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The Casa de Carmona ocuppies a XVIth century palace that has been in the same family - as far as we know – since it was built – and that has past through inheritance successively, 7 times since the property registry begun operations in the early 1800s. The propiertors were called Briones, Briones – Quintanilla, Lasso de la Vega y Quintanilla, Romero de Solis y Lasso de la Vega … all really the same family – just that boeing the property of the house on the mother’s side, the children incorporated their father’s surname- first.
Past by descent 7 times: The first recorded transfer took place from one document ( a will) in which it was referenced this property, the now hotel Casa de Carmona, and 59 others. The successive transfer, it was that property and 57 others. Then 36 … and so on, until the last generation, Marques de Marchelina and his 9 brothers and sisters, now in their 60s, inherited it directly from their grand-mother.
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The last owners: The Marqués suffered the ill fate of inheriting a palace, together with 9 brothers and sisters, with no land or other business to support it – for it had all been divvied up or sold un previous generations. Also, having no farm or business that would keep the family in Carmona, the family grew up in Seville and travelled. Finally, with nothing keeping them tied to Carmona, the palace was left mostly uninhabited and with scarce maintenance. Playing the part of the wealthy Marqués with his own prime palace was not a reality – the house was prime for a new story.
The sale: Ignacio Romero de SolÃs, and his 9 brothers and sisters, sold the house on plaza de Quintanilla nº1, and the square on which it sits – now called the Plaza de Lasso, to Marta Medina, a childhood friend, on July 10, 1987, who bought it with money she had inherited from her successful architect father, Felipe Medina Benjumea, and incorporated it into a company, Casas de España, S.A. she then owned together with her second husband.
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