Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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City and Municipality in Querxc3xa9taro, Mexico | WIKI |
The city is a strong business and economic centre[2][4][5] and a vigorous service center that is experiencing an ongoing social and economic revitalization. | WIKI |
The city is the fastest-growing in the country, basing its economy on IT and data centers, logistics services, aircraft manufacturing and maintenance, call centers, the automotive and machinery industries, and the production of chemicals and food products. | WIKI |
Statue of Otomi trader, Conxc3xadn de Xilotepeque, (also known as Hernando de Tapia), founder of the city. | WIKI |
[6] This event is why the city is called Santiago (Saint James) de Querxc3xa9taro, with James as patron saint. | WIKI |
[6] Bocanegra at first tried non-violent means of subduing the area and founding a Spanish city. | WIKI |
[6] Conxc3xadn separated the indigenous and Spanish residents of the new city, with the indigenous on and around Sangremal hill and the Spanish around where the current historic center is. | WIKI |
[6] The Spanish part of the city was laid out by D. Juan Sanchez de Alaniz,[3] and the indigenous section was laid out in the traditional Otomi manner. | WIKI |
The first city council convened in 1535, and the settlement was named a Pueblo de Indios (Indian Village) in 1537, ending the encomiendas. | WIKI |
[6] Few of the buildings from the 16th century have remained intact, due to the violence during the city's initial development, which reached its peak in the 17th century. | WIKI |
As a result, most of the city's oldest structures are of Baroque style. | WIKI |
She was the wife of the city's mayor, called a corregidor, at the beginning of the 19th century. | WIKI |
[14] Once the armed battle began, the city was taken by the royalist army and was the last major city to be taken by the insurgents. | WIKI |
After the end of the war, Santiago de Querxc3xa9taro became the capital of the state of Querxc3xa9taro in 1823, with the first state congress convening at the Auditorium of the Instituto de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Autxc3xb3noma de Querxc3xa9taro in the city. | WIKI |
The state's first constitution was promulgated in the city in 1825, with the city as head of one of the state's six districts. | WIKI |
One year later, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in this city, ceding almost half of Mexico's territory and ending the war. | WIKI |
In 1916, the city was again named the capital of the country due to the Tampico Affair. | WIKI |
Glassworking made Querxc3xa9taro an economic center in the 1700s, and glass crafting is still a trade mark of the city today. | WIKI |
Today, Querxc3xa9taro is a middle class city in terms of PPP GDP, with $20,000,[19] The municipality of Querxc3xa9taro was ranked 23rd in Mexico on the United Nations Index of Human Development. | WIKI |
Until the 1970s, agriculture had been the overwhelming basis of the economy of the municipality outside the city and commerce within it. | WIKI |
Since then, the expansion of industry and the growth of the city, which started in the 1950s, have diminished the importance of agriculture and the land available for it. | WIKI |
Major employers now are the industrial parks that surround the city and extend to San Juan del Rxc3xado. | WIKI |
Querxc3xa9taro's economic growth is above the national average, due in part, the city believes, to the investment that it makes in infrastructure, public services and the creation of parks as well as sports and cultural facilities. | WIKI |
The economy spurs immigration to the city, which has seen a population growth of more than 3.5 percent a year. | WIKI |
This has led to an explosion of informal markets and other businesses in and around the city. | WIKI |
[6] Tourism has grown as a sector of the economy, especially in the city proper, and is now one of the most important, accounting for 21 percent of the gross product of the city. | WIKI |
According to the Secretarxc3xada de Desarrollo Sustenable Municipal, the city is expected to increase in size 35 percent over the next 20 to 25 years. | WIKI |
The Neptune fountain, a symbol of the city | WIKI |
The Festival of Santiago de Querxc3xa9taro is an annual arts and cultural event that takes place in the city for eight days during Holy Week. | WIKI |
The events are held in various locations, such as the City Museum, the Guerrero Garden, the Zenea Garden and the Rosalio Solano Theatre as well as the various plazas around the city center. | WIKI |
The festival is held during Holy Week holiday to attract Mexican and international visitors to the city. | WIKI |
One final day, there is a culinary event were visitors can sample regional cuisine from restaurants of the city. | WIKI |
The part of Federal Highway 57 that crosses the city is called Blvd. | WIKI |
Bernardo Quintana, and this is the main road of the city, stretching from its southernmost part near City Hall, to the new industrial areas northwest of downtown. | WIKI |
Federal Highway 45 crosses the city, south of downtown. | WIKI |
The railway line that connects Mexico City with western Mexico bisects the city. | WIKI |
When completed, it will join Bernardo Quintana on its southeastern part, go around the city in its southwestern and western parts, and reach the northern suburb of Santa Rosa Jauregui. | WIKI |
These cover 123 authorized routes all neighborhoods of the city. | WIKI |
[34] The city also has a large inter-city bus terminal. | WIKI |
Fernando Espinoza Gutixc3xa9rrez International Airport in the city. | WIKI |
The city and its surroundings are home to some of the most important universities in Mexico. | WIKI |
Also, the city is home to more than seven research centers. | WIKI |
The city has one of the most modern stadiums in Mexico, the Estadio Corregidora, built for the FIFA World Cup celebrated in 1986. | WIKI |
One of the most popular sports in the city is bullfighting. | WIKI |
San Gil and Tequisquiapan are located near the city itself. | WIKI |
There are two wrestling or Lucha Libre Arenas in the city, the Arena Querxc3xa9taro that has matches from the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, the Desastre Total Ultraviolento, and the Auditorio Arteaga a multipurpose venue that presents AAA fights. | WIKI |
The Auditorio Arteaga also serves as Basketball stadium for the city team Libertadores and for traditional wrestling, volleyball and other sports. | WIKI |
The Auditorio Josefa Ortiz is the largest multipurpose venue in the city, it serve for tennis matches (Davis Cup), Tae Kwon Do, Table Tennis, and other sports, it has a capacity of 6000 seated in stadium formation. | WIKI |
Other sport facilities in the city include: | WIKI |
Centro Histxc3xb3rico: it includes downtown and nearby areas, it is surrounded by the city's main thoroughfares (Blvd. | WIKI |
Most of the city's monuments are located here, including the UNESCO World Heritage Site designated areas, and the Cerro de las Campanas where Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg was executed. | WIKI |
Felix Osores Sotomayor: most of the recent growth in the city has taken place here, the population growth rate estimated at 6%. | WIKI |
The eastern area is urban and integrated with the rest of the city, with industrial zones (Kellogg's) and military facilities. | WIKI |
The mayor of each borough, called delegado, is appointed by the mayor of the city, although there have been attempts to make these posts popularly elected. | WIKI |
Near the city is the Sierra Gorda de Querxc3xa9taro, part of the Sierra Madre Oriental, was declared by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve. | WIKI |
The city is known for its many Jacaranda trees | WIKI |
This peace and similarity of social integration is largely attributed to the fact that the local Indigenous ethnicities and Spanish reached peace early after contact and both functioned concurrently with the Indigenous retaining their own economic and social systems while the Criollos operated in a separate but integrated society within the city. | WIKI |
The city is notable for the many ornate civil and religious Baroque monuments from its golden age in the 17th and 18th centuries"[38] In 2008, National Geographic Traveler listed Querxc3xa9taro as one of the top 15 historic destinations of the world. | WIKI |
The city aqueduct. | WIKI |
The most prominent feature of the city is the enormous aqueduct of Querxc3xa9taro, consisting of seventy-four arches, each twenty meters wide with a total extension of 1,280 meters and an average height of 23 meters. | WIKI |
[3] It was built by the Marquis Juan Antonio de Urrutia y Arana between 1726 and 1738 at the request of the nuns of the Santa Clara Convent to bring water to the residents of the city from La Caxc3xb1ada. | WIKI |
A group of actors guide visitors through the streets of the city narrating stories about what has happened in these places. | WIKI |
This has happened frequently in the city; those Baroque altars not plundered over the course of Mexican history were replaced by newer designs. | WIKI |
Built between 1660 and 1698, the monastery it houses was the first in the city, built by Franciscans to evangelize the native populations here. | WIKI |
The Plaza de Independencia or Plaza de Armas is the oldest part of the city, and is filled with Indian laurel trees, surrounded by outdoor restaurants and colonial mansions. | WIKI |
[3] In the middle of this plaza is a fountain that honors Juan Antonio de Urrutia y Arana, who built that large aqueduct to bring water to the city. | WIKI |
Its name comes from its most famous occupant, Josefa Ortiz de Domxc3xadnguez, who was the wife of the mayor or corregidor of the city. | WIKI |
The facade shows the transition between Baroque and Neoclassical architecture, and is considered to be the last Baroque facade in the city. | WIKI |
The church and monastery of La Santa Cruz is on Sangremal Hill, where the appearance of Saint James is said to have occurred at the founding of the city and the cross commemorating the event is kept. | WIKI |
[3] Tours are available here and feature how the aqueduct brought water here to cisterns, from which the residents of the city would fill their buckets. | WIKI |
The Museo de la Ciudad (City Museum) is in the former Royal Convent of Santa Clara. | WIKI |
In the 18th century, sisters of the Capuchin order moved from Mexico City to Querxc3xa9taro to occupy this complex, which was built by the city for them. | WIKI |
This was done to show the city's economic strength as well as secure its social position in New Spain. | WIKI |
In 1997, the Museo de la Ciudad (Museum of the City), which belongs to the Instituto Queretano de la Cultura y las Artes (Querxc3xa9taro Institute of Culture and the Arts) was moved to this building, and is mostly dedicated to contemporary art. | WIKI |
The museum has exchange programs with Sweden and has established the Children's Library of the Museum of the City. | WIKI |
The city still contains a number of mansions from the colonial era, most of which have been converted into a number of uses. | WIKI |
A view of "Los Arcos" (the aqueduct) from a hill in the city. | WIKI |
Upon construction, the city quickly assumed a double pivotal role in the structure to the south-east that had to be crossed in order to reach the capital of New Spain and at the same time it was the boundary between the southern lands, gradually settled by the Spaniards, and the northern region, which was under the control of hostile nomad peoples such as the Chichimecas. | UNESCO |
These include its design, its plazas, open spaces such as Alameda,xc2xa0 neighbourhoods, the aqueduct, monuments and fountains, and civil and religious construction, that form a harmonious whole, with great consistency, unity and urban integrity, despite the changes that have occurred at different times in the city. | UNESCO |