LA CASONA DE BESULLO
(BESULLO MANOR HOUSE)

A fire in 2006 destroyed this impressive building that stood proudly over the village of Besullo. It was built in 1897, on the site occupied by the former ancestral home of the Llano-Flórez family, from the 16th century. From then, the charming and very deteriorated private chapel of the House has been preserved.​

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​That former manor house was a fortified enclosure, and the family that inherited it tells us that, in the middle of the 18th century, when the Monastery of Corias suffered a fire that almost completely destroyed it, Pedro de Llano Flórez, its owner at the time, seeing his death approaching and feeling fear of God, in order to purge his sins and earn heaven, dismantled parts of the walled building in order to donate the stone for the reconstruction of the Monastery. A little more than a century later, his grandson Lorenzo demolished a construction that was leaking from all sides and built in its place the imposing building that, at the beginning of the 20th century, would house the Besullo school on its ground floor, where Alejandro Casona's parents were assigned as teachers.

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Its immense corral, its imposing size, its perimeter wall and its iron-clad gate were the first settings for the playwright's childhood fantasy, who saw that house as a castle for his adventures and of which he came to say that it was his birthplace.