National Palace of the Dominican Republic
The grand white palace at the heart of Santo Domingo has served as the seat of Dominican executive power since 1947, blending colonnaded Neoclassicism with…
The grand white palace at the heart of Santo Domingo has served as the seat of Dominican executive power since 1947, blending colonnaded Neoclassicism with…
One of the world tallest wooden structures at 56 metres, built entirely without nails and the only building in the region to survive the catastrophic 1910…
The most important historic monument in Central America, San Salvador’s National Palace took sixteen years to build and survived catastrophic earthquakes to…
Built as the Royal Mint of colonial Chile and converted into the presidential palace in the nineteenth century, La Moneda is the most historically resonant…
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Paraguay’s presidential palace was begun under the first constitutional president and completed as his son plunged the country into the most catastrophic war…
A fantastical fusion of Moorish and Gothic stonework in the heart of Medellin, the Palacio de la Cultura is the most extraordinary 20th-century civic…
The presidential palace of Ecuador occupies the western flank of Quito’s Plaza Grande in one of the best-preserved colonial city centers on earth, a site of…
The oldest surviving building in Namibia, built in 1890 as a German colonial fortress and now housing the Independence Memorial Museum.