Visit Querétaro

Sightseeing Spots

  • Acueducto de Querétaro
  • Centro de Querétaro (Downtown)
  • Cerro de las Campanas
  • Jardín Guerrero
  • Jardín Zenea
  • Museo Casa de la Zacatecana
  • Museo de la ciudad
  • Museo Regional de Querétaro
  • Parroquia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús
  • Plaza de Armas
  • Templo de la Congregación
  • Templo de San Agustín
  • Templo de Santa Rosa de Viterbo
  • Templo de San Francisco
  • Templo de Teresita
  • Templo y ex convento de la Cruz

Neighbor City of Querétaro

  • Peña de Bernal
  • Sierra Gorda de Querétaro
  • Tequisquiapan

Architectural Sites

  • El Cerrito
  • Ranas
  • Toluquilla

Cuisine

Traditional Dishes

  • Cecina Seca con Naranja Agria - dried pork with bitter orange
  • Huaraches - oblong item about ten inches long made of fried masa and stuffed with yellowish bean paste, and liberally garnished
  • Sopa de elote - sweetcorn soup, in season
  • Tamales de Fresa - Strawberry tamales; also tamales of guava (guayaba), garbanzo, and peanut (cacahuate)

Sweets

  • Camote - candied sweet- potato cut into bars and wrapped in paper
  • Capirotada - especially found during Lent, a white-bread pudding with various combinations of ingredients, such as cheese, tomato, peanuts, raisins, and biznaga cactus, all covered with syrup
  • Jamoncillo - finely ground nuts or seeds, especially pumpkin, pine-nuts, or peanuts, prepared with milk and sugar
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