Palacio de la Mala Noche

Palacio de la Mala Noche Review

Across from the downtown plaza is a national monument: two 18th-century colonial buildings with lacy ironwork balconies, built from native pink stone. One is a municipal building known as the Palace of the Bad Night, which, according to legend, was the home of a silver-mine owner. The mine had failed, so, left with only enough funds to pay his workers' final wages, he went to pray at the cathedral. On the way home he ran into a woman whose son was sick and gave her everything he had. Early the next morning loud banging on the door seemed to herald his doom, but upon opening the door he was instead informed that the mine workers had found the richest gold vein ever seen in these parts.