They will present a proposal to place one in the municipality

By Luis Felipe Rodriguez

The historic center of San Miguel de Allende was classified as a Zone of Historic Monuments in 1982. It became a UNESCO Heritage site. According to Dr. Francisco López Morales: “The study that founded the file for the application of the Protective Village of San Miguel el Grande, and the Santuario de Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco, to be included in the World Heritage addressed an exhaustive, thorough, and rigorous review of this historical complex, based in documentary sources of local, regional, and national historical archives of Mexico and Spain. The research addressed precisely the specificity and original character of San Miguel el Grande as a protective village of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (The Royal Inland Road), one of the first cultural itineraries opened by the Spaniards in the interior of the American continent, and as an average city located in the Mexican Bajío.”

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