The building was originally an Islamic koranic school from XIII Century A.C, transformed into Town Hall by the Catholic Kings after the conquering of Granada, occurred in 1492 turning it into a Baroque Palace.
The original Praying room was though, probably due to it´s beauty conserved.
Praying Room, XVII Century A.C
Original restored Vaults and the new stucco in the vertical paraments
Gentlemans Saloon.
The original mortar was in such a bad condition and had suffer so many different restorations and reparations, that all the contrasting materials had caused several cracks and detachment of the parament not worth conserving.
We worked the new mortar directly from the masonry wall as you can appreciate in the following pictures.
Old windows and doors, opened and closed, an endless mixture of materials through the ages, the lack of perpendicularities and the extreme care we had to take with some of the recently restored adjoining elements, such as the honeycombed work from the Praying Room or the Mudejar coffered ceiling from the Gentlemans Saloon, made this and specially difficult work, still so rewarding
