Coordinates: 28 ° 27'19.1 "N 16 ° 15'13.5" W / 28.455306, -16.253750 House of gunpowder.
The Casa de la Pólvora is a building of the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). It is located next to the Castillo de San Juan and the César Manrique Maritime Park, just outside the historic center of the city, in the area known as Cabo-Llanos.
The Casa de la Pólvora was built between 1756 and 1758 on the old road to Regla, very close to the sea, according to the plans of the engineer Francisco La Pierre, with the aim of serving as a warehouse for artillery the military detachments of the area.
Built in masonry, it has a rectangular floor plan, being circular on the smaller sides, and is covered with a half-barrel vault. Years after being built, during the time of Major General Ibanez Cuevas, a shoulder was raised in this place to cover the storeroom of the sea views and thus hamper the attack by enemy ships.
After having had military use for a century and a half, it was abandoned in the 19th century.
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