The Museum of History and Anthropology of Tenerife ( es, Museo de Historia y Antropología de Tenerife) is part of the Autonomous Organism of Museums and the Cabildo de Tenerife. It opened in December 1993 in the property known as "Casa Lercaro" in

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, Canary Islands,

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. The museum holds out the prospect of spreading the history of the island of

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, offering an overview of institutional, socio-economic and cultural development of the island, from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century. The museum also performs a task of research, rescue, preservation, dissemination and exhibition of heritage treasure pieces, documentary and

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Legend

In this mansion there is the legend of

Catalina Lercaro Catalina Lercaro (Catherine Lercaro), 16th century, was an Italian-Canarian woman of the Lercaro family, renowned in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain). The Lercaro were an important family of Genoese merc ...

. She was forced to marry an older man, who enjoyed a good position and great wealth. This

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did not please Catalina, who on her wedding day decided to kill herself by leaping into the pit which is located in the courtyard of the family mansion. Since then many people claim to have seen the

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of Catalina Lercaro walking through the halls of the museum.El fantasma de Catalina
Noticia en el diario El Día The mansion/museum is the most famous ''"

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"'' of the Canary Islands.

References

External links

Organismo Autónomo de Museos y Centros de Tenerife
{{Authority control Museums in Tenerife History of Tenerife Museom of the History of Tenerife

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