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About Guanajuato City Ciudad de Guanajuato, Gto.
Located at the bottom of a deep valley, expanding towards the hillside of the mountain, shines a city with an out of line aesthetic of outstanding imagination and beauty. The buildings follow each other some with different shapes and dimensions, and others giving way to the lavishness of different façades where stones adorn palaces and big houses with an old presence. Guanajuato is an incomparable city: a historic jewel of Mexico where the arts and culture spring in various rich ways, resounding in echoes of tremendous range through the passing of the new generations.
According to some etymologists, the name Guanajuato comes from the tarascan term “Quanashuato”, a term composed by “Quanas”, frogs and “Huuato” mountainous place, while the particle “To”, implies the abundance of something. It is understood that the meaning of Quanashuato is the “mountainous place where there are alot of frogs” or simply “place full of frogs”. By the way, it is important to mention that the effigy of that batrachian, curiously molded in two enormous rocks due to the e . . .
Alhondiga de Granaditas Ciudad de: guanajuato
This large building was originally a warehouse and wholesale marketplace and was built in the early nineteenth century.
In 1810 the royalist forces and the Spaniards take refuge here from the attack of the forces under the command of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, but the revolutionary could enter and took the fort. In fact the figure of a miner that they called "The Pipila" was essential in this battle, because he himself set fire to the door and entered, protected by a large stone, helping his comrades to get in. In this fight many died including the one who built the Alhondiga, the mayor Juan Antonio Riaño y Barcena.
This place was in the hands of the insurgents until after the battle of Aculco when Allende decided to leave Guanajuato and the city stayed without any authority and prisoners were released.
In 1811 some leaders of Independence were killed and decapitated and heads of Aldama, Allende, Mariano Jimenez and the very Hidalgo were hung in every corner of the Alhondiga to show the all "no Spanish" rebel what might happen to them.
After the war, the building was conver . . .
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