This house on Príncipe street was the first home of Rosalía de Castro and her husband Manuel Murguía between 1870 and 1875, coinciding with the period during which the great Galician historian served as director of the "General Archive of the Kingdom of Galicia”.
At this time, the street was called Padilla, and although there is not much information about the writer's life in the building, the couple's fifth child, Amara, was born here in 1873. It is also here that Rosalía must have written her famous poem to the English general Sir John Moore, the verses of which can be read on a plaque in the garden of San Carlos.
The couple’s stay in A Coruña was prolific, since Murguía also took the opportunity to write his “Memoria Relativa al Archivo General de Galicia” (Report on the General Archive of Galicia), where he makes a manifesto on the importance of the social role of history.
It is a four-storey building, very simple and with few decorative elements, except for a balcony with striking wrought-iron railing that overhangs the entire first floor.