In the Colombian Civil War (1860–1862), Valentina decides to hide Arcesio Escobar, a Colombian emissary in Quito ordered to arrest by García Moreno after he bravely demanded him to support General Arboleda. Ecuador declares the war against Arboleda en 1862. Some of his opponents affirmed such decision had been influenced because García Moreno was enamored of Virginia. In 1865, Valentina Serrano sells the Hacienda to Juan and Carlos Aguirre Montúfar, married with her daughters Virginia and Leonor Klinger, and they rent the Hacienda to Gabriel García Moreno in 1868 as a rest house and plants the first eucalyptus forests with plants from Australia.