The legend of this house has been associated to a witches village because of its function
as an inquisition house. However, there are not proof of it since this court was in decline in the seventeenth
century, when the building was constructed. Alcantarilla had a small court and most of the cases were derived
to Murcia. Its activity, rather than heresy was associated with quackery and superstition.
Interior detail
Interior detail
In the twentieth century Caya Lopez Arias becomes the wife of the son. From this marriage
Caya and Conception were born, who were the last dwellers of the house. By mid-century, it was almost destroyed
by being turned into an inn. Caya remains unmarried and Concepcion marries a lord of Barcelona. They leave the
house and it comes to a ruinous state.
Upper floor
Cross and palm. Symbol of the Inquisition
In 1970 D. Flugencio Artero López becomes the mayor, who gets in touch with the family,
which is in Barcelona to negotiate with them. They get the adjacent garden and the house.
D.Andrés Diaz who is the municipal architect, reconstructs the house, being faithful to the original eighteenth
century building consisting of two floors and ground floor, the superior semicircular windows in the center and
the symbol of the inquisition: cross and palm.
The house was declared of Cultural Interest in 1982, it becomes the municipal public library but remains small.
When the new school library is built next to the Museo de la Huerta, Cayitas house is empty. Subsequently,
it is given the current use: Municipal Archives.
Historical microstories
La Casa de la inquisición
El amor imposible
El despertar de las brujas
La leyenda de Doña Caya
La prisionera
Official journalist Fulgencio Sánchez Riquelme
Official journalist Fulgencio Sánchez Riquelme
IES ALCANTARA HIGH SCHOOL wants to express their gratitude to the actual official journalist in the town of Alcantarilla,
Mr. Fulgencio Sánchez Riquelme. He was the guide who explained us all the information in detail.
Fulgencio Sánchez Riquelme was born in Alcantarilla, in 1951. He's Primary school teacher and he graduated in Philosophy and
Letters, in the Geography's and History's section.
When he was young, he began to colaborate with the press and in some regional magazines such as "Los desaparecidos diarios
línea" and "Hoja del Lunes", making it too in "DIARIO: LA VERDAD". Right now, he's a contributor of "Diario: La opinión de
Murcia"; almost all his jobs have been based in pieces of the regional history and so especially refered to the township of
Alcantarilla, where he has a lot of bibliographic documents.
He's made his teaching in Mazarrón, Sangonera la Seca and in Alcantarilla. From the year 1975, he's been a public servant in
Murcia's university; having right now the Headquarter of the business's service that deals with the publications of that university.
He's an official journalist of Alcantarilla, appointed by the Ilmo. Town hall of the town in 1996.
