Campeche's Main Plaza
Though the date of the construction is uncertain, it is possible that it was built at the end of the 1540 or beginning of 1541, when the Villa of San Francisco was founded. The Plaza became the main area of the Spanish population settled on one mile, approximately, of the Indian population of Ah Kim Pech.

During the colonial time it was known as the Major Plaza, after a while is was named Plaza of the Constitution and finally in 1826 it was named as Plaza of the Independence. At the end of the XIX century the plaza had three streets of "rounds": the small one where children used to play or parents would walk to take care of the kids; the second one, or the middle one, youth and grown ups would walk by, and finally the main part was used by couples in love since it was away form the uproar.

The Plaza has had several changes through years, but it has recovered the image that it used to have at the beginning of the XIX century with a central kiosk and its ironwork fence.

Municipal Palace
In 1846, Dr. Vicente Mendez, a Presbyterian, founded a well known charity hospice which was located on Municipal Square and served to the public until 1874. From 1892 and over more than 65 years it was occupied as a barracks, making the necessary changes.

Campeche's Library
In 1989, the secretary of national defense allowed it to be used as the City Hall pf Campeche, after a process of restoration and rehabilitation. In 1962 ends the colonial cycle, and gives birth to the modernism; the Municipal and Government Palaces (buildings) were demolished, and now days the library is located, and costumes.

In the year 2000, when the reconstruction of Campeche’s Library began, there were accomplished two of the main objectives: cultural richness and technology focused on the community, and the recovery of the original structure of the Plaza, recovering the building that used to have during the colony by the politician powers, giving today a recreational and didactic space for the youth to use.

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