It had the form of a very irregular pentagon, with curtains unequal in length and with protrusions of protrusions and angles very different from each other. The present fort or castle began to be constructed in 1778 and finished the 7 of July of 1783. The architect Ramón Panón and the engineer Miguel de Constanzó gave to the project the form of a regular pentagon, with five bastions entirely equal and of great salient. This building is part of your identity of the city.
After we explained the main landmark so we can start to explain the main houses.
1- Palm house: The houses are of a plant, this one is generally rectangular the roofing is to two waters and is covered with palm or grass. The floors are of earth, the walls of bajareque, with portico to the front. The houses are small.
2- Clay house: The houses are of a plant and this one is rectangular, the walls are of adobe and also of bajareque, the outer zones are covered by the portal, the roof is of tile and its cover to two waters. They have portico at the front (sometimes also in the back).
These houses consist of a single floor built of masonry of granite stone, walls of bajareque or adobe and the roof of clay tile; there is another variant, where the walls are thicker and the material used is brick, the roof is also tile and has a greater foundation, so also, a variant of these typologies is that they have a portal or corridor in front of the house, which in the case of adobe walls, the material used is wooden posts, and in the case of brick walls, the columns are of the same material with an ornamental order. In this second variant the walls are revoked with plaster and painted with lime in vivid colors (blue, pink, yellow).