Cádiz City Hall has been located in the same place since the 16th century. The building, dating from 1799, was renovated and replaced by the current one at the end of the 17th century.
The building is the result of designs by Pedro Ángel Albisu and Torcuato Bejumedo and follows the prevailing academic aesthetic of the time. Construction was completed in 1865 by Manuel García del Álamo. The façade rises above a plain portico, supported by semicircular arches, with a large balcony featuring Ionic columns in the center of a giant order, crowned by a triangular pediment in which the relief of Hercules, the mythical founder of the city, stands out. The tower replicates the characteristics of the one on the previous building, a structure consisting of three Mannerist-style sections. The first section has a square floor plan, flanked by statues of the city's patron saints: Saint Servando and Saint Germán. The next section, which rests on the first, has an octagonal floor plan, crowned by a niche supported by Ionic columns and a hemispherical dome, which houses the bell. The fully decorated facade of the building uses several elements that refer to the history and commercial character of the city.