Located in ancient times in front of the treasure house in Coro, the capital of Falcón State, it is located on Calle Zamora on the corner with Calle Colón, La Casa with iron windows, a house that stands out for combining the baroque and curazolean style for the time, these gray hair stood out for having the feet of their windows supported on the floor, something which was not traditional in the rest of the country, which makes these colonial choir houses unique.

Built in 1765 by Don Francisco Garcés de la Colina for the time the Mayor de Coro, the first thing you see when you arrive at this house in the central part of this city is a wooden door with frame and cornice 8 meters high, in baroque style plaster of the finest in the country and the Caribbean with Dutch details that we can see in sailing by choir due to its proximity to this island.


Another detail of this house were the panzudas columns, whose shape was ahead of the time, these are located in the central pacillo inside the house, where lattices are appreciated that kept the women of the house hidden from visits in the central courtyard of the house.

But the most important thing and for what this house is recognized and is the center of this publication are its iron windows, material that was recognized for the time as luxurious, since it was not in Venezuela, all the houses in the place had wooden windows, popular material and exploitation in the country, which gave this house and its inhabitants of an upper-class economic status.

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