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It is a combination of indigenous clay sculpture techniques along with European-style plaster work. The rococo ornamentation was added to the santuario a hundred years ago by a local artisan. As usual though, our primary recreation was soaking in the vibe and people watching. That's not to mention the artisans from all over the state of Michoacán who display and sell their fantastic folk art from a central mercado y museo.

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The rest of the time we walked from our centrally located hotel to a cathedral, more plazas, museums, colonial-era architectural wonders, cafes and restaurants, fireworks and free music-lots of music, it's home to a several centuries' old music school and its students both present and past busk all over town.

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Over the four full days there we took one ten minute, $2US taxi ride to a half dozen sites-a rococo sanctuary to the Virgin of Guadalupe, several museums, a park, plazas, and 250-year-old aqueduct, plus an excellent Latin American fusion restaurant. We took a crash course on TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, etc. It cost us the equivalent of about $30US each way on the 200 mile cuota between Guadalajara and Morelia, but it took us less than three hours and was a beautiful drive with long vistas in the high dry scrub of central Mexico. The drive last week, along with the one to Patzcuaro and others I've taken with the Cazadores de Haciendas group, have acquainted me with the cuota (fee) road system-mostly well-maintained, divided and controlled access highways-that is expensive but much faster than the often potholed, speed-bumped and narrow, twisty roads that go to and through every village. That wasn't for us, so we decided on a trip to Morelia instead the capital of Michoacán, it's a city we'd talked about visiting for its large, attractive and mostly intact three to four hundred year-old centro historico.

Last week we had planned to go to Zacatecas, a picturesque colonial silver mining town with an international street theater festival that may or may not have been going on at the time, but a few days before our departure we saw that it was forecast to have highs near 100☏. Larger cities, tourist spots that are further away-such as Pátzcuaro about 200 miles southeast of us-are also destinations. The cool mountain village of Mazamitla is a popular place to go, especially when it's hot here by Lake Chapala. hundreds of pilgrims come here to pray.Ī couple of times a year we rent a car and take a trip to a place we feel would be interesting to visit, three or four hours away from where we live in central Mexico. Every December 12, the day the Virgin of Guadalupe The Sanctuary of Guadalupe was constructed in the earlyġ700s, and the elaborate decoration added nearly 200 years