Palacio Legislativo: Honduras' Congress Building in Tegucigalpa

Building Profile

• Name: Palacio Legislativo (also National Congress, Congress of the Republic).
• Function: Seat of the 128-member Honduran National Congress (4-year terms).
• Architect: Mario A. Favilli.
• Completed: 1954; inaugurated Dec 3, 1956 by President Julio Lozano Díaz.
• Design: Three stories; main entrance framed by a colonnade; interior decorated with murals, paintings, sculptures by Honduran artists.

Symbolism

The neoclassical-meets-modernist structure represents democratic governance in a country with a turbulent political history. It sits in the civic heart of Tegucigalpa, near the Presidential Palace and Supreme Court.