Alcázar Virreinal de Diego Colón
INFORMATION
The construction of the Viceregal Alcázar, which originally belonged to Diego Colón (Christopher Columbus's firstborn) and his family, began in 1511 after King Ferdinand II of Aragon granted him land to build his residence due to his position as Viceroy of the Indies and governor.
The Alcázar was completed three years later and was only occupied by three generations of the Colón de Toledo family until they abandoned it in 1577. After this, the Alcázar was looted during Francis Drake's invasion in 1586, beginning a progressive deterioration that eventually turned it into ruins.
In 1870, the Alcázar was declared a "National Monument" (Decree No. 1164), being the first in the country, and again in 1930 (Decree No. 63). Finally, between 1955 and 1957, the State reconstructed the Alcázar, under the direction of Spanish architect Javier Barroso Sánchez-Guerra, to install a museum with original 16th and 17th-century furniture that remains to this day.
Source: Fachadas Dominicanas