Guanajuato City
The history
The UNESCO-listed colonial silver city nearby — a maze of alleys, tunnels, and pastel houses stacked up a ravine, and the birthplace of Mexico's War of Independence in 1810.
In brief
Guanajuato is a municipality in central Mexico and the capital of the state of Guanajuato. It is part of the Bajío macroregion. The city is built in a narrow valley, which gives its streets a winding layout; many are narrow alleys inaccessible to cars, while others consist of long stairways up the mountainsides. Several of its thoroughfares run partially or entirely underground. Its historic center contains numerous small plazas and colonial-era mansions, churches, and civic buildings constructed from pink or green sandstone. The historic center and adjacent mines were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.
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