Rodrigo García Pumarino

Rodrigo García-Pumarino (Manzaneda, Gozón, February 22, 1643-Avilés, S.XVIII) was an Asturian businessman. Biography

At the very young age of 15, he moved to the Kingdom of Peru, specifically to the capital of the then-named viceroyalty City of Kings, now the City of Lima. After his forty years he returned to Asturias with a great fortune. He founded a link in the place of La Ponte, in the parish of Vioño (Gozón) and ordered to build in Avilés his house-palace at the entrance of Calle del Rivero, beginning of the Camino Real to Oviedo and in the itinerary of the Camino de Santiago runs along the coast, on its way through Avilés. Don Rodrigo himself had been ennobled in the habit of Caballero de Santiago, and perhaps for these two circumstances, the facade of his Avilesian palace appears adorned with venerous shells and crosses of Santiago. This palace was the work of the architect Avila Francisco Menéndez Camina el Mozo and is a baroque work built in the eighteenth century. Don Rodrigo died without having children, so his house was inherited by his nephews, who after the years were exchanged for another property of the Llano-Ponte family. Bibliography

Pando García-Pumarino, Ignacio (1989). Luanco and the council of Gozón. Editorial Everest. | access = required | url = (help)

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