Marquesado de la Quinta Roja Garden

Also known as the Jardín Victoria, these French-influenced 18thcentury gardens cascade in terraces down the hillside and are crowned by a small marble mausoleum, built as a tomb for the Marqués de la Quinta Roja. However, the parish priest of the church of La Concepción, José Borges Acosta, prevented the burial due to the masonic belief of the young marquis. The mayor of the time opposes the parish priest, so the bishopric must intervene and while the corresponding process is being investigated and resolved, the burial takes place in the chercha of the cemetery, in a state of emergency given the signs of decomposition it presented . This meant humiliation for the family. It was then that Sebastiana del Castillo decided to build a Mausoleum in her garden to bury her son. She commissioned the work to the French architect Adolph Coquet who arrived on the island in 1882. It was finished in 1883, made with Lyon marble. The Mausoleum stands as a monument against religious intolerance. The widow of the marquis finally obtained permission from the bishopric years later to transfer the remains of her son to the Villa Cemetery. Therefore the marquis was never buried in the Mausoleum and no one knows what or who lies within.