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Allende 403, Centro, 58000 Morelia, Michoacán, México.
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Although the Municipal Palace of Morelia has administrative and governmental importance for the city, being the headquarters of the council sessions of the city council, behind its doors it guards stories that transcended time and give life to the place.
This baroque-style quarry building currently located at 403 Allende Street, was built in the old Valladolid of the viceroyalty in 1781 and was originally built to be the Tobacco Revenue Office or Factory.
It should be noted that this office was necessary since tobacco was a product that was exclusively produced by the Spanish Crown and both its carrying and transportation of the plant outside the American continent had to be regulated and registered with the New Spain bureaucracy.
The construction served this purpose for 19 years, until on October 17, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla arrived in Valladolid and took the city with the help of the newly created insurgent army.
On October 19 of the same year, it is said that the priest Hidalgo, considered the Father of the Country, ordered the issuance of an order in this same building where, in addition to annulling and/or reducing tax burdens, he ordered the liberation of slaves and the prohibition of their buying and selling.
It should be noted that the order issued from the old Tobacco Revenue Office of Valladolid was published by the mayor of Valladolid José María Anzorena and was printed on December 6, 1810 and distributed throughout the Michoacan territory, with all expenses covered by the Valladolid mayor in charge of the government.
Throughout the course of the War of Independence, until the first years of the creation of the Mexican Nation, it is not known with certainty what use was given to this establishment until almost the middle of the 18th century.
By 1846, Governor Melchor Ocampo of the newly formed State of Michoacán used this building as his residence while serving as state leader until he resigned in 1853.
Although he was exiled to New Orleans by Antonio López de Santa Anna in the same year, upon his return he managed to become one of the people closest to Benito Juárez and in 1856 he became a federal deputy and obtained the building as a donation for the Government of Michoacán, under the command of General José Santos Degollado.
The first president of Morelia to use this building as the Municipal Palace was Pascual Ortíz de Ayala, who remained in office from 1856 to 1857.
The Municipal Palace has two levels, as well as an octagonal courtyard, surrounded by a single archway next to a staircase where there is a large coat of arms of the city.
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