113 years ago the Miraflores Palace became a presidential house

113 years ago, the building that would later be converted into the residence and office of Venezuelan leaders, was purchased by the Nation, known as the Miraflores Palace, located near the central part of the city.

The Miraflores Palace is the seat of the Government of Venezuela, where the official office of the President of the Republic is located.

General Juan Vicente Gómez became the first president to occupy the Miraflores Palace, acting as the Official Residence of the Presidents of the Republic.

Among the spaces found inside the Residence are: The Presidential Office, Simon Bolivar Hall, Hall of the Council of Ministers, Hall of Ambassadors, Ayacucho Hall, Boyacá Hall, Pantano de Vargas Hall, Salon Sol del Perú and Chapel.

Fun facts

Its current name, Palacio de Miraflores, was given to Joaquín Crespo when he returns from Spain and the name is due to a Charterhouse that exists in the city of Burgos. It was one of the first anti-seismic buildings in Venezuela.

Joaquín Crespo died on April 16, 1898 and after the earthquake in Caracas on October 29, 1900, General Cipriano Castro, already in power, decided to rent Miraflores as a presidential residence.

Cipriano Castro is the first President of Venezuela to inhabit the Miraflores Palace. The Office of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit is also transferred there.

On January 1, 1901, the Miraflores Palace held the first official reception on the occasion of the New Year.

In March 1901, the National Constituent Assembly approved a project authorizing the Federal Executive Branch to acquire ownership of the Miraflores Palace in order to convert it into a Presidential Mansion.

The national government acquired the Miraflores Palace on June 19, 1911 and converted it into a presidential house. General Juan Vicente Gómez becomes the first president to occupy the Palace as the Official Residence of the Presidents of the Republic. A large reception is held there on the occasion of the Centenary of Independence on July 5, 1911.

On June 30, 1923, Juan Crisóstomo Gómez (Juancho Gómez), brother of President Juan Vicente Gómez , was assassinated in his room in the Miraflores Palace.

In 1936, President Eleazar López Contreras changed the personalist character that Castro and Gómez had attributed to it and gave it the profile of the National Government Palace.

The Government Palace is listed as a National Historic Monument. But with the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez, this space was rescued at the service of the people, an enclosure where the civic-military union took over for the rescue of democracy in April 2002.

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