City Hall Building

Right in front of the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción is the Town Hall. It is a magnificent palace that has been declared a National Monument.

The exaltation of the palaces in the civil architecture of Labastida is not uncommon. The town was once one of the main population centers in the area and, as a legacy of that time, it is dotted with palatial mansions that turn its streets into an authentic open-air museum.

The Town Hall is one of the many significant constructions that the visitor will have the good fortune to find on their way through the historic quarter, which, we never tire of repeating, is a delightful walk through the Baroque.

The building, made of masonry stone, was built during the 18th century, between 1730 and 1745, by the master Agustín de Azcárraga and the stonemason Ignacio de Lizarralde.

The Labastida Town Hall Palace or Town Hall is located in front of the church, in the Plaza de la Paz, the authentic main square and nerve center of the town and a place of recreation and social gathering for its neighbors. It is a baroque building but with a very classic and elegant architecture, begun in 1732.

It is a two-storey building whose main façade is of great artistic quality. In the lower part there is a beautiful triple arcade with semicircular arches through which you can access a wide portico that occupies the entire length of the building and has a stone bench attached to the wall.

Inside, a magnificent stone staircase provides access to the main floor, which has three large and artistic cantilevered balconies; the three are crowned by semicircular pediments that keep the symmetry with the arches of the lower part.

It has a rectangular floor plan and its main façade is structured by a first level of three semicircular arches that shelter a porch or fish market. The upper floor shows three flat balconies surrounded by mural arches. Corinthian corinthian pilasters were placed between these structures and giving an air of verticality to the whole. The upper finish is a balustraded terrace.