18th Century Pamplona Palaces
Main house of the Guendica's entailed estate
The Guendica family was a Biscayan lineage, and one of whose sons, Luís, linked up with the Pamplona family of the Aldunate family in 1713, which led him to build up a large estate in Navarre and to apply forfrom the Navarrese courts to be naturalised as a Navarrese, which he obtained before his death. His life was spent far from Navarre and his native place, as he was a military man, degree programas a second-class man. He trained in Flanders and after some time in the Peninsula was appointed by Philip V as chief corporal-at-arms of Peru and governor of the port of Callao. DegreeOn his return to Spain, he acquired various properties in Pamplona and the surrounding area, obtaining the habit of Santiago, and reaching the rank of lieutenant general, later being appointed governor of Tortosa, interim commander general of the Andalusian coasts and at the end of his days commander general of the province of Guipúzcoa, and died in San Sebastián, where he built the house on various plots of land that he acquired in Navarrería from 1738, needing several loans to finish it. Both the house and its properties passed successively through various hands, until his grandson married the sister of the Marquis of Rozalejo, who left the noble title to his nephew Policarpo, who took over the main house degree scroll.
ANDUEZA UNANUA, Pilar, La arquitectura señorial de Pamplona en el siglo XVIII. Familias, urbanismo y ciudad, Pamplona, Government of Navarre, 2004.