La Aurora was once San Miguel’s most important industrial operations center
The La Aurora textile factory was one of San Miguel de Allende’s most important industrial operations from its opening in 1902 to its closure in 1991. In 2004, it was reinaugurated in its current form as something of an art shopping mall. This iteration of La Aurora was spearheaded by Francisco Garay and a number of San Miguel’s North American More...
Come to San Miguel and see for yourself…
Just for a weekend or a long vacation, at any time of the year, San Miguel de Allende, in Guanajuato, awaits its visitors to fall in love with one of the best cities in the world. San Miguel de Allende, nestled More...
Is San Miguel de Allende Mexico’s Cultural Capital par excellence?
No one I spoke to in San Miguel de Allende knew it had been chosen as 2019’s Cultural Capital of the Americas. Even the tourist office seemed non-plussed. ‘No we don’t have any extra events or activities More...
Happy New Year San Miguel de Allende!
San Miguel de Allende is one of the most charming cities in the state of Guanajuato. Thousands of people, having learned about its many attractive and suggestive surroundings, have already made San Miguel de Allende More...
Bringing in the New Year San Miguel Style
Bring in the new year enjoying San Miguel’s unique mixing of the indigenous and Spanish roots in today’s holiday celebrations on December 31st at 9:30am. Led by Joseph Toone, author of the best-selling book More...
SMA your favorite “away from home” Christmas holiday destination
Don’t we all have our favorite “away from home” Christmas and holiday stories? Here are some precious memories of mine in Mexico, plus a few enticing travel ideas for your holiday season. No, it’s not too More...
Fight or flee
So I’ve been reading Sr. Wendy books on art lately and came across a cool painting of Joseph and Mary’s trip into Egypt to escape King Herod’s murderous rampage of all the boys under two. More...
Christmas is coming to San Miguel!
If you typically use vacation days to visit friends and family for Christmas and New Year’s, you may be craving a real vacation. While spending the holidays with the ones you love is essential, alternate More...
The Colonial Era of San Miguel had many unique Christmas traditions.
Posadas were introduced by the Franciscans in San Miguel Viejo featuring images of Mary and Joseph that traveled to nine homes of wealthy Spanish nine days leading up to Christmas. The ultimate day, statues were More...
Mexican Nativity Secrets
As an avid reader of the International Creche Herald (don’t scoff, it exists) I’ve long been fascinated by nativity sets and the variety of ways they tell the story of Jesus’ birth. Suffice to say I was More...
