The Instituto Allende Part II [] History of Art in San Miguel

Published February 5, 2024

The Instituto Allende began as the private home of Manuel Tomas de la Canal, and his wife Maria Hervas. But in the late 1800s, after the War of Independence the once grand estate became vacant and fell into ruin, with criminals and miscreants hiding out inside. Legends ran rampant about ghosts, and evil deeds in the house, and no woman would be found getting water at the fountain in front of Ancha or the one in front of Golpe de Vista, after the parish bells rang for evening prayers…The old palace remained in such a state until the 1940s.