built in Baroque style between 1685 and 1719. It was in this place where the meetings of the Cortes Generales took place from 1811 during the Napoleonic invasion of Spain and where the first Spanish constitution was proclaimed, the Constitution of 1812 , notable for its markedly liberal character.Ruined by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 , whose effects reached here, the double-span, eight-windowed dome would be rebuilt , in 1764, The building had this large group of young men outside.