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3 unusual facts about Catalina Lercaro


Catalina Lercaro

This marriage of convenience 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 (now the Museum of the History of Tenerife).

Later in 1993 the manor house became the present Museum of History and Anthropology of Tenerife.

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).



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