Puerto De La Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

A rare opportunity in Puerto de la Cruz: an exceptional villa set on a magnificent 5,697 m² plot in a tranquil rustic banana-growing area, just a five-minute walk from the town centre, fine restaurants, cafés and everyday services.

The house is conceived as a private residential pavilion within an expansive botanical garden of palms and mature landscaping. Set more than 110 metres above sea level, it offers extraordinary privacy, a refined sense of seclusion and sweeping views over the sea and Mount Teide.

Living space is arranged on a single continuous level. A fluid, light-filled living room in polished natural wood opens on every side to the garden, with a fireplace at its centre. A glazed wraparound gallery, almost a room in itself, unites the dining table with the garden on all sides. The eat-in kitchen is finished in checkerboard stone, with skylights and French doors that draw the garden indoors. A glazed wooden porch wraps the house like a gallery, dissolving the line between the rooms within and the terraces, plants and light without.

There are six bedrooms in all: four on the main level, including the principal suite with its dressing room and en-suite bathroom, and two more in the semi-basement, where a multipurpose room offers the potential for an independent second living space. Three bathrooms and a guest toilet serve the house.

Outside, an L-shaped pool sits flush with the lawn, framed by royal palms and the pitched terracotta roofline. Stone paths thread through some forty mature palms and volcanic rock in a private botanical garden that closes overhead before opening again to lawn and light. The estate is completed by a wine cellar, an independent office-library, a garden annex with its own kitchen, a garage for three cars, perimeter fencing and an alarm system.

Freehold. Offered by private sale, viewings strictly by appointment.