Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá D.C - Palacio Liévano

This guide to the Alcaldia Mayor de Bogota, the Palacio Lievano on Plaza de Bolivar, follows the ground beneath it through three lives: a colonial house shared quietly by a Spanish viceroy and a future independence plotter, a bustling merchant arcade of thirty shops, and the fire that destroyed the whole block on the night of May 20, 1900, taking two and a half centuries of the city's written records with it. An engineer named Indalecio Lievano paid a French architect to raise the palace that replaced it.