Palacio de Gobierno de Jalisco

The seat of the Jalisco state government occupies a robust baroque palace of the mid-eighteenth century facing the main square of Guadalajara. Its greatest treasures are the murals painted by José Clemente Orozco, above all the fierce depiction of the independence hero Miguel Hidalgo brandishing a torch that fills the main staircase. Additional murals in the former legislative chamber continue the artist's charged vision of Mexican history. The stone facade, carved with columns and heraldry, opens onto a courtyard at the city's civic heart.