"I am here with a message of hope that help is on the way," he said, speaking outside the severely damaged national palace.

George Gilbert Scott, designed the new Foreign Office as 'a kind of national palace or drawing room for the nation'

They saw the national palace, the library, the School of Fine Arts, and other public buildings in and around the plaza.

Official duties included chief architect of civil buildings and national palaces, and architect of the postal services.

Supporters of Mr. Préval began to gather at sunrise in front of the national palace.

Later, that afternoon, the first fighter planes, SU-7s, came in low and firing rockets at the national palace in the center of the city.

The law, specified that the President and his family would be permitted to reside in one of the national palaces.

During the 19th century, the population began to grew towards the national palace, but remained generally a rural community (a aspect that would continue until the 20th century).

Right after the verse five aircraft flew across Mexico city and president Calderón made his way to the central balcony of the Mexican national palace.

In 1867, Geffrard's bodyguards, Tirailleurs, betrayed him and tried to assassinate him inside the national palace.