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The Alicante City Hall building is a baroque palace from the 18th century. The construction period for the City Hall building spans from 1699, when V. Soler drafted the project, to 1780, the date when the construction works were completed (BEVIÀ and VARELA: 1994, 63).
It is a unique building with towers at the ends and divided into three floors that culminate in a balustrade. On the main facade, which is 49m long, the horizontality is emphasized by the balcony on the first floor and the distribution of openings and solid sections. The "cota cero" (zero level) is located on the pillar where the railing of the main staircase begins, serving as a reference point from which the height above sea level of all points in Spain was measured. The interior of the building highlights the Blue Hall, the Royal Chamber of Isabel II in 1858, with a side chapel presided over by an Immaculate Conception by Lucas Espinós, where mass can be celebrated thanks to a papal bull of Pius VI signed in 1775.