Mansion
After settling in Gibraltar, Cardozo had a mansion built at John Mackintosh Square as his family home. The three-storey building was completed in 1819 and was the grandest private mansion ever seen in Gibraltar dominating John Mackintosh Square.
It was erected on the site of the old hospital and chapel of La Santa Misericordia (English: The Holy Mercy) and later prison. As a non Protestant, Cardozo was not legally allowed to own property in Gibraltar at the time. However, as he had been a close friend of Nelson and had supplied his fleet, he was eventually granted a site to build a house in the Alameda on the condition that it be "an ornament" to the square. Its cost was about £40,000.
Today, Cardozo's mansion has become the Gibraltar City Hall and houses the Mayor's Parlour.
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