New Route for Sunday’s Allende Parade

The new route of the parade that will take place on Sunday, January 21, will leave from the Aurora neighborhood, passing through the Municipal Palace to continue its route through Zacateros, Ancha de San Antonio and culminate in the Cardo

Published January 19, 2024

This year, the city of San Miguel de Allende celebrates the 225th anniversary of the birth of Don Ignacio Allende y Unzaga. It’s not just anything, in the city (considered a World Heritage Site) they will celebrate with festivities that will fill the days and nights with colors and fun.

The Municipal Government, through the Directorate of Culture and Traditions, presented the program of civic and cultural events in honor of the birth day of the greatest hero of Independence. There will be many activities, but the most important is the traditional Great Military and Civic Parade.

Great Military and Civic Parade will have a new route
The new route of the parade that will take place on Sunday, January 21, will leave from the Aurora neighborhood, passing through the Municipal Palace to continue its route through Zacateros, Ancha de San Antonio and culminate in the Cardo. It will begin at 10:30 a.m. and public and private educational institutions, civil associations, rural parades and local (Secretariat of Citizen Security) and foreign (Sedena) security elements will be participating.

The other activities
In the Main Garden there will be a series of cultural presentations (wind bands, folkloric ballet and mariachi) this Friday the 19th, at 7 p.m. sharp. On Saturday, January 20, the unique Torchlight Parade will take place at 8:00 p.m., which revives the moment in which Ignacio Allende calls the people of San Miguel to fight for Free Mexico.

On Sunday, January 21, the birth of the eponymous hero of this city, a mass will be offered in the iconic parish of San Miguel Arcángel at 8 a.m., followed by a Commemorative Civic Act in the Civic Plaza, known as the Plaza del Caballo that guards the statue of Allende and Unzaga, and later the Great Military and Civic Parade along the aforementioned route.

This series of festivities will close with a flourish with a fireworks show in the evening.

Honoring the memory of the greatest hero of Free Mexico, the Government of San Miguel will offer a civic and cultural poster to extol the legacy of the character who marked San Miguel de Allende as an example of brave men who have made Mexico better every day.

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