Welcome to Casa Doñano

Going past Vilela, when coming from or going to Ribadeo, you feel surprised and obliged to look up as soon as you discover the anomaly. A small blue granary breaks up the monotony of the green landscape. This is Casa Doñano’s small granary.

In the XIX century, Jesús Millares, a 14-year old boy left for Cuba from that place, looking for better opportunities. Many years later, now a grown man, Jesús Millares went back to the village, bought an extensive plot of land and built, as many other indianos did at that time, a very large house. He invested some of his fortune and all of his hope in it. He arrived at the village with “La Mulata”, his mixed race partner, causing astonishment and embarrassing the villagers.  

He then became Don Jesús. A gentleman, an indiano, with some wealth, some influence, some discretion, some attractiveness, some mystery, some seduction.

When you are in this house you can feel his soul.  You can live it. And you do so through your senses, maybe the colours, the sounds, the textures of the different smells, or altogether, it is a synaesthesia that brings everything together and makes you suddenly feel like you’re in a different place. A place containing treasures, influence, discretion, attractiveness, mystery and seduction.

You realize that you are at Casa de Don Jesús when you see the stone walls, the beams and wood brought from the Americas and you can perceive a feeling of nobility at the same time that you notice the Caribbean essence from the furniture, the paintings, the music and the presence of Maria Rosa Fisas, the new indiana and current owner of the building.

Casa Doñano is a catalogue of emotions which bring you laughter, a flutter to your chest. It is a place for romance and passion, not just to be though, but to find and feel it, to live it, to not want to leave the house, or its gardens, or its terraces. That’s why the little granary is blue, so that you can never miss it.

Welcome to Casa Doñano