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sold it to Welser, the German bankers of Emperor Charles
V. In 1513 Welser sold the property to their German
associates Jacome de Monteverde and his uncle Johann
Blesse. The presence today in La Palma of numerous
works of Flemish sculpture
and paintings is due to
Monteverde's frenetic sugar
trade with Antwerp from the
mammoth Tazacorte estate,
built up as a residential and
industrial urban complex,
with the houses of the lords
situated at its core.
Flanders played an important
role in the architectural and
decorative development of
Tazacorte, with prominent
Flemish families settling
there by trade or marriage,
and bringing with them
silverware, embroidery and
ornaments for worship, rugs
draperies, paintings from
the Netherlands and France,
desks tables, buffets, chests, stained glass, mirrors,
Chinese Tang and Qing porcelain, tiles and Delftware.
Furniture, tiles, paintings and religious sculptures were
acquired in Seville from the sixteenth to the eighteenth
century. These magnificent artifacts make a stay at the
