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A house of both commercial and domestic origin, product of the commercial activity with the Spanish Americas or Indies during the 17th and 18th century, we find ourselves in Sanlucar with a type of household adapted to business needs, but at the same time a mirror to prosperity with an esthetic taste of its inhabitants.
These rich merchants that received the name Cargadores a Indias had diverse origin, Spanish and foreign alike. In this case they are connected to the Basque Province lands, the Otaolaurruchi and the merchants of the mountain range of Cadiz, Alpresa.
It was later passed to the hand of the clergyman and vicar of Sanlúcar, licensed Francisco Rubio Contreras, intellectual and prestigious theologist in Andalucia, participant and preacher in numerous ecclesiastical presentations. Appointed by the Minister of Grace and Justice of Queen Isabel II, D. Raimundo Fernandez of Villaverde, first Bishop of Tenerife and subsequently Bishop of Badajoz. His appointment was supported by the religious, intellectual, and social environment that surrounded him, among others, his intimate friends, the ’Señores de Orleans, ‘duques de Montpensier’, and the nuns of the convent that founded ‘La Huerta Grande’ in Sanlucar after him.
From Francisco Rubio Contreras the house is passed to his nephew, Laureano Rubio Alpresa, priest and pastor of the ‘Iglesia de Santo Domingo’ (located close to here), who continued the path of his uncle under the influence of a clear and cultivated oratory. Laureano gave the house to his brother, José Rubio Alpresa, my grandfather, merchant and food products supplier to the entire southern zone of the province of Cadiz, with his store being located in this very house with the entrance and exit of trucks along the Carniceria street.
After the habitual family transfer, segregations and divisions of inheritances, differences, agreements and conclusions, the house was passed on to become the property of my parents, Pepita Rubio Otaolaurruchi and Eduardo Dominguez Lobato, who were previous residents in the house before our arrival in March. It is my father, Eduardo Dominguez Lobato, who developed an intense social, political, and intellectual work in Sanlucar. 'Patron Mayor' of the brotherhood of fishermen and agent of the initiative to transfer the fishing wharf from present-day Bajo de Guia to Bonanza. He was also president of the circle of artisans and member of the municipal corporation for many years during the seventies.
Above all he stressed his love of his town, of its artists, of its people, of flamenco. Journalist by profession, he collaborated with a weekly literary column in the ABC newspaper. Writer of novels, among them Cien Capitulos de Retaguardia, an accurate reflection of what occured in Sanlucar during the first days of the civil war of ‘36. And above all, poet, painter of words, or captivator of sensitive ears, part of his poetry you can see here now, painted on the walls.
As he wrote, "And I sing here, where my soul dreams
where my father walked with hope
and my mother played as a child. "
por e.d.r.
traducción: Maria Evans
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