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The National Palace (Spanish: Palacio Nacional) is the seat of the federal executive in Mexico. Since 2018 it has also served as the official residence for the President of Mexico . It is located on Mexico City 's main square, the Plaza de la Constitución ( El Zócalo ).
A viceroy ( / ˈvaɪsrɔɪ /) is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the Anglo-Norman roy ( Old French roi, roy ), meaning "king".
This palace was built on the ruins of Moctezuma II's palace beginning in 1521, using the same tezontle stone used to build the Aztec palace. It was originally in the Hernán Cortés family until the king of Spain bought it to house the viceroys of New Spain and remained so (despite being destroyed and rebuilt again in 1692) until Mexican ...
Cristóbal de Villalpando, detail of the viceroy’s palace and volcanoes, View of the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City, c. 1695, oil on canvas (Corsham Court Collection, Wiltshire) Villalpando crafts a painting that gives the impression of a snapshot, or a realistic portrayal of Mexico City’s main plaza.
For this reason, the architects in charge of the reconstruction, by order of Viceroy Matías de Gálvez, suggested the construction of a new palace on the top of the hill. In 1785, during the government of Viceroy Bernardo de Gálvez (1785-1786), the construction of the new palace began.
Viceroy Palace in Mexico. 1676 - 1700. Museo de América. Madrid, Spain. Life in the viceroyalty of New Spain was internally ruled from the buildings surrounding the central square of Mexico...
…seat of power is the National Palace, originally the residence of the viceroys during the colonial period. It is located on the east side of the Zócalo, where enormous crowds gather every September 15 at 11 pm (on the eve of Mexican Independence Day) to join the president in the…
