San Miguel de Allende Historic Center: Parroquia, El Chorro & Bellas Artes | Self-Guided Audio Walk

<ul><li value="1" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Start in the Jardín beneath the Parroquia, the pink Gothic church a self-taught local mason built in the 1880s from engravings and plans drawn in the sand.</span></li><li value="2" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Walk cobbled Calle Aldama for the postcard view of the spires, then the shade of Parque Juárez and El Chorro, the spring where the town began in 1542.</span></li><li value="3" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn to read the town: ochre and terracotta walls, carved pink stone, a giant stone shell over La Salud's door, and domes kept for churches alone.</span></li><li value="4" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Step into Bellas Artes, a 1765 convent with a garden cloister and an unfinished Siqueiros mural, then finish at the Canal family's carved mansion on the square.</span></li></ul>