[1] While the Constitutive Charter granted by the Catholic Monarchs on 20 September 1500 has been traditionally framed by most authors as the point of origin of the city's municipal regime, the document has been more recently argued to rather be a reform or restructuration of preexisting political realities.

[2] The latter royal stipulations established a municipal institutional structure consisting of 1 corregidor, 24 regidores and 2 ordinary alcaldes, remaining a corregimiento from then on for most of the Early Modern period.

[1] Throughout this period, the number of regidores ranged from 44 (1587) to 15 (1787),[3] while a military background (capa y espada) prevailed vis-à-vis the extraction of the monarch-appointed corregidor, the highest ranking official.

Carazo increased the PP's number of seats from 7 to 14, ganing her a slim majority and making her the first female mayor of the city.

[11] The city hall is located at a building in the plaza del Carmen, the undemolished part of a convent of female Discalced Carmelites where the municipal premises were moved to from the old Madrasah of Granada in 1858 following the ecclesial desamortización.