Beautiful square surrounded by Laurel de la india, witness to the conspiracy of Querétaro in the fight for independence

We pass through the neighborhood of La Cruz, which was one of the oldest in the city where an indigenous population lived. The Convent keeps the legend of the tree with thorns in the shape of a Cross, in the s. XVIII captured the water that came from the construction of the aqueduct to later distribute it to the population. In the S. XIX was the headquarters and later the prison of Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg before he was shot on the hill of the Bells.