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Palace of the Marquis of San Nicolás.

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Palace of the Marquis of San Nicolás.
The palace of the Marquis of San Nicolas is a characteristic building of the civil baroque architecture of La Rioja in the 18th century. It was built by Ignacio Elejalde by order of D. Esteban de Francia, the main balcony has on its base a Victor with the date 1755, alluding to the year in which it was completed. At present the palace is owned by the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, used as the seat of the City Council and as the ethnology section of the Museum of La Rioja under the name of "La Casa Encantada" (The Enchanted House). Inside you can visit an ethnographic museum of a typical Riojan house from the 18th to the 19th century.

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