“Now he’s going to build a mansion”

La Gaviota, the house that belonged to Encarna Sánchez for a year and that has witnessed Antonio Banderas’ most important moments in the last three decades, has been demolished after more than a decade of legal disputes. However, the protagonist of The Skin I Live In o Pain and Glory will give a second life to the landto the point that their plans already include raising the walls of an impressive mansion that will reincarnate the spirit of the first.

After demolishing the chalet, the award-winning actor will now be able to build a new home that meets the standards: “In the building permit it is exempt from the demolition of the pool. This indicates that Banderas is going to build a mansion“, Luis Pliego explained this Wednesday in TardeARThe journalist recalled that “The plot is yours as long as you respect the spaces”.

Banderas demolished La Gaviota following a Supreme Court ruling dating back to 2015. The actor has been left without one of his favorite refuges in the worldlocated in the Los Monteros Sur area, one of the most exclusive in Marbella.

The chalet where Antonio Banderas was so happy with Melanie Griffith and where he spent so many hours with Nicole Kimpel It was built with an illegal license granted in 1995 by the Government team of Jesús GilIsabel Pantoja has also passed through the walls of La Gaviota, as a result of the close friendship she maintained with Encarna Sánchez.

The journalist used this property as a summer residence, although her illness meant that she could only enjoy it for a short period of time. Jesús Gil provided her with the land to build La Gaviota after the support that the journalist gave him through COPE in the elections of 1991 and 1995.

The Malaga native acquired this home in the summer of 1996, just a few months after the journalist’s death from cancer.and since then it has been one of its greatest treasures. In 2020, she spent the Covid lockdown there.

The actor has expressed on more than one occasion that he feels like a victim of Marbella’s town hall. He already gave up part of his garden after an agreement with the town planning authorities so that the town hall would build a footbridge to allow him to cross the stream that bordered the house.