Portal Guadalupe

Guadalupe Portal in San Miguel de Allende In the Colony the town was called San Miguel el Grande, by its founder Fray Juan de San Miguel; after independence, on March 8, 1826 his name changed to San Miguel de Allende, in honor of Ignacio Allende. In 1926 it was declared a historical monument for its incomparable state of conservation in its historic center; From the fifties, San Miguel became an important tourist site for its architecture, mainly colonial. In 2002 he obtained the distinctive Magic Town and in 2008 he was declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity by Unesco.