The city of Vera began to grow under the protection of the mining bourgeoisie. The nineteenth century brought mining, and with it came the manor houses. An example of this is Orozco House on Calle del Mar, which was the stage for the Orozco family saga. The property was built by Ramon Orozco Gerez, a native of the town who had become one of the richest men in the province during the nineteenth century thanks to the exploitation of regional mines.
In the first half of the nineteenth century he became Mayor of Vera and was later elected to Parliament five times until the 1870s. The region has to thank him for the development of the mining industry in the ravine of the Sierra Almagrera Jaroso and for the lead factory located in the town of Garrucha, where to this day, one can visit the mining railway that lead from the mines in the village of Bedar to the port of Garrucha.
The property was built during the transition period between neoclassicism and the more decorative historicism. It is one of the main manor houses in the province because of its monumental and representative character present in its three floors. At present, it is being restored into a historical museum dedicated to its first owner, Ramón Orozco and to the mining industry he developed.
