Moving outward from the center, one passes from stately, ornamental 16th-century apartment buildings with shuttered windows, wrought-iron balconies, and brick facades to the Baroque palaces of the Bourbons, and later Neo-classical buildings meant to convey authority.
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The architecture of the city contains both elements of the 16th-century ornamental building and of the neo-classical public buildings.
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All the 16th century buildings were demolished and replaced by modern structures.