LA MERCED PALACE Superior Academy of Arts of Bogotá
Carrera 13 No. 14-69
	Building restoration started in 1981, and was declared National Monument by September. Built in 1773 as the home of Capuchin Monks convent, who occupied the building until May 30, when the convent was closed. In June the same year, a presidential decree was issued founding La Merced school, the first institution for girls, which was only able to open its doors in April 16, 1938 since the Military Hospital occupied the convent up to that time. A curious fact is that the 68 prohibited books for containing writings by Raynal, Roberston, Montesquieu and United States laws belonging to Pioneer Don Antonio Nariño, were kept in La Capuchina Convent. In 1926 the convent was demolished and the new building started as designed by Bogotanian architect Carlos José Lascano Berti. On April 9, 1948, when leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was killed, and although San Victorino was set on fire, the convent and the church were undamaged. After that incident the School assigned first floor facilities to Government of Cundinamarca offices up to May 1949. In 1982 the building housed Capital District Metropolitan Libraries System, Antonio Nariño Public Library and a video theca, hemerotheca and Arts documentation and information center. From November 22, 1991 by virtue of Commodatum entered into between the Governor of Cundinamarca, Andrés González, and the Mayor of Santa Fe de Bogotá, Juan Martín Caicedo Ferrer, the building became Superior Arts Academy of Bogotá, becoming a prestigious university artistic education center at national level.