Queretaro Attractions

Queretaro State - Capital

Aqueduct

The aqueduct is the symbol and pride of Queretaro. It is considered the most important urban work of the eighteenth century and was built in order to canalize the water for the city. This majestic construction began in 1726 and took 9 years to be completed.

The aqueduct features 74 arches reaching up to 23 meters high and measuring up to 1280 meters long. It is made of pink quarry and stone work in the arcade. Currently, the water continues to arrive to the city through it and is stored into 10 public fountains and 60 private ones, which are situated all around the city. The construction of the 70 fountains ended in 1738.

Queretaro Museum of Art

The former San Agustin Convent is located over Allende Street in the historic center. This museum exhibits pictorial and sculptural works from the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The different national and foreign art schools of those times are shown in this museum through its masterpieces. The temporary exhibition hall is open to the most recent trends in the plastic arts. The architectural art used to build this convent is one of the most representative examples of the Latin American baroque, for which is considered one more thing to admire when visiting Queretaro.

City Museum

The “Museo de la Ciudad” is situated inside the former Convent of the Capuchin Nuns of San Jose de Garcia. This building dates from 1771; it was used as barracks during the application of the Reforma laws in 1861. This art house features different cultural elements that allow the appreciation of the Queretaro history, transporting you through time. The exhibition halls show continuous artistic and cultural contemporary tendencies. Nowadays, several high quality artistic works are exhibited.

Cerro de las Campanas

This place of great historic importance was scene of the end of the struggle between the Republic and the Spanish Empire. During the Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg times, his generals Miguel Miramon and Tomas Mejia were executed in this place, obeying orders of the War Court. This event caused the victory of the Republic, declaring this way, our country's sovereignty. In this park is located the commemorative chapel of the execution of Maximilian of Austria, which was built in 1901 by the Austrian government; nowadays, it is opened to the public. In 1967, the Mexican government built here a monumental statue of the president Benito Juarez.

Currently, the “Cerro de las Campanas” (the Bells Hill), is a recreational place for amusement with wide green spaces, games, an artificial lake, a theater and a tiny museum named “Museo del Sitio”, that features documents reproductions, pictures and other items of the Second Empire times.