Urban Planning, Silver and Fiestas! [] Joseph Toone
News Category: News and Community News
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Published June 5, 2021
San Miguel de Allende is a marvelously preserved colonial town because of its strategic geographic point in Colonial Mexico and the formation of a unique creole culture kept alive in our ceremonial fiestas and fireworks. The religious and civil architecture, combined with the colonial era layout of town, continues to influence both what and how we celebrate.
San Miguel was on the border of the Spanish empire with mining communities lying above us and former Mesoamerican sites of power and influence below. San Miguel sat on the Silver Route, or the North/South spine for getting silver to Spain and supplies to the mines. Not only was the town not built on top of a former Mesoamerican urban site, but we featured an Hispanic, not pre-Hispanic, name (for example, Guanajuato or Queretaro versus San Miguel).
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