Casa Amarilla, Puerto de la Cruz, Historic cultural monument in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain.
This two-story traditional Canarian house features yellow-painted walls, wooden tea wood elements, and original windows that showcase early 20th-century rural architecture typical of northern Tenerife.
Built in the early 20th century by Mayor Melchor Luz, the house served as the world's first primatology research station from 1913 to 1920 under the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Wolfgang Köhler conducted groundbreaking chimpanzee intelligence experiments here that contributed to the development of Gestalt psychology, making this site internationally significant for behavioral science.
Located in La Costa area near La Paz urbanization, the monument is currently in deteriorated condition with demolished roof and interior sections, though exterior walls remain intact.
This building represents the only surviving location where the foundational experiments for modern animal psychology were conducted, establishing Puerto de la Cruz as a pioneer in scientific research.
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