Last November 9, during the celebration of the 4th Ordinary General Assembly of the National Association of Mexican Cities of World Heritage A.C., Ulises Mejía Haro, Municipal President of Zacatecas and the Mayor of Xochimilco, José Carlos Acosta Ruiz, who respectively will occupy the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the Association during the period 2019,…
At the beginning of the S. XIX Governor Ildefonso Díaz de León ordered the construction of a hydraulic system that would supply the city permanently with the spring discovered in 1617 and located in the Sierra de San Miguelito, properly speaking Cañada del Lobo, located 4 km from the city, which with resources from the…
The area now occupied by this great little town was part of the Carmelite convent complex which, after the reform laws, was detached from the Convent and used as a prison in 1870. It was not until 1889 that its construction was begun by the Architect. José Noriega and in 1894 it was inaugurated. The…
Jewel of the Baroque Potosí Baroque, the Temple of Carmen was built thanks to the munificence of Don Nicolas Fernando Torre who, upon his arrival from Spain, settled for a time in San Luis Potosí, marrying Mrs. Gertrudis Maldonado Zapata at the same time, made his fortune counting on the Hacienda of Peotillos and the…
Ordered to build by the Visitor José de Galvez, was Felipe Cleere, the royal treasurer of this Fund, and amateur architect, to take charge of the project of the building, its construction began in 1764, as recalled by the inscription in the key of the door. This is one of the few buildings of civil…
This farm dates from the S. XVIII, its impressive balcony, relic of the art Virreinal is one of the most attractive and elegant of the country thanks to the detail in its shelves, cornice and ironworks. He belonged to Brigadier Félix María Calleja del Rey, Count of Calderón, after arriving from Spain, he was mayor…
It has this name because this was the Plaza Mayor of the City Hall of San Luis Potosi during the Viceroyalty, where the Royal Houses were located and where the Coat of Arms of the City was located. The Jardín Hidalgo did not exist as such until the end of the 19th century when the…
The Temple of Nuestra Señora de la Expectación or Potosina Cathedral, is located where the initial Parish of San Luis existed, being its first Parish Priest Don Andres Nieto who administered the sacraments from May 1593. In 1670 this parish church was demolished and the construction of a new temple was begun, being the Master…
