Description
The building that houses the Arjona Town Hall is a traditional Andalusian style house from the 19th century that Juan Eslava Galán describes very precisely: (…) The Arjona Town Hall was an Andalusian-style house with a bright and beautiful interior patio paved with marble and surrounded by columns. Along the walls, a beautiful tiled plinth ran up to mid-height. In the corners there were pots of aspidistras; on the walls, bulletin boards and large, faded aerial photographs of the town. At the back was the marble staircase that led to the upper floor.(…) The Arjona Town Hall is one of the last places that Pío Expósito, the protagonist of the novel, visits in the city. He only goes to return an umbrella to the secretary, but he will find an unexpected surprise. Once inside the building, it is worth visiting the room called the Old Town Hall Room, which is used as a reception place for official visits and which has a historicist decoration with medieval Islamic reminiscences, with typical elements of Mudejar, Nasrid or Caliphate artistic styles and, therefore, differentiated from the rest of the Town Hall. This decoration was originally located in the palace-house of Barón de Velasco, Fernando Ruano Prieto.
