Durango is home to the Casa del Conde del Valle de Súchil, a splendid colonial house, a worthy representation of Mexican colonial architecture.
Without a doubt, this is the most splendid colonial house in the region, due to the layout of its façade and the beauty of the front and interiors. It belonged to the rich miner and landowner Joseph del Campo Soberón y Larrea, Count of Valle de Súchil, who ordered it to be built between 1763 and 1764. Its builder was a master builder named Pedro de Huertas, who gave the house an excellent façade and magnificent baroque-style interiors dotted with countless motifs of Rococo taste. Its façade of two bodies arranged in an ochavo stand out, and the elegant decoration of the second body, with stipe pillars profusely decorated with plant motifs that seem to end in the niche where the sculpture of Saint Joseph with the Child is located. Inside, the magnificent low arcade of the courtyard is surprising, with columns and arches decorated with zigzagging striations that contrast with the simplicity of the upper part.
Calle de Francisco I. Madero and 5 de Febrero in the city of Durango.
