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Once past Celaya’s unprepossessing industrial outskirts, the visitor finds a spaciously laid out historic center of parks and plazas,...

Before the Spanish conquest, when it bordered the banks of an ancient lake, Acámbaro was a key link in the chain of garrison towns protect...

Most visitors to the historic pueblo of Dolores Hidalgo, north of San Miguel de Allende, go to see the magnificent baroque parish church (se...

Guanajuato has been in the news recently because of internecine cartel violence, further discouraging visitors to the state. Here and in for...

Huatatlauca, from the Relaciones Geográficas (16th century) Located in the Atlixco valley of southern Puebla state, this ancient communi...

In our earlier post on the  main altarpiece of the  Third Order chapel,  we noted that it contains  only  sculptures. However there are als...

In a previous posts we noted paintings by members  of a prominent family of poblano artists, los Talavera, some of whom also worked in Oaxa...