Main house of the estate of the Marquis of Real Defensa

Settled at place del committee, it is linked to the Eslava family. The starting point can be traced back to 1677, when Gaspar de Eslava married Rafaela Lasaga, the former enjoying the entailed estate founded by the latter, with the Indian money of a brother of hers. Two of their offspring stood out, the first-born son Martín Francisco, who inherited the entailed estate, and Sebastián, who entered the army and became viceroy of Nueva Granada. There he excelled in the heroic defence of Cartagena against the attacks of Vernon's English fleet in 1741, which earned his heir (his nephew) the grant of the marquisate of the Royal Defence. He returned to the Court, where he held various dignities, and died in Madrid in 1759, leaving no direct descendants. He endowed his brother and his brother's first-born son with large sums of Indian money, with which the building was built and decorated in the fifties of the 18th century. On his death in 1759, he named his nephew Gaspar as his universal heir, who became marquis a year later. His first-born daughter was related to the Mencos, Marquises of Guenduláin. One of the peculiarities of the house is that it still has remains of polychrome on the coat of arms on the façade, which corresponds to the arms of the Marquis of the Royal Defence.