Alhóndiga de Granaditas

The Alhóndiga de Granaditas is a neoclassical grain warehouse completed in 1809 in the heart of Guanajuato, Mexico. On September 28, 1810, it became the site of the first major battle of Mexico's War of Independence: a miner known as El Pípila reportedly torched the building's heavy wooden doors, allowing Hidalgo's insurgents to overwhelm the loyalist Spanish garrison inside. After the war, the severed heads of independence leaders Hidalgo, Allende, Aldama, and Jiménez were displayed in iron cages on its four corners for a decade as a colonial warning. The building now houses a regional history museum featuring murals by José Chávez Morado depicting the colonial era and independence struggle. It forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed historic city of Guanajuato, inscribed in 1988.