Area Guide

• Allende Institute  built in the 17th century by the Canal family as a retreat. Since 1951 it is   an art institute where classes are offered in silver jewelry making, ceramics and Spanish.

• Public Library is the second largest library in Mexico to have a collection of books in English.  

• Theater Angela Peralta was inaugurated in 1873 as an opera house where the   famous Mexican soprano of the period, Angela Peralta, performed “El Ruiseñor Mexicano”. 

• House of the Inquisidor an 18^th century mansion believed to have belonged to a magistrate of the Santa Inquisition

• Museum Casa de Allende the birthplace of Ignacio Allende , hero of the Mexican War of Independence.

• El Nigromante Cultural Center forms part of the Instituto Nacional de las Bellas Artes and has large incomplete murals by David Alfaro Siqueiros.

• Parroquia San Miguel Arcangel was built towards the later part of the 17^th century. The façade was redesigned in 1880 by Zeferino Gutierrez, a self-taught mason, who was inspired by drawings of European cathedrals.