Municipal Palace

These Old Royal Houses are currently the headquarters of the Honorable City Hall of San Luis Potosi. Its construction was carried out at the beginning of the seventeenth century by instructions of Viceroy Gaspar de Zuñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey and Viceroy of Peru to comply with the ordinances of Felipe II that he ordered to be built on one side of the main temple to support in times of need.

In 1767 the inhabitants of the Spanish town and nearby towns, mutinied by the expulsion of the Jesuits by Charles III and as a result of this was the destruction of these Royal Houses, at the time the battered building was bought in 1835 and was recovered in an unfinished reconstruction in 1873, being occupied in its upper part by the Town Hall and in the lower part as commercial premises, hence the name of the Parian or La Lonja for a while to this building, until 1892 when it was acquired by the Excmo. Bishop Ignacio Montes of Oca and Obregon, who really turned it into a Palace.

This Neoclassical style building has 16 arches that form a 90° angle, seven at the front and nine at the side, has a courtyard flanked by four columns and at the back a monumental staircase, which consists of two entrances that have two mosaics of Pompeian style.

The dome that adorns the Hall of Cabildo which has a straight fronton flanked by Ionic columns as a front, has some pendentives decorated with frescoes of cupids and the name with acronyms of His Excellency and Rvdmo Mr. Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregon.

In addition it is still preserved in the hall of cabildos the oil of eurolo eroli and the music room of the Bishop which is currently the office of the Mayor of the City.

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