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About San Miguel de Allende Ciudad de San Miguel de Allende

    While walking through the streets of San Miguel de Allende, radiant city of beautiful constructions and multiple archaeological vestiges, time seems to stop. Such is the atmosphere that surrounds this city located in the state of Guanajuato, inviting its visitors to the grandiose opportunity of going back to a rich historical past and, at the same time, appreciate the intensity with which flourish the many cultural manifestations that makes of the destination one of the most interesting and splendid places of the Mexican Republic.

    The tolteca power resounded on the soil where centuries later would remain as inheritors of their warrior glory the copuces, guamares and guachichiles, nomad organization groups known as chichimecas, that by the XIII Century of our era occupied those lands for their ulterior exploitation, although always dependent on nature’s vicissitudes. The agriculture,  key for the development of a society of a more elevated organization, was not to manifest itself until the arrival for the Spanish in the times of colonization.
By 1555 the King Don Luis de Velazco ordered the foundation of a vi . . .

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