Leaving the surroundings of Santiago Church we go down the sloped street called Gran Capitan and in the second street to our right we find the house where Inca Garcilaso de la Vega lived. This house was owned by his uncle Captain Alonso de Vargas from whom the street's name is taken. It is an ancestral home from the sixteenth century which today houses the tourist information office and holds numerous conferences. It was recovered in the fifties although it needed important renovation.

The house, however, maintains the beauty which it would have had in its time and it holds a little wine cellar, at the end of the interior courtyard, which symbolizes the rest of the cellars in Montilla and which opens the acts that are carried out on the occasion of the Grape Harvest Celebration; it is well worth a visit. (38)

In this house the Inca lived for thirty years and here wrote most of his works. He was the son of the Inca Princess Chimpu Ocilo and Captain Garcilaso de la Vega y Vargas. The Inca called himself Gomez suarez y Figueroa and he was a pupil of his uncle who had come to Montilla to get a debt paid from his relative the Marques of Priego and had stayed here to breed horses, helped by the young Inca, who had come to Spain to carry out a military career and who would take part in the peace process of Alpujarras.

Between 1561 and 1591, with brief periods serving Juan of Austria in the Moorish rebellion, he was in Montilla where he wrote La Florida and his famous Comentarios Reales, printed in Lisbon in 1601. Presently in this house, numerous cultural activities are carried out as well as the international conferences of Inca Garcilaso

The house was located by the Peruvian researcher Raul Porras and was bought by the patron Francisco de Alvear and donated to the town. In this house there is today a pre-Columbian art museum.