La Laguna City Hall

The first government building on the island of Tenerife, the Cabildo, was built on this historic site.

Today, the original structure of the building has been changed and its most striking feature is its facade. The old balcony from which the proclamations and proclamations were made was modified when in 1822 the architect Juan Nepomuceno Verdugo Da-Pelo carried out the renovation and gave it a neoclassical finish and covered it with blue stonework. On the top it says that it was “ruled by Don Fernando VII”.

Inside, a wide staircase leads to the antechamber of the auditorium. The walls are covered with murals from 1764 by Carlos Da Acosta, depicting scenes from the conquest of the island: the appearance of the Virgin of Candelaria to the Guanches, the surrender of the Guanche Menceyes to Alonso Fernández de Lugo and their presentation to the court of the Catholic monarchs. The staircase is covered with an octagonal roof, in Portuguese style with floral decoration.

The Noble Halls were built in 1860-1866, with plans by Manuel de Oraá y Arocha; they were renovated in 1934, and also in 1963, when the specially decorated flat wooden roof was completed.

Willem Vandenameele