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EL CASCO HOUSE MUSEUM

A space that represents the history of La Hacienda EL CARMEN A QUINTAS RECREATIVAS LA HACIENDA, This house called EL CASCO DE LA HACIENDA, first belonged to Mr. Gustavo Lozano at the end of the 19th century, and was later acquired by the German citizen Urbano Hilleprandt during the first decade of the 20th century, by 1912 the mayor on duty in San José Villanueva recognized the title of owner.

Our history
According to research carried out by archaeologists and museographers Leonardo Regalado Hernandez and Orión Castellón Frech, it was built more than 150 years ago, based on materials such as clay, wood and lime, the building is testimony to a time when land tenure was the main economic base of Salvadoran society. Its architecture still allows us to observe the conceptions of spaces and work typical of the historic times in which the haciendas constituted the bases of agricultural production in El Salvador.


It was dedicated to raising cattle, crops such as; corn, beans, coffee and grass, using the latter as fodder for the cattle he owned and from which the milk was sold to the town of San José Villanueva.


Don Urbano died in 1946, leaving Walter Luis Hilleprandt as his heir, born on the same hacienda and of which he would be the owner until 92 of the 20th century when the 300-block plot of land was sold to investors for the construction of the residential Quintas Recreativas La Hacienda .


In 2001, Grupo Roble acquired the project, promoting the land as a residential park and giving a new meaning to the property, reforesting and modifying the land, leaving the old Hildebrandt house and other attached structures that were modified standing.

EL CASCO of LA HACIENDA is an inspiration, recognition and our main cultural heritage, which marks a before and after with a series of daily manifestations that, in addition to being able to enjoy, will remain as cultural heritage for the new generations. The rock art or graphic undoubtedly constitutes a very important pre-Hispanic legacy for the region. In 1930 the historian Doctor David J. Guzmán gives us an interesting fact in his book as La Pintada de Villanueva with abstract curvilinear motifs and dots, symbology that is related to the fertility, prosperity and abundance of the earth.