Full Day in Guanajuato departure from San Miguel de Allende

Monumento Al Pipila

A colossal monument dominating all of Guanajuato. Among stories and legends it is said that what Pípila did changed the history of Mexico. With a brand in hand and carrying a slab, the miner Juan José de los Reyes Martínez Amaro, who was called "Pípila", managed to reach the door of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas on September 28, 1810 and set it on fire. That decided the fight in favor of the insurgents and ignited the libertarian movement throughout New Spain. Guanajuato did not forget its hero. In 1939, this enormous sculpture in his honor was inaugurated at the top of the Cerro de San Miguel. Designed by the artist Juan Fernando Olaguíbel, also author of the famous Diana Cazadora and made in quarry by Agustín Gutiérrez.

Although few know it, Guanajuato is full of secret roads, tunnels, alleys and passageways. And it is that in this city every corner has a legend and a multitude of cobbled arteries full of forks and mysterious nooks that were made at another time in history. These inadvertent paths (which are almost always under our feet) make the city perfect to get lost and understand an essential part of what Mexico is.

Teatro Juarez

The Juárez Theater is one of the most beautiful venues of its kind in the country. Its construction began in 1873 under the auspices of General Florencio Antillón on the land originally occupied by the old convent of San Diego de Alcalá, demolished in 1861 as a result of the Reform Laws that among other things promoted the confiscation ecclesiastical property.