San Miguel de Allende, Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO 2008), founded for the first time in the year 1549 by an indigenous tribe with the name of San Miguel de los Chichimecas, and which is renamed after a few years as Villa Protectora de San Miguel el Grande (1551), thus prevailing for a large part of its history until 1826, when it was elevated from Town to City and in honor of Generalissimo Ignacio Allende received the name by which it is internationally known today.
Destiny is crowned among other things with one of the largest Sanctuaries for Spiritual Exercises in Mexico and which many refer to as the Sistine Chapel of America, also being one of the few interdisciplinary sacred works that exist in the country, having inside : poetry, painting, sculpture, liturgy and architecture.
With an artistic, historical, cultural and architectural beauty and wealth, San Miguel de Allende has become one of the favorite destinations for nationals and foreigners to meet and enjoy, added to the warmth of its people that make this place something unique and unrepeatable.
Tourist attractionsThere is always something fun to know in this city
COUNTRY: MÉXICO 
MUNICIPALITY: San Miguel de Allende
STATE: Guanajuato
YEAR OF DECLARATION: 2008
TYPE: Cultural
SELECTION CRITERIA: (ii)(iv)
Identification number: 1274
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