This week I have the pleasure to share with you the trip that I did the last week-end. But since in Mexico, everything is an excuse to go party, celebrations continue the entire week-end. So, more than a day, I lived a complete week-end of festivities on the colors of Mexico. He actually sympathized with the Mexican Independence movement, act of treason which led him to his capture and execution by Spanish Colonial authorities in the state of Chihuahua.
San Miguel de Allende has received different names along the time. Then, the Spanish gave it the name of San Miguel el Grande who refers to the founder of the city. After the Independence War the city was in danger to turn into a ghost town. But foreign artists discovered its colonial architecture both baroque and neoclassical built by Spanish and decided to move in.
They actually started to work there, developing artistic and cultural institutions such as the Instituto Allende and the Escuela de Bellas Artes. The town attracted foreign art students and for the anecdote US soldiers studying through the G. Bill after the Second World War. Today we find in San Miguel de Allende a lot of foreign retirees American and European , artists, writers and tourists. But what about experiencing a trip to San Miguel?
First, who says trip says preparing your bag, waking up early when everybody is still sleeping and the sky still dark, taking the road, stopping in gasoline station to have a coffee and grabbing a cereal bar. We have to count 7 hours from Monterrey 9 to go back when the road is even less practicable and that you have to pass by different military controls but if you leave early enough you can manage to arrive around 2 pm in San Miguel, that gives you the opportunity to enjoy your day.
I am usually pretty organized but in this case I just noted few places that I wanted to see because my main goal was to take my time and breathe. Instead of this, I will propose you my list: This is THE hotel where to stay.
