Room Jacobo Araoz Balmaseda

Room 1 is a single room with a double bed (with the possibility of an extra bed), with en suite bathroom, located on the first floor. The room has a Juliet balcony overlooking the calle Jazmín, and was the former weapons room.

THE HISTORICAL FIGURE

Jacobo Araoz Balmaseda (Captain General of Navarre)

El Redal (1822-1892)

• He was promoted to Colonel on the basis of his war record and bravery in battle, at the head of the liberal troops in San Sebastián, Irún, Fuenterrabía, Seville, Navarre, Pamplona, etc., during the Carlist wars. As a Brigadier, he defeated the final Carlist resistance in 1876 at the battle of Lapoblación, which brought the war to an end. He was Governor of Puerto Plata and in his service record it states that he fought against the pirates who were trying to invade Cuba. In one of his return journeys to El Redal, he brought back two Negro servants who he had freed and to whom he had given his name. The remains of one of them still lie in the village cemetery. The other was captured in the market gardens of El Redal by the troops of Zumalacarregui. The Carlist general died in the arms of the Negro Araoz during the Siege of Bilbao.