Querétaro - Government Palace

(Local Name: Palacio de Gobierno (Casa de la Corregidora)) The Palacio de Gobierno or Casa de la Corregidora (Government Palace), an attractive building dating from 1770 with wrought-iron balconies, is situated on the Avenida 5 de Mayo and the Plaza de la Independencia. Here Josefa Ortíz de Domínguez, the wife of the mayor ("Corregidor"), warned the conspirators in the 1810 independence movement of the discovery of their plans, which led to the premature outbreak of the War of Independence.