The city’s best surviving specimen of secular colonial architecture is Palacio Torre Tagle which was built in 1735 for Don José Bernardo de Tagle y Bracho, to whom King Philip V gave the title of First Marquis of Torre Tagle. The house remained in the family until it was acquired by the government in 1918. Today, it is still used by the Foreign Ministry, but visitors are allowed to enter courtyards to inspect the fine, Moorish-influenced woodcarving in the balconies, the wrought ironwork and a 16th-century coach, complete with commode.
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