Palacio del Obispado

Palacio del Obispado is an eighteenth-century colonial building in Monterrey, Nuevo León, built between 1787 and 1788 at the initiative of Bishop Rafael José Verger as a house of repose and worship. Also known as El Obispado, it stands on the hill now called Cerro del Obispado and is among Monterrey’s oldest surviving structures and a rare example of viceregal architecture in northeastern Mexico. Built in Spanish colonial Baroque style, it later served military, public health, and even entertainment uses through wars, epidemics, and decline. Restored beginning in 1946, it opened as the Regional Museum of Nuevo León in 1956.

Nuevo León · Mexico