Don't miss it
This building is part of the interior of the National Palace and has free entry to the public. The National Palace is abut the Zocalo in Mexico City, so don't miss it, it's well known in the area. This attractive building, before being library as it is today, was a blacksmiths, printing shop, paper warehouse and a chapel during the viceroyalty (this is why it's also known as the Chapel of the Empress). Built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was the site where coins were melted. It's lighting is a natural consequence of having large windows. It was transformed in 1928 into the Library of Finance of the Ministry of Finance, which has bibliographic literature, philosophy, economics and history, but in 1970, all these books were taken to the ancient oratory of San Felipe Neri.
