Alhondiga de Granaditas

The Alhondiga de Granaditas is an old grain storage building in Guanajuato City, Mexico. This historical constructing turned into created to replace an antique grain trade close to the metropolis's river. The call Alhondiga interprets kind of from both Arabic and Spanish as grain marketplace or warehouse. It is equivalent to the nearby grain exchange. Its construction lasted from 1798 to 1809, via orders of Juan Antonio de Riano y Barcena, a Spaniard who became the quartermaster of the city throughout the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla helped build it. The constructing received World Heritage listing as part of the Historic Town of Guanajuato in 1988.

When Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's rebel troops threatened to take over this town all through the Mexican War of Independence, Riano secured himself inside the Grain Exchange on 28 September 1810, in conjunction with many other Spaniards and a few wealthy criollos. There were about 300 loyalists who took refuge from 20,000 rebels led through Hidalgo. Riano believed that the power of the building, it’s enough elements and its positioning could make it easy to repel the insurgents' attacks.