Querétaro - Cute and Close to Mexico City
Querétaro (ka-ret-a-row), was important in México's early independence movement in 1810. Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez, wife of Querétaro's mayor notified fellow revolutionaries that their plans had been discovered. This prompted Father Miguel Hidalgo in the nearby town of Dolores to call his people to rise up in arms (the famous "Grito de Dolores"), beginning the war that eventually led to México's independence.
Important treaties have been signed in Querétaro, and it was here that the Emperor Maximiliano, sent by France to rule over México, was put to death. In 1917, towards the end of the Mexican Revolution, the nation's constitution was written in Querétaro's Teatro de la República.
