Guanajuato Culture and Sights

An interesting Mummy Museum! This is the location of the somewhat macabre Mummy Museum (Museo de las Momias). In a crypt, visitors can view glass cabinets containing more than 100 mummified corpses of ...

An opera house in the neo-classical style with Doric columns. Teatro Juárez starts at the pretty little city square (Jardín de la Unión) with the Teatro Juárez on the south side. It opened in 1903. Ins...

Under the arcades, awnings and bay trees plays out from public life. Until well into the night in the surrounding restaurants getafelt. A visit is worth the Posada Santa Fe, since 1862 a hotel.

Once the preferred address of the silver barons, their palaces to the small square frame. The most beautiful building of the ensemble is the former residence of Count Rul y Valenciana, the owner of th...

Over a long staircase to reach the striking university buildings. It was only 1955 TO the body of a Jesuit college in Moorish-inspired style and offers a beautiful view over the Old Town. Next door is...

Alley of the kiss! It owes its name to being such a steep, narrow (68cm/27in) passage that lovers can kiss each other from opposite windows across the lane.

The church represents the height of the Mexican ultra-Baroque. Outside Guanajuato on the street to Dolores Hidalgo is the site of the church La Valenciana or San Cayetano. Antonio Obregón y Alcocer, Cou...

A former storage building for corn. Completed in 1799, the building later served alternate purposes as the need arose, a prison at one time, a stronghold at another. The mine worker Juan José de los Rey...

In Guanajuato lives of the Spanish poet Miguel de Cervantes continued. To celebrate every year in October, the Cervantes Festival with theatrical performances, the "Entremeses Cervantinos" one-or shor...