This fountain, featuring sculptures of three women holding fruit toward the sky, is a popular city landmark.

Built as the Town Hall in the sixteenth century. A lovely French-style facade was added in 1885.

This large church, which hovers over the Plaza de Santo Domingo, is known for its dark, melancholy appearance.

This pottery workshop offers tours to visitors.

This geological university has an interesting mineral museum on its premises.

A preserved 18th-century Jesuit church and the place where the Colegio del Estado got started in 1828.

The Parroquia (San Miguel de Allende Parish Church) may be a perfect metaphor for what San Miguel Allende has become in many ways: a Disney-like version of a Mexican aldea. This is unfair in many...

A popular place for relaxing massages near the town's main plaza.

The birthplace of Ignacio Allende, one of the leaders of the War of Independence, is now a museum dedicated to this national hero.

Its neoclassical dome can be seen far and wide and was supposedly modelled on Les Invalides in Paris. Has a fine interior. The adjoining convent now houses Bellas Artes (qv). (Corner of Canal and...

This 17th-century church was built only after a protracted struggle to gain the land where a church built by Indians had previously stood.

Now a bank, this building was the home of a nobleman in colonial times.

Casa del Inquisidor (Cuadrante 36): seat of the Spanish Inquisition from 1780 until independence. Has a fine exterior, but not open to the public.