Philip IV commissioned the Palacio de Santa Cruz, the Palace of the Holy Cross, in Madrid in 1629, to house courts and jail facilities. Juan Gómez de Mora worked on it from 1629 to 1636, and José de Villareal, Bartolomé Hurtado García and José del Olmo later added elements. The article describes the style as Baroque.
It was used as a jail until Philip IV's reign, when it was converted into a palace. In 1767 it changed from a jail to the Palacio de Santa Cruz, because of its proximity to the Santa Cruz church. A fire in 1791 destroyed all but the facade, which is the only major part that survived.
The building houses the Spanish Foreign Ministry today. It was listed in the Spanish Cultural Heritage register as a non-movable monument in 1996.
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