Guided Tour by Federal Guide Jesús Rodríguez

By car or by bike, to do this half day tour is to witness the syncretic religiosity of our Indian groups who left in these temples, calvaries and chapels along the shore of laja river testimony of their beliefs. Let's discover together the Mexican semi-desert, the land of the coyote and mesquite, and the pre-Columbian territory of the chichimecas tribes. First, we'll drive to the San Miguel Viejo community where San Miguel was established in 1542 by the monk Friar Juan de San Miguel, then continue to the San Roque's hacienda located on the border of Allende's dam. From there, we will drive to La Cieneguita community to continue to Presita de Santa Rosa which is a hydraulic engineering piece from XVIII Century used for irrigation of the former ranches and haciendas. After that, we will continue to the desert to visit La Cruz del Palmar with its complex of hacienda-plaza-capillas-centro, a little Mexican town witness of occupancies and revolutions. From there I will take you to visit the chapels of the San Isidro, Banda, Bandita and Montecillo de la Milpa with its spring water and the abandoned church. Before finishing, we're going to walk in a little forest to visit an Indian XVIII century cemetery located on the hillside of a mountain, a place of rest and never told stories. Finally, I'm going to explain to you the incredible story of Padre Alfaro and the foundation of Santuario de Atotonilco in 1747, the place where padre Hidalgo took the banner of the lady of Guadalupe during the insurgent revolution in 1810, a marvelous church declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2008.