Transferred by the Sotomayor family, in 1709, the jurisdiction and señorío of Santo Tomé and Portonovo to the opulent Alava nobleman Don Diego de Zarate y Murga, who from 1707, with allusive designation to the one of the Sacred Tip, I marquis of Montesacro, he ordered to erect the splendid palace. Walls with sentry boxes to the angles surround their orchard robust. The beautiful chapel dedicated to the Virgin of the Valbanera, was principle of the cult in Cambados to Our Lady, under this foreign invocation.
By testamentary disposition of last marquis owner of this house, the Asylum is lodged nowadays.
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