Finca Las Longueras

A manor house at the head of the valley

Las Longueras is the house of the estate that the Manrique de Lara family held in the Agaete Valley from the 17th century. In the mid-19th century, Francisco Manrique de Lara modernised its 173 hectares, and the current building, red with white balconies, began to be built in 1895 to a design by the Catalan Laureano Arroyo Velasco. His grandson finished the chapel, with a neo-Gothic altarpiece dedicated to the Virgen de los Dolores. Inside there is Anglo-Canarian furniture and paintings by Canarian artists such as César Manrique, Pepe Dámaso and Manolo Ruiz.

The rooms

Every one is different, decorated with its own fabrics and colours. There are doubles with garden views, from €124 a night and for up to three people; a single with views of the valley and the sea, from €89; two large suites for families, for up to four people in two separate spaces, from €133; and two junior suites 70 metres from the main house, from €147. They have air conditioning and free wifi.

The estate

What you enjoy here is the garden: collections of cacti and Canarian flora, a long pergola walk of vines, fruit trees, poinsettias, heliconias and orange groves among acacias and royal palms. There is a pool and a bicycle room. Pets are welcome: they have kilometres of estate to walk on and a fenced play area below the pool, with rules that the hotel publishes on its website.

Getting there

It is in the Agaete Valley, at the edge of town on the way inland. You need a car: from Las Palmas, about 40 minutes along the GC-2 to Agaete and then the valley road. From the house you have the Maipés nearby and, further up the valley, the coffee and wine estate.