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 El 10 de marzo de 1543 se celebró la primera sesión de Cabildo en las casas Consistoriales. Se sabe muy poco de la construcción original ya que a partir de su reconstrucción en 1740 terminando en 1743 por el Arquitecto Mayor de la Ciudad Diego de Porres, apunta que contaba con diversos salones cesionarios y la "Cárcel del Pobre". Su construcción es tan sólida que fueron pocos los arreglos hechos en la época de las eventuales destrucciones de los edificios aledaños debido a los sismos. Sus paredes con un grosor de más de un metro, fachada de piedra y techos abovedados resaltan la construcción antisísmica de Antigua Guatemala.
Debido al traslado de la capital al valle de la ermita el edificio fue abandonado y posteriormente restaurado por el Corregidor José Maria Palorno y Montúfar en 1853.
1956 se fundó el Museo de Santiago o Museo de Armas de la Ciudad (ver "Museos"). Hasta los sismos de 1976 funcionó como Ayuntamiento o Municipalidad sufriendo daños e incluso necesario demoler la torre del reloj, agregada en el siglo XIX reforzándose estructuralmente con técnicas constructivas y lineamientos científicos de la UNESCO.
English  On March 10th. 1543, the first City Council meeting was held in the City Hall. Very little is left from the original building since the beginning of its restoration, done in 1740 and finished in 1743, by the architect of the city, Diego de Porres, who wrote that the palace had several session rooms and a jail.
Its very solid structure was mostly damaged by the surrounding buildings and not by the movement of the earthquakes. Some of its wide walls measure more than one meter. Its stone façade and roofs are reinforced with anti schism construction.
When the city was transferred to the Ermita Valley, the building was abandoned and later restored by the Mayor José María Palomo y Montúfar in 1853. In 1956, the Museum of Santiago or Weapons Museum was founded inside this building (See Museums).
Until the 1976 earthquake, it was used as the City Hall or Municipality, suffering so many damages, that its Clock Tower had to be demolished and then rebuilt during the XIX century; but this time it had to be reinforced with architectural techniques the advisement from UNESCO.
Corregidor: (note of the translator) the term was used in the Colonial times to the City Mayor
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