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Catalina, daughter of Antonio Lercaro, was forced to marry an older man, who enjoyed a good position and great wealth.
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Catalina Lercaro
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The Lercaro was an important family of Genoese merchants, based in Tenerife after the conquest. This marriage of convenience did not please Catalina, who on her wedding day decided to kill herself by leaping into the pit which is located in the courtyard of the family mansion (since 1993, the Museum of the History of Tenerife). These events led the Lercaro family to move to Louisiana Orotava.
Since then many people claim to have seen the specter of Catalina Lercaro walking through the halls of the museum.
Currently Catalina Lercaro is the most famous spectre of the Canary Islands. Also the mansion where he lived, is the "haunted mansion" most famous of the islands.
