The official seat of the Venezuelan presidency, on Avenida Urdaneta on the north-west edge of the colonial centre. The building was begun in 1884 as the private mansion of a Caracas grandee and converted to presidential use in 1911. The façade is an unfussy late-nineteenth-century classical block; the more interesting interior — patios, frescoes, the Salón Boyacá — is rarely open.
For most visitors Miraflores is something you see from the outside through the railings — but the perimeter is heavily guarded and photography is restricted, so look but do not linger. The palace has been a touchstone of every Venezuelan political confrontation since its conversion, most recently during the protests of 2014, 2017, and 2019.