A City A Day

Why do mexicans wear their baseball cap with the brim up? So they have a place to keep their taco.

San Miguel de Allende  is a city and  municipality  located in the far eastern part of the state of  Guanajuato  in central  Mexico . It is part of the macroregion  of  Bajío . [1]  It is 274 km from  Mexico City  and 97 km from the state capital of  Guanajuato . [2]  Historically, the town is important as being the birthplace of  Ignacio Allende , whose surname was added to the town’s name in 1826, as well as the first municipality declared independent of Spanish rule by the nascent insurgent army during the Mexican War of Independence . However, the town waned during and after the war, and at the beginning of the 20th century was in danger of becoming a  ghost town . Its Baroque / Neoclassical  colonial structures were "discovered" by foreign artists who moved in and began art and cultural institutes such as the Instituto Allende  and the  Escuela de Bellas Artes . This gave t...

Cancún  ( Spanish pronunciation:  [kaŋˈkun] ) is a city in southeastern  Mexico , located on the northeast coast of the  Yucatán Peninsula  in the Mexican state of  Quintana Roo . It is a major world-renowned tourist destination, [2]  as well as being the seat of the municipality of  Benito Juárez . The city is located on the  Caribbean Sea , and is one of the easternmost points in Mexico. Cancún is located just north of Mexico's Caribbean coast resort band known as the  Riviera Maya . As documented in the earliest colonial sources, the island of Cancún was originally known to its  Maya inhabitants  as Nizuc ( Yucatec Maya  [ niʔ suʔuk ]) meaning either "promontory" or "point of grass". [5]  In the years after the Conquest, much of the population died off or left as a result of disease, warfare, piracy, and famines, leaving only small settlements on Isla Mujeres and Cozumel Island. [ citation needed ] The nam...