Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá D.C - Palacio Liévano
French-style former arcade site rebuilt after fire, seat of a colonial-era viceregal residence turned city hall.
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This guide to the Palacio Liévano in Bogotá opens on a May night in 1900, when a patrol crossing the plaza smells smoke near a hat shop in the old arcade. It goes back to the merchant brothers who built that arcade in the 1840s, and to the city records stored inside it. A French architect, Gaston Lelarge, and an engineer named Indalecio Liévano also turn up along the way. Best heard standing in the plaza, facing the arched portico.
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