City Hall · El Burgo de Osma (EN)

The architect Ángel Vicente Ubón drew up the project and was in charge of the construction of the work in exchange for 38,000 reales. Construction began in 1769 and was completed in February 1771. Ubón built a Town Hall with arcades in front of which several doors opened: the main one gave access to the hallway and stairs to go up to the main floor; the others corresponded to the royal weight, one to each of the two office rooms and another smaller one that was the exit to the bullpens. On the first floor, in addition to the aforementioned rooms, there was a large barn, with two doors to the street, which is why it was called the Alhóndiga (today the Music Band), and a large corral in the back, with two pens for the bulls. There were also two small dungeons that could be accessed through two doors at the back of the doorway. On the main floor was the majestic Council Hall, through which one could go out to the corridor to watch the public functions, especially bullfighting. From the Hall of Councils there was access to the Town Hall, with archives and an oratory. The central body of the building has two floors. The lower one, with Tuscan columns taken from the old City Hall, has embedded in the facade a coat of arms of King Philip II, two of Bishop Tello (all taken from the old houses) and a tombstone that mentions the old City Hall and the construction of these new ones. On the entablature of the porch there were columns supporting an arcade that constituted the front of the gallery of the main floor, today modified by uninspired concrete pillars that support the architrave instead of the graceful arches. The clock on the roof was placed in 1886. The towers at the ends were paid for by Bishop Bernardo Antonio Calderón so that the City Hall would have a structure similar to that of the front of the Hospital.