Originally built to be the Government Headquarters for the City of Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico at the end of the XIX Century. Orizaba was at that time, the 5th most important city in the nation and the richest in the State of Veracruz. Considered the most educated and cultured city in the country during President Porfirio Diaz regime. Reason from which, a good number of it's foreign inhabitants migrated to Orizaba to test their luck and furtune(mainly during the last half of the 1800's): French, Swedish, Irish, English, Spaniards, Italians, Americans and Germans established themselves in Orizaba to start a new venture, business or company. This Inmigrant influx brought to the city the taste for the 'international' culture and the latest European trends. On September 26,1891, with the support of the citizenry and the State's Government, Orizaba's Mayor, Sr. Julio M. Velez, gave the order to the Societe Anonyme des Forges D´Aiseau, of Belgium to build an exceptional and unique construction that would represent the modernity and financial status of Orizaba in Mexico. A palace that would showcase Orizaba's International Status. The Belgian company offered the project to the architect with most prestige and fame in Europe, the one that with his most innovative and original techniques could designed such an important building, they called the French-German Engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. Following his great triumph at the Paris Fair in 1889, with the presentation with his ...
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