When the Bishop of Michoacán commissioned in the seventeenth century the construction of this beautiful building of Baroque and Neoclassical lines to serve as the headquarters of the Episcopal House, he did not imagine that its magnificence would ruin his plans. The community began to question so much Christian luxury in a city with deficient health services and the palace was ceded to the Juanan monks, who turned it into a hospital. Curiously, one year after seeing the first medical school in Michoacán, in 1866 the palace was converted into a hotel, with the name Los Juaninos in honor of the monks.
