Teatro de la República

Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Teatro de la República, originally called Teatro Iturbide, stands in the historic center of Querétaro, Mexico, as a neoclassical theater built between 1845 and 1852 under architect Camilo San Germán during the city's recovery from the Mexican War of Independence. The three-story interior accommodates five hundred seats. Renamed in 1922, the theater carries profound historical significance: it hosted the trial of Maximilian I in 1867, where he was sentenced to death, and most notably, it was the site where the Mexican Constitution was drafted in 1917, after which it took its current name. The theater's ceiling was destroyed in 1864 during the Siege of Querétaro for its lead content and was subsequently restored. The names of constitutional signatories are inscribed in gold letters on the wall behind the stage, and the building now contains a museum dedicated to the Constituent Congress of 1917. In 2016, the Senate of the Republic purchased the theater from the Josefa Vergara Foundation for one hundred million Mexican pesos in preparation for the Constitution's centennial celebrations.

Type: theatre building, opera house
Place: Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

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