building where the poet and playwright Montiano Placeres Torón was born and lived. The two structures are organized around two central courtyards: galleries with balconies connect and distribute the different rooms, a layout that fits traditional Canarian architecture with a Mudejar influence. Inside, the collection preserves personal objects and a documentary-bibliographic archive, including rare editions, alongside a painting collection that traces the 16th through the 20th centuries. …
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