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In 2005, Bernal was designated a Pueblo Mágico ("Magical Town") by the Mexican Secretariat of Tourism (SECTUR). [5] The Magical Towns are admitted for being localities that have magic symbolic attributes, legends, history, transcendental facts that associate in each of its cultural manifestations, and that today mean a great opportunity for ...
The Programa Pueblos Mágicos (Spanish: [pweβloˈmaxiko] ⓘ; "Magical Towns Programme") is an initiative led by Mexico's Secretariat of Tourism, with support from other federal agencies, to promote a series of towns around the country that offer visitors "cultural richness, historical relevance, cuisine, art crafts, and great hospitality". It ...
Tequisquiapan (Spanish pronunciation: [tekis'kjapan]; Otomi: Ntʼe) is a town and municipality located in the southeast of the state of Querétaro in central Mexico.The center of the town has cobblestone streets, traditional rustic houses with wrought iron fixtures, balconies, and wooden windowsills, which is the legacy of its 300-year heritage as a colonial town populated mostly by indigenous ...
Jalpan de Serra (Spanish: [ˈxalpan de ˈsera] ⓘ) is a city in Jalpan de Serra Municipality located in the north of the Mexican state of Querétaro.It is located in the heart of an important ecological zone called the Sierra Gorda.
Querétaro has one Pueblo Mágico, San Sebastián Bernal. [31] It is best known as the home of the Peña de Bernal, the third largest monolith in the world after the Rock of Gibraltar and Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. It was considered sacred by the Chichimeca and dates back to the Jurassic Period more than 100 million years ago. [22]
Cadereyta de Montes (Spanish: [kaðeˈɾejta ðe ˈmontes] ⓘ) is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Querétaro.The municipality is the second most extensive in the state.
Map of Mexico with Querétaro highlighted. Querétaro is a state in North Central Mexico, divided into 18 municipalities.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the twenty-first most populated state out of thirty-two with 2,368,467 inhabitants and the sixth smallest by land area spanning 11,690.6 square kilometres (4,513.8 sq mi).
Main square of the town of Jalpan de Serra, a site listed as a pueblo mágico. [5] Although there had been some city building in this area during the Pre Classic era, with heights between the 6th and 10th centuries, these cities had been abandoned long before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century.