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Welcome to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico!
San Miguel Directory the news and travel guide from San Miguel de Allende is a directory of news, events, hotels, real estate, restaurants, attractions, vacations and rentals available in the colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
In our tourist travel guide you will find a listing of tourist attractions of various cities with a guide to vacations and travel tips for visitors to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. There is also current local mexico news and weather information from San Miguel de Allende.
San Miguel de Allende is a place to learn Spanish, take art classes, learn to cook authentic Mexican food, and enroll in some of the different types of workshops offered throughout the year.
Use this guide to find information about the arts, art galleries, culture and the history of San Miguel de Allende. If are thinking about moving or retiring in Mexico, visit the real estate section, for both houses for sale and real estate agencies, try the hotels section then check into the forums to ask a local expert about getting settled quickly in the community of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
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San Miguel de Allende is one of Mexico's most popular destinations. The picturesque city with perfect weather and an amazing variety of activities offers travellers a rich cultural experience.
If you are looking for lodging in our city, consider the benefits of having your own private and fully equipped vacation home rental. We offer a wide selection of vacation rentals in San Miguel de Allende, available on a weekly or monthly basis. Our other services include transportation to and from the airport, meals, and tours of the surrounding area.
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News: Atencion Expatriates
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Famous worldwide for its mild climate, thermal springs and colonial era architecture, San Miguel de Allende has attracted a large community of foreign residents. Exact figures are difficult to obtain since Medicare, the U.S. public health system, cannot be claimed abroad, and many expatriates return regularly to the United States to receive treatment as well as to maintain their residence status in their home country. Both Democrats Abroad and Republicans Abroad have active chapters in San Miguel de Allende and retain their involvement with U.S. politics. Canadian residents often live six months in Mexico and six months in Canada to maintain their Canadian health coverage.
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Activities: Study Spanish in San Miguel de Allende
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Practice and study Spanish in San Miguel de Allende. San Miguel de Allende is a charming town with cobblestone streets, flowering gardens and plenty of colonial architecture. The city was built on a hillside with a wonderful view of the Guanajuato mountains. Although, many people from the US have retired in the San Miguel de Allende area, the city offers younger travelers plenty to do and live music can be found nearly every night of the week. With year round comfortable weather, San Miguel de Allende is a pleasant destination any time of year. The surrounding areas offer botanical gardens, natural hot springs and areas for hiking.
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Books: Behind the Doors of San Miguel de Allende
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This unusual book celebrates the colorful, sunwashed doorways of San Miguel de Allende, one of the oldest towns in Mexico. Picturesque, intellectually stimulating and historically fascinating, this arts-and-crafts and cultural center is a popular destination for tourists, expatriates, and vacationers. When photographer-writer Robert de Gast first visited San Miguel de Allende in 1987 he was particularly captivated by its doors---of mansions, houses, stables, churches, banks, studios, and stores. He returned to San Miguel de Allende five years later to them; eighty of his photographs from that trip have been selected for this entrancing book. De Gast lives part of every year in San Miguel de Allende, where he continues to photograph and write.
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Arts: Festival de San Miguel de Allende
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Festival de San Miguel de Allende - Chamber Music Concerts
First sponsored by the Banco Nacional de Mexico, and then by AT&T, the festival grew from four concerts to eighteen. Presented during the last two weeks of the year, the festival came to be recognized by the Mexican government as the country’s best festival of classical music and throughout the world as: One of the most extraordinary festivals of our times.” International Herald Tribune; “Comparable to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,” Harold Schonberg; and “Magic in Mexico: Festival de San Miguel de Allende,” Chamber Music Magazine.
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Events: The Posadas in San Miguel de Allende
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From December 16 through December 24, these parties are celebrated all over San Miguel de Allende and Mexico. During nine nights, Mexicans commemorate the story of Mary and Joseph, when they were looking for shelter, just a few days before Jesus' birth. Participants take ceramic figures of Mary and Joseph ("The Pilgrims") in a symbolic manner to be deposited at the home of the Posada host, accompanied with candles and singing the traditional song. Each night ends up with a party at a different house; an important part of the "posada" party is the "piñata", a clay or paper pot ornamented with colorful paper on the outside, filled with candy and fruit. The piñata hangs from a rope. San Miguel children are blindfolded to hit the "piñata" with a stick, until it is broken, the candy and fruit fall to the floor and everyone throw themselves on the ground to pick up the piñata's treats.
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Events: San Miguel de Allende Jazz Fest
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This year the festival will present concerts featuring many personalitites of Jazz and Blues at the Angela Peralta theatre. Along with the educational venues that any festival offers, there will be workshops that will focus on public topics that should give the participants a more thorough knowledge of Jazz and Blues, if the musicians truly know their stuff.
Highlights of the festival will be the participation of the public workshops and "jam sessions" after each concert.
This is the first Festival International de Jazz & Blues to come to San Miguel de Allende. Thursday November 23rd - Sunday November 26th
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News: Infonavit and Affordable housing in San Miguel
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In San Miguel de Allende where low-income neighborhoods are rapidly being gentrified and where the number of spacious, elegant residences for the wealthy appears to be slowly outnumbering the supply of affordable housing, are working-class families who do not have a million pesos or more to spend being shut out of the housing market?
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Events: The Festival Internacional Cervantino
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This year the Festival Internacional Cervantino will be held from October 4th through the 22nd in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico. The guest country is Great Britain which means there will be much on offer that will be readily accessible to an English speaking public. The guest Mexican state is Chiapas, represented by their colorful marimba music and presentations of Chamula Carnavals.
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Colorful costumes, music, dance and candy are the main ingredients of this unique carnival that dates from the 18th century. The Los Locos parade is a mixture of local religious traditions and popular celebrations in which the faithful thank San Antonio for the favors and miracles they have received during the year, showing their gratitude by dancing and handing out candy. Los Locos, the "crazy people," are the participants in a parade that capture all onlookers' attention with their eccentric dancing and costumes, some of which reference current political, entertainment and cultural events of the country. This election year, no doubt the main characters in the parade will be candidates for Mexico's federal offices.
The most traditional and craziest of all the parades in the San Miguel de Allende brightens San Miguel this June.
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