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The building dates back to the 19th century when the Jesuits began their educational work in New Spain, with the foundation of the Colegio Máximo de San Pedro, San Pablo. From the merger of the seminaries of San Bernardo, San Miguel and San Gregorio was born in 1583, the Colegio de San Ildefonso so that all the students were under the tutelage of a single rector, around 1618 it began to operate under the royal patronage granted by Philip III. The building was rebuilt in the first 4 decades of the XVIII century, being a project of the architect Pedro de Arrieta, who also designed the Palace of the Inquisition today Palace of Medicine, giving place to the building that we know today and that is one of the most outstanding examples of the Hispanic Novo Baroque of the civil architecture of Mexico City. In September 1910, it became the National Preparatory School, and it was not until 1982 when the building became a historical, artistic and building. In 1992, the architect Ricardo Legorreta finished the intervention on the building and from that moment on, it became one of the most important cultural precincts in the country.