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Extremely cold, very dry regions and swamps are where bodies naturally mummify and are sometimes found thousands of years later.
In the case of the Guanajuato mummies, subjects only had to wait a few hundred years and were not so much opened as evicted. From 1865 to 1958 in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, relatives were required to pay a huge tax for the dead. When relatives did not do this for three consecutive years, their deceased relatives were dug up and transported to other burial sites.
Oddly enough, due to the extremely dry soil conditions, the corpses often turned into well-preserved mummies. (The first to be dug up and found mummified was Dr. Remigio Leroy. His body was removed from the ground on June 9, 1865.) The cemetery staff kept these strange mummies in an underground crypt in case relatives showed up with money and demanded reburial. By 1894, enough mummified bodies had gathered in the crypt. The cemetery staff decided to rename this place a museum.
Although the practice of paying for burial sites ended in 1958 (three years before the first man flew into space), the mummies continued to be kept in the local crypt-museum. In 1970, the Mexican horror film Santo vs. the Mummies of Guanajuato was filmed there, starring Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta. As the mummies gained notoriety, they began to attract interested visitors. For many years they were kept simply in crypts, but today they are housed in more formal museum display cases.
Since the mummies were created naturally, they look more terrible than the Egyptian ones. With haggard and twisted faces, often covered in the tattered rags in which they were buried, the mummies stand and lie in glass cases throughout the museum.
Perhaps most shocking to visitors are the pregnant mummy and shrunken baby mummies, including "the world's smallest mummy" that is no bigger than a loaf of bread. It is still unknown why there are so many natural mummies in the cemetery, and year after year this place is overgrown with superstitions about them. There is a widespread belief that mummification is a divine punishment for deeds committed during life.
The museum has a gift shop that sells sugar skulls and stuffed mummies, as well as grotesque postcards featuring mummies and joking anecdotes in Spanish.
Good to know
If you take the city bus (with the sign "Las Mumias"), ask the bus driver to indicate the street that leads to the museum. You will go up until you see a large stone wall with no windows. To go straight to the museum, turn right and walk to the end of this wall. Then you will see many souvenir stands. Turn left and walk until you find the ticket office. If you want to visit the cemetery first, don't turn to the big stone wall, but instead go up the hill a little more and you will see the entrance on the right. The cemetery is worth seeing if you like that sort of thing. You cannot enter the museum from the cemetery. you will have to cross to the other side and go down below - the museum is actually located under the cemetery!
You should not plan a visit to this place as part of a sightseeing tour, otherwise there will simply not be enough time to appreciate these terrible corpses. Instead, make sure you have at least an hour or two to walk around the cemetery.
Perhaps everyone at least once in their life has seen some kind of horror movie in which the walking dead attack people. These sinister dead excite the human imagination. But in fact, mummies do not pose any danger, but have incredible scientific value. In our review, one of the most incredible archaeological finds of our time is the mummies of Guanajuato.
The Mummies of Guanajuato are a collection of naturally mummified bodies buried during an outbreak of cholera in Mexican Guanajuato in 1833. These mummies were discovered in the city's cemetery, making Guanajuato one of the top tourist attractions in Mexico. True, the attraction is very creepy.
Scientists believe that the bodies were exhumed between 1865 and 1958. At that time, a new tax was introduced, according to which the relatives of the deceased had to pay a tax for a place in the cemetery, otherwise the body was exhumed. As a result, ninety percent of the remains were exhumed, because there were few willing to pay such a tax. Of these, only two percent of the bodies were naturally mummified. Mummified bodies, which were kept in a special building at the cemetery, became available to tourists in the 1900s.
Cemetery workers began letting visitors in for a few pesos to enter the building where the bones and mummies were stored. The site was later turned into a museum called El Museo De Las Momias ("Mummy Museum"). A law banning forced exhumation was passed in 1958, but the original mummies are still on display in this museum.
The mummies of the Mexican city of Guanajuato are the result of weather and soil conditions in which mummification occurs. The bodies of dead people who were not taken away for burial by relatives often became public exhibits. During epidemics, bodies were buried immediately after death to prevent the spread of the disease. Scientists believe that some people were buried while still alive, and that is why an expression of horror is imprinted on their faces. But there is another opinion: facial expression is the result of post-mortem processes.
At the same time, it is known that a certain Ignatia Aguilar was indeed buried alive. The woman suffered from a strange disease, due to which her heart stopped several times. During one of the attacks, her heart seemed to stop for more than a day. Believing that Ignatia had died, her relatives buried her. When the exhumation was carried out, it turned out that her body was lying face down, and the woman was biting her hand, and there was baked blood in her mouth.
The museum, which has at least 111 mummies on display, is located directly above the site where the mummies were first discovered. This museum also houses the smallest mummy in the world - the fetus of a pregnant woman who fell victim to cholera. Some of the mummies are exhibited in the preserved clothes in which they were buried. The mummies of Guanajuato are a prominent part of Mexican folk culture, emphasizing the national holiday "Day of the Dead" (El Dia de los Muertos) in the best possible way.
No less interesting and. Scientists still cannot unravel the recipe according to which Pirogov's body was mummified, and people come to church to bow to him like holy relics and ask for help.
There are many cities that are famous for their museums. The tiny town of Guanajuato is also world famous. But there are no ancient artifacts or famous paintings in it. The exhibits of this museum are the dead. And it is located in the local cemetery of Santa Paula ...
The town of Guanajuato is located in Central Mexico, 350 kilometers from the capital. In the middle of the 16th century, the Spaniards recaptured these lands from the Aztecs and founded Fort Santa Fe. The Spaniards had every reason to hold on tightly to the town: the land was famous for its gold and silver mines.
Where the metal is mined
Before the Aztecs, the Chichimecas and Purépecha lived and mined precious metals here, the name of their town was translated like this - “the place where the metal is mined”. Then the Aztecs came, set up gold mining almost on an industrial scale and renamed the town Kuanas Huato - "the abode of frogs among the hills." In the Columbian era, the Aztecs were replaced by the Spaniards. They built a powerful fortress and began to mine gold for the Spanish crown. By the 18th century, gold in the mines was depleted, silver began to be mined. The town was considered rich. Spanish settlers built it to outshine the beauty of their native Toledo. And they succeeded - beautiful cathedrals, palaces, tall fortress walls. The city, located in a green valley, climbed the "frog hills", the streets going up were built like stairs - with steps. Palaces, however, were side by side with tiny houses, one above the other, stuck to the slopes of the hills. It was a paradise for the wealthy inhabitants of Nova - and a hell for the poor. All these poor people worked in the mines. Most of the poor dreamed of throwing off the colonial yoke. This was achieved by the middle of the 19th century. Mexico gained independence. A new time and a new order have begun. However, it turned out that the rich had not gone away. The beggars still worked in the mines. Taxes kept going up. And since 1865, local gravediggers introduced an annual payment for a place in the cemetery. Now, in the event that no payment was received for the burial for 5 years, the deceased was removed from the crypt and placed in the basement. Inconsolable relatives could return the body to the grave ... if they paid the debt. Alas, not everyone could do it! The first victims of the new law were the dead, who had no relatives. The next are the bankrupt dead. Their bones lay in the basement until the enterprising owners of the cemetery began to show their dead compatriots to everyone who wanted to. Of course, secretly and for money. And then - no longer a secret. Since 1969, the cemetery cellar has been converted and received the status of a museum...
Scary exhibits
There were many dead to be expelled from the crypts. But not all "exiles" were awarded a place in the museum. There were just over a hundred of them. And the reason for placing these dead in the museum's glass cases was not trivial: during their stay in the crypt, the bodies of the dead did not disintegrate, as dead flesh should, but turned into mummies. These were mummies of natural origin - they were not embalmed after death, they were not anointed with special compounds, but simply put in a coffin. And if what usually happens with corpses happened to most of the dead, then these bodies naturally mummified.
The first exhibit is considered to be the once well-to-do deceased, Dr. Remigio Leroy. The poor fellow simply had no relatives. It was dug up in 1865 and given the inventory number "item 214". The doctor even preserved a suit made of expensive fabric. The costumes and dresses on other exhibits were either almost not preserved, or were seized by museum workers. According to one of them, there was such a smell from things that no sanitation would have helped. So most of the decayed clothes were stripped from the corpses and destroyed. That is why many of the dead are brought naked to curious tourists. True, socks and shoes were not removed from some of them - shoes did not suffer so much from time to time.
Among the exhibits there are those who died during the cholera epidemic in 1833, there are those who died from occupational diseases of miners who inhaled silver dust every day, there are those who died of old age, there are those who died as a result of an accident, there are strangled, there are drowned. And there are far more women among them than men.
Few exhibits have been identified by scientists. Among them is a woman with her hands pressed to her mouth, her shirt pulled up and her legs apart. This is Ignasia Aguilar, quite respectable mother of the family. The strange posture is simply explained by many: at the time of the burial, Ignasia was in a deep faint or fell into a lethargic sleep. She must have been buried alive. The woman woke up already in the coffin, scratching its lid, screaming, trying to escape from captivity. When she began to run out of air, she tried to tear her own mouth out in pain. Blood clots were found in the mouth. Scientists are going to investigate the substance extracted from under her nails: if it turns out to be wood or coffin lining, then a terrible guess will be confirmed.
The fate of another museum exhibit, also a woman, is no less sad. She was suffocated. There is still a piece of rope around her neck. According to the museum legend, the head of the executed man on display belongs to the strangler husband.
Another curious exhibit is a screaming woman. The mouth of this mummy is open, although the arms are folded across the chest. The faint of heart, when they first see a screaming mummy, recoil in fear. Despite the calm position of the hands, the facial expression of this exhibit is such that even some experts suspect that the woman was also buried alive...
Pharaoh's son and others
However, distorted facial features and mouths open in a silent scream are not always an indication that a person was buried alive. There is a story that happened in 1886 with the Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. He discovered the mummy of a young man with his hands and feet bound, his face twisted, probably in pain, and his mouth wide open. In addition, the mummy was nameless and wrapped in a sheep's skin, which is uncharacteristic for. The archaeologist decided that the unfortunate man had been buried alive. The terrible expression on his face suggested that the conspirator was not even mummified. However, nowadays forensic doctors scanned the body and found all signs of mummification. Therefore, he was not buried alive. And the terrible expression on his face is due to the fact that this is most likely the eldest son of Pharaoh Ramses III, worthy of oblivion, who was allowed to commit suicide with poison after an unsuccessful attempt on his father.
But an open mouth may not speak of terrible torment at all. Even a calmly deceased person can get a frightening expression of "silent scream" if the deceased's jaw is poorly tied up. The exposition of the Mexican museum contains at least two dozen mummies with "screaming" mouths. There are men, women and even children among them.
The bulk of the mummies of Guanajuato, of which there are 111, do not reach not only 200, but also 150 years. These are the youngest mummies that have arisen naturally. Only a few children, the so-called "angels", have traces of post-mortem intervention - internal organs were removed from them. In general, the bodies mummified themselves. In the 19th century, when the first such bodies were found, the question “why” did not arise among people. They looked at the mummified remains with reverence - it was considered a miracle and evidence of a sinless life. But today, scientists still decided to solve the riddle.
It is known that the mummified bodies were not buried in the ground. All of them were in crypts going to the cemetery by "floors". The crypts are made of limestone. The town of Guanajuato is located at an altitude of 2 kilometers above sea level, the climate is hot and dry. The conclusion of scientists is as follows: mummification is not connected either with the lifestyle of the dead, or with age, or with nutrition, but depends purely on the time of year when the body was placed in the crypt, and on the design of the crypt. If the burial took place in dry and hot weather, limestone slabs reliably block the access of air and perfectly absorb moisture coming from the body. Inside such a crypt it is dry and hot, like in an oven. The body in such a "house of death" is perfectly dried and very soon turns into a mummy. True, this process does not always have a beneficial effect on facial expressions - the muscles also dry out, tighten, facial features are distorted, and parted mouths become twisted and open in a desperate silent scream.
The Exhacienda San Gabriel de Barrera Museum is a museum of Mexican gardens. Here you can see Mexican flowers, shrubs and trees. The Exhacienda San Gabriel de Barrera museum is located on a huge Mexican ranch, created in the seventeenth century. Previously, it belonged to the famous Mexican Gabriel Barrera. He gained popularity as a gardener thanks to the cultivation of various plants. These were Mexican flowers, shrubs and trees. Seventeen Barrera gardens have survived to this day.
Visitors to the gardens will be able to see here not only representatives of plants that were grown in the seventeenth century, but also those that are found in Mexico today.
Five gardens are located in the museum in an open area, there are also those that are located indoors. Exhacienda San Gabriel de Barrera is open every day. Visitors are expected from 9 am to 6 pm. For a day of stay on the territory of the museum you will have to pay about eight dollars.
Diego Rivera Museum
The Diego Rivera Museum was founded in 1975. It contains the collection of the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. The gallery's collection includes over one hundred and seventy-five works by the master. Most of the paintings once belonged to a local resident, Martha. In the Diego Rivera Museum, visitors will be able to see the paintings that the artist created in early childhood, during his youth and in the last years of his life. The last painting he created dates back to 1956. In the museum you can see such famous paintings by Diego Rivera as "Madame Libet", "Dove of Peace", "Classic Head".
In addition to paintings, the gallery presents some of the artist's sketches. The Diego Rivera Museum houses the work of other artists of Mexico in the twentieth century. They are united in a separate collection called "minimark". For example, here you can see paintings by Jose Luis Cuevas. The Diego Rivera Museum is open all year round. You will have to pay a few dollars to stay in the museum.
mummy museum
The Mummy Museum in the Mexican town of Guanajuato invites its visitors to look at the mummified bodies of people, of whom more than a hundred are collected here. The exposition of the museum is evidence of a very unusual attitude towards death. The mummies on display are in very good condition. Mexican mummies differ from Egyptian mummies in that the atmosphere and soils in Mexico are too dry, so the bodies are severely dehydrated, and not specially embalmed.
The museum exhibits 59 mummies that were exhumed between 1865 and 1958. At that time, a law was in force in the country, according to which relatives had to pay a tax for the bodies of their deceased loved ones to rest in the cemetery. And if the family could not pay on time, they would lose the right to a burial place, and the bodies would be removed from the stone tombs. After lying in the dry ground, some of the bodies naturally mummified, and they were kept in a special building at the cemetery.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the mummies located there began to attract the attention of tourists, and the cemetery staff began to charge a fee for viewing. In 1969, when the mummies in Guanajuato were put on display in glass cases. And in 2007, the museum's exposition was rearranged into thematic sections. Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists come here, as well as numerous researchers.
Museum of Independence
The Museum of Independence is located in the city center inside a building built in the late eighteenth century by the patron Francisco Miguel Gonzalez.
Previously, there was a prison here, which on one historic Sunday in September 1810 lost all its prisoners as a result of the Grito de Independencia.
In 1985, the building acquired the status of a museum, which currently includes seven permanent exhibitions, including the "Liberation of Prisoners", "Abolition of Slavery", "Judicial Hidalgo", "Perfection of Independence" and others. In addition to expositions, the museum organizes tours, themed film cycles, traveling exhibitions, conferences and concerts.
Museum of the Casa de la Tia Aura
This museum can literally be called unique. Because its exposition is a very peculiar collection of impressions, shades, nuances and inexplicable feelings left from the inhabitants who inhabited this old house before.
This museum is often referred to as the Haunted House. And special effects help to feel its mysterious and even mystical atmosphere very reliably.
The idea for creating such a museum was given by the information that human sacrifices were made inside this house.
The tour of the house is in Spanish only, so it will be difficult for foreign-speaking guests to understand the guide's story. But very believable sighs, rustles and other sounds speak for themselves. You won't be bored in this museum.
The museum is open from Monday to Saturday.
mummy museum
The Mummy Museum was established at the end of the nineteenth century. It was opened in 1865. At this time, the first mummified body was discovered in the pantheon of Santa Paulo. Over one hundred and fifty years of history, the museum has been visited by over one million visitors. The collection of the mummy museum has more than a hundred exhibits. Some of them were donated to the museum by American researchers.
The Mummy Museum was created in order to preserve the cultural heritage of Mexico. Each exhibit reflects the life of Guanajuato for several decades. During tours of the mummy museum, the guide tells visitors about the features of the appearance of mummifications, the decoration of their graves, and also retells Mexican legends associated with mummies. Each employee of the museum took part in archaeological excavations, which are constantly carried out on the territory of Guanajuato. In 2007, the mummy museum was renovated.
Museum of Fine Arts in Quixote
The Museum of Fine Arts in Quixote is a museum created under the patronage of the Government of Guanajuato and the Cervantina Eulalio Foundation. The Museum of Fine Arts in Quixote is widely recognized as a cultural center. The reason for the popularity lies not only in the widest thematic collection of the museum (more than 900 works of art). First of all, the museum is known as the center of the annual Art Festival, where artists, writers, sculptors and other representatives of the creative intelligentsia from all over the world gather.
The exposition of the museum includes paintings made in different styles and techniques, sculptures, ceramics, arts and crafts and much more. The collection continues to grow, mainly through donations from the Cervantina Foundation.
The National Museum in Guanajuato
The Folk Museum of Guanajuato is located in one of the most beautiful places in the historic part of the city. The museum was opened in 1979 and since then its collection has been constantly updated with new samples of folk art.
The permanent exhibition of the museum presents many objects of national heritage. These are archaeological finds, and samples of fine art, and tools, and household items of local peoples. The pearl of the museum is an extensive collection of miniatures.
Despite the abundance of exhibits, the museum's exposition is organized very compactly, which makes visiting the museum very comfortable.
The museum is open every day, except Sunday and Monday, from ten in the morning to seven in the evening. On Sunday, the museum is open to the public from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
Jean Byron House Museum
This museum is a recreated hacienda, a typical building where the wealthy lived during the flourishing silver mining industry. The hacienda was restored in the mid-50s of the last century and today is a good visual example of the lifestyle of its last inhabitants - the artist Jean Byron and her husband Virgil.
The creative inclinations of the inhabitants of the house left a colorful imprint on its decoration. It is furnished with delicate taste. The interior is decorated with original items made of wood and ceramics, paintings, as well as antique furniture. The beautiful garden surrounding the house-museum also pleases with its calm beauty.
The house functions as a museum, which regularly hosts exhibitions. There is also a cultural center where baroque music concerts and various arts and crafts classes are held. Some of the artwork is available for purchase.
Mining Museum of San Ramon
The Mining Museum of San Ramon is a public museum dedicated to the region's mining industry and is open to the public. The permanent exhibition includes exhibitions of minerals, old photographs, objects of labor and everyday life of the miners of the county of Valencia.
The oldest exhibits of the museum date back to 1549, when superficial silver deposits were discovered in the county of Valencia, which to this day are considered one of the richest in the world. Later, the development was also carried out by the mine method. In one of these mines, a separate exposition is arranged. The total length of this mine is five hundred and fifty meters, however, for safety reasons, only the first fifty are allowed to visit.
At the entrance to the excursion mine there is a small restaurant where you can taste national dishes in an appropriate setting.
Attractions Guanajuato
They are very popular with tourists. Sunny beaches, ancient cities that still remember the conquistadors, amazing nature, colorful customs of the local population and, of course, open-air archaeological museums with the unique architecture of Mesoamerica - all this awaits those who come to a warm country.
Cities
A trip to Mexico is worth making in order to see for yourself the incredible power and greatness of civilizations, the memory of which is still kept by the ancient stones of the temple of Quetzalcoatl. Such Mexican cities as Mexico City and Cancun are a vivid example of how the history and culture of different civilizations and peoples are surprisingly intertwined.
Forever young Acapulco will swirl in a whirlwind of entertainment and amaze with daredevils, who in the bay of La Quebrada from a height of 35 meters rush into the waves of the Pacific Ocean. The old cities of Mexico, such as Guadalajara and Tequila, have the hallmarks of the Spanish colonial era, not only in architecture. There is still a bullfighting arena where spectacular performances are held, but the Tequila Museum is of particular interest to tourists.
Gorgeous white sand beaches and ocean depths promise heavenly pleasure. In this regard, it is worth mentioning beach tours to Mexico. The Riviera Maya resort will not leave indifferent even the most demanding public, excellent service and comfortable hotels, from the doors of which you can get directly to the beach. Nature and architecture of amazing beauty will leave unforgettable memories.
Description
The city of Guanajuato deserves special attention; its outstanding beauty and sights amaze even seasoned tourists. It was founded in the sixteenth century by the Spanish colonialists, who discovered deposits rich in silver there. Thus began the history of the city, the first settlements of miners arose, and later the settlement of Santa Fe was built. The eighteenth century gave prosperity to the city, it was at this time that new, richest silver veins were found. The owners of deposits and mines began active development, and money poured into the treasury of the Spanish crown. The newly minted Spanish nobility did not skimp on the construction of palaces, churches and temples in the city of Guanajuato. Mexico became their second home. They even called it New Spain.
The beautiful baroque temples of La Compaña and San Cayetano de la Valenciana are undoubtedly the architectural masterpieces of colonial Mexico. Silver deposits have been depleted over time, and silver mining has ceased to be a priority sector of the city's economy. But tourism and education have become basic areas, and the city is also the capital of the state of the same name. Guanajuato (state) has a developed economy, which is based on the extraction of gold, silver, fluorine and quartz. The petrochemical industry, food industry and pharmaceutical enterprises are well developed.
Name and national component
Quite interesting is the history of the name of the city of Guanajuato. Mexico was then inhabited by indigenous peoples: Purépecha is one of them, and the city owes its name to it. "Quanaxhuato" in translation means the mountainous abode of frogs. To date, the national component consists of khonas, mestizos and whites.
Mine
The historical part of the city is located in a winding gorge. The development took place along the spurs and slopes, and on the outskirts in the Santa Rosa mountains are the famous mine and the village of La Valenciana. The mine works to this day, but, despite this, it accepts excursion groups. For a small fee, you can go down 60 meters and get an idea of the hard work of a miner.
Narrow streets
Narrow streets often turn into steps and rise high up the slope, so driving a car would be quite difficult if there were few tunnels and underground roads. Probably one of the most popular narrow streets is Kisses Lane. The urban legend says that quite wealthy people once lived on this street, their daughter fell in love with a simple worker of the local mine. The lovers, of course, were forbidden to meet, but the resourceful guy rented a room with a balcony in the house opposite. And thanks to the narrow lane, the lovers, each standing on their own balcony, could exchange kisses.
The Basilica of the Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de Guanajuato, of course, one of the city's most important attractions, is located in the city center on PlazadelaPaz, which means Peace Square.
No less attractive tourist sites are the Juarez Theater, made in neoclassical style, the buildings of Alhondiga de Granaditas and the Old Town Hall.
The city of Guanajuato (Mexico) is the birthplace of the famous artist. His home now serves as a museum. The panorama of the city from a bird's eye view is delightful, the view opens from the hill of San Miguel, on top of which there is a monument in honor of the rebel Pipila.
mummy museum
An interesting and at the same time creepy place is the Mummy Museum. The history of its formation goes back to the distant 1870. Then the law on the payment of tax for eternal burial was introduced. If the relatives of the deceased were unable to pay the tax amounts, the buried remains were dug up and sent for public viewing in a building near the cemetery. Most of the remains belong to ordinary people, workers and their families. Everyone could enter the vault and stare at the mummies for a fee. In 1958 the law was repealed and in 1970 a new museum was built and all mummies are now kept under glass.
The viewing was held by candlelight, visitors often tore off pieces from the exhibits, leaving them as souvenirs. In total, the museum's collection contains 111 mummies of people who died between 1850 and 1950. The eerie exposition is accompanied by inscriptions on the tablets in the form of a presentation, the story is in the first person and tells the sad story of mummies taken from their graves and exhibited in the museum. It is characteristic that all the bodies are mummified in a natural way. There are several versions of this phenomenon. But scientists consider the influence of climate to be the most likely; thanks to the hot and dry air, the bodies dried up and mummified rather quickly.
Monuments to Miguel Cervantes
The inhabitants of the city have a rather interesting feature: they adore the work of Miguel Cervantes. Although the famous author of Don Quixote himself never visited Guanajuato, this did not prevent the inhabitants of the city from erecting many monuments dedicated to his work and organizing the Cervantino Festival in honor of their beloved writer. This event was held for the first time in 1972.
Since then it has been held annually. The festival is one of the most significant cultural events in Mexico. During the Cervantino Guanajuato turns into a large theater stage, artists surprise and delight residents and guests of the city with their creativity, and music and singing coming from all sides create a feeling of universal rejoicing.
Also, Guanajuato can be proud of its university, not only in terms of architecture, although the new monumental building adds credibility to the panorama of the city, but also of its students. There are a lot of them here, so it seems that the inhabitants of the city are forever young. Sounds of music and laughter are heard from all sides, countless bars and discos of the city are always glad to their tireless visitors.
Conclusion
The beautiful and contrasting city of Guanajuato. Mexico never ceases to amaze with its inconsistency. On the one hand, almost the entire population of the country is zealous Catholics, regularly attends temples and honors Christian saints, on the other hand, they celebrate the Day of the Dead magnificently, dressing in terrible costumes symbolizing Death.
Guanajuato, striking with the beauty of architecture, colorful houses and cheerful disposition of the inhabitants, evokes, on the one hand, the warmest feelings, but plunges into horror with the history of the appearance of the Museum of Mummies.
Avid travelers say that you need to feel Guanajuata, and then it will be simply impossible not to fall in love with it. Yes, and Mexico itself receives the most flattering reviews from tourists, no one is indifferent. Everyone takes with him a piece of her big soul, seething with passions.
