Ayuntamiento de pueblo

Ayuntamiento de pueblo
 

Hi., friends, I know the word "ayuntamiento" but I am wοndering if together with the word "pueblo" makes any distinction. Is anybody there to help me ?thanks in advance.kATERINA:worried:

Yes. The English equivalent is the town's municipal building.

PS Some foreign-born latinos I know use edificio municipal, and don't know
the term ayuntamiento

Without context I would guess that it's to distinguish from the ayuntamiento of the nearby city.

I would take it as being from a small town.

In Spain, all towns with more that one hundred inhabitants have "Ayuntamiento". :)

Usually, a "ciudad" is bigger than a "pueblo" and the last one is rural. Sometimes the boundaries between a "ciudad" and a "pueblo are not clear.

:)

aldea? :)

Aldea is very small. It doesn't have "Ayuntamiento". :)

I said what I said (popeye anyone?) because there shouldn't be a difference between an small town city hall with that of a big city. Unfortunately in real life there is...

How shall I put it...

I agree, but there are. :(

Maybe we should ask Keterina about the phrase she saw this "ayuntamiento (de) pueblo" :)

Aquí la diferencia es que si vas al ayuntamiento de un pueblo no tendrás que hacer cola durante hora y media y pasar por un arco detector de metales.

Not only that, but in a small town, most likely the mayor will treat people differently...;)

In a small town you might meet the mayor occasionally. I have seen the mayor of Valencia a couple of times, but only from a distance when she watches big events from a balcony.

Smaller town.

ayuntamiento del pueblo
 

Thank you for all contributions.The text has no more information .I suppoose you are right it;s just a small town's Mayor's House.
Thank you

Yes it is the building where the mayor works, but figuratively it may also
mean the local government.
Much like in English, we say city hall. It means the building where local
government is conducted, but it figuratively means the local government itself.

city hall
town hall
village hall ?????
Is the last one correct?

Well, a 'village hall' is a multi-purpose building in a village for meetings and parties. There would be no local government office there. So it's not really correct. If it has some kind of office in it, then it has to be a Town Hall.

I may be very late about this, but "de pueblo" often has a pejorative meaning to express contempt and underline the "inferiority" of a small town when compared to a big city. The big city is supposed to handle much money, better educated leaders, more access to technology and development, while a small town is usually associated to being poor, underdeveloped, uneducated, etc.

So "ayuntamiento de pueblo" may well refer to the characteristic resource-lacking governmental institutions in a small town.

:):):)