Museum of the Royal Houses

The Museo de las Casas Reales is one of the essential cultural monuments built during the colonial technology in Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic. It is located in the Colonial district of Santo Domingo. The building dates lower back to the sixteenth century, and was built to house the executive places of work of the Spanish colonies in the Americas, at the time any trespassers could be sentenced to death. The palace changed into built by using orders of the Spanish Crown, represented with the aid of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, on October 5 of 1511 to house the primary

government places of work of the colony in two interconnected homes hence the plural Casas Reales. In the first South section was the Royal Audiencia, the first courtroom of the New World, as well as the office of the Comptroller General. The 2d North phase turned into used by the successive Viceroys, Governors and Captains-General. The original architectural shape has undergone a number of adjustments via the country's records. In 1807, at some stage in the length of French sovereignty over the Eastern part of Hispaniola, French preferred Louis Ferrand gave the facade a classical architectural fashion.