Alhondiga de Granaditas

Alhondiga de Granaditas is a constructing built within the metropolis of Guanajuato, in the nation of Guanajuato, Mexico, at the cease of the 18th century, all through the viceroyalty, firstly used as a warehouse and grain shop.

It turned into one of the fundamental and first stages of the Mexican independence warfare, on the grounds that at some stage in the assault by using the insurgent military at the metropolis of Guanajuato, peninsular families took safe haven inside it and the royalist troops have been quartered, so it become besieged by way of revolt troops led by means of Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla and Ignacio Allende, 3 assault that lasted until the constructing changed into taken and massacred its occupants on September 28, 1810, thanks to a person referred to as El Pipila, who allowed get admission to the alhondiga with the aid of burning its doors, after going through a hail of bullets overlaying his back with a stone slab. Since 1958 it's been operating n the building of the Regional Museum of Guanajuato Alhondiga de Granaditas. The construction began in 1796, by using order of Viceroy Miguel de Los Angeles Grua Talamanca de Carini y Branciforte, designed with the aid of the architect Jose Del Mazo and Aviles.