Government Palace

From the beginning of life in the new Spanish city of Antequera, today Oaxaca in the XVI century, there was constructed a home where this building stands and used as an administrative office, to deal with the affairs of the province. Later in the XVIII century was built the first building as the one today and then another in the XIX century but due to earthquakes it was renewed and the one we see today dates from the early 1940’s.

The building faces the main plaza and it’s still today the main administrative building of the affairs of the State of Oaxaca and has the offices of the Governor and closest aids.

Great to see are the two murals that decorate the central & east stairways, painted by the renowned artist Arturo Garcia Bustos in 1980 and 1987 respectively.

The main mural in the central stairway is divided into three historic sections: pre Columbian, Colonial & Contemporary from the independence of 1810 to the revolution of 1910.

The east mural is on the lateral stairway and is painted over the small dome and walls of that smaller area. It has as a main focus the appreciation of Oaxaca’s Indian heritage and shows the pre-Columbian understanding of the creation of the universe, their perception of life & death and traditional customs that are still practiced in present day Oaxacan daily life.

Free Entrance
Open Daily 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.