Quinta de los Ruiz

Abandoned Quinta de los Ruiz in Tenerife

Take a 360-degree look around the abandoned mansion, Quinta de los Ruiz that is located on the Canary Island of the coast of Africa with this amazing virtual tour created with an iPhone 12 Pro by master photographer Javi Baranano. Do you like urban exploring? Here is a map with tons of GPS locations for you to get out and explore.

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About the abandoned property

Tenerife is one of the small islands that form a chain off the coast of Africa known as the Canary Islands in English. Spanish territory for centuries, it was the homeland of the old, minor princely Benitez de Lugo family. Luis Fransisco Benitez de Lugo became the VIII Marquis of Florida and X Lord of Algarrobo and Bormujos at a young age after the untimely death of his father. He was only 22 when he went to the University of Madrid to study law and letters.

Throughout the 1860s he became intensely involved in republican politics through the Progressive Party. He became a freemason in 1871 and lead the growth of spiritism in Spain. De Lugo was known as a firebrand orator and was a well-known radical deputy in the Cortes. He even rose to the all-important position of president of the budget commission.

This posting allowed him to battle budgets proposed by the Finance Ministry. The prospects of the Republic seemed bright until it was brought to an abrupt end by a coup to restore the monarchy on December 29, 1874. He returned to the Canary Islands where he married, a marriage which bore no children although he had an illegitimate son.

It was now that Benitez de Lugo occupied the old family estate on Tenerife. Known as Quinta de los Ruiz, it was in the de Lugo family for over three centuries until it was purchased by the government of the department of Tenerife in which it is located. Sadly, the condition of this once pristine Spanish estate is well past its former glory days.

Now mired in spray paint and with walls pocked with holes, it is clear that the government of Tenerife hopes to restore this piece of national history to some degree in order to encourage more tourism.

6K 360VR video of the abandoned mansion.
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