When I took Fernando to Guanajuato
A Shrine To Santa Lucia
St. Lucia is the patron saint of eyes. The story is told that
she was very beautiful, and had many suitors. One of them said that
he had fallen uncontrollably in love with her eyes. She...
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Link to clickable interactive map of Guanajuato state: Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende
Clickable interactive map of Guanajuato state: Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende
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Church Of Our Lord Of Villaseca
Cata, Guanajuato
This is part of one wall of the church in Cata, near the town of Guanajuato. When I visited in 1996, the walls were completely covered with exvotos to a height o...
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The beautiful Mexican colonial city of Guanajuato
Nestled in the mountains of the Sierra de Guanajuato is the picturesque city of Guanajuato. Its name originates from the word Quanax-juato which, in the indigenous dialect of the region, meant "Place of Frogs" - because the indigenous tribes thought the place was fit only for frogs!
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Guanajuato
Narrow, serpentine streets. Old world baroque buildings. Steep hills - shoehorned with vivid-colored casas. I have dropped into a spectacular place - a cross between San Francisco and Paris. ...
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The Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato
Guanajuato is, and has been for a long time, a centre of culture and education. In one way or another, it has always been prosperous, either through the richness of its farmland or its mines. There was...
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Guanajuato's sonic landscape
Sometime during my first month in Guanajuato, the idea floated into my head of writing an article about the sonic landscape of the city. This of course includes a great deal of music, since it resounds...
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Life and music in Guanajuato
The city of Guanajuato is nestled in a sort of steep basin in the Sierra Madre Mountains and spreads up around the center of the basin. Imagine a huge, terraced rice paddy such as we've seen in photos ...
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Baseball In Guanajuato
Judy pounds on my bedroom door, waking me from a very sound sleep. After all, it's only 7 a.m.
"Yeah." I say.
"There's a scorpion in the bathroom."
Silence.
"Jim!"
"So kill it."
"Killing scorpion...
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The Mummies of Guanajuato: Powerful Memento Mori
A most unusual museum crowns the top of Trozado Hill in Guanajuato, Mexico. Its collection of objects - mummified human corpses - serves to provide funds for social assistance in the city, and as a pow...
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Guanajuato
This past weekend was really great. Mary woke me up Saturday morning at the crack of 9:30. We were on the road by 10:30 heading toward a town named Guanajuato (pronounced Gwana-wat-o, it’s spelled ju...
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Artesania: Behind the Scenes in San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato
Admit it. Next to simmering on the beach or sunning poolside slathered in oil, you visit Mexico to shop. In fact, if you’re a real shopper you bypass beach resorts altogether. On at least one trip ea...
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