14 Facts About Guanajuato City

Growth of Guanajuato City resulted from the abundantly available minerals in the mountains surrounding it.

Guanajuato City is home to the Mummy Museum, which contains naturally mummified bodies that were found in the municipal cemetery between the mid 19th and 20th centuries.

Guanajuato City was the site of the first battle of the Mexican War of Independence between newly assimilated Mexican insurgent warriors and royalist troops at the Alhondiga de Granaditas.

Unlike the regular layouts of many other Spanish and Mexican cities, the streets of Guanajuato City follow the extreme irregularity of the terrain, with small alleyways, plazas and in some cases steep staircases up hillsides.

The first significant mine was called San Bernabe, which brought thousands of adventurers to Guanajuato City and led to the discovery of other mineral deposits.

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One of the main reasons for the mummies' fame in Mexico is the 1972 film El Santo contra las momias de Guanajuato City, which featured Mexico's most famous lucha libre wrestler, El Santo, as well as two others called Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras.

Guanajuato City's was donated to the city by Carlos I and his son Felipe II in 1557.

In 1949 the building was converted into the Museo Regional de Guanajuato City, documenting the history of the area and its role in Mexican national history from the pre-Hispanic period to the present divided among fourteen halls on the upper floor.

University of Guanajuato City began as a Jesuit school for children in the first half of the 18th century.

Guanajuato City's donated a fifth of her fortune toward it and worked to obtain donations from other wealthy families in the city.

Guanajuato City is dotted with a large number of small plazas or squares that were built along with the churches that usually gave them their names.

The theater was built from 1872 to 1903 by Antonio Rivas Mercado, who designed the Angel of Independence monument in Mexico Guanajuato City, and was inaugurated with the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi with President Porfirio Diaz in attendance.

Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato was created to exhibit the best of the artwork of the city.

Guanajuato City has reached twin town and sister city agreements with a substantial number of cities for a relatively small city in a Mexican context .