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Biblioteca's House and Garden Tour We hope that you will join us on any given Sunday for San Miguel de Allende's most popular tourist attraction, the weekly House & Garden Tour sponsored by the Biblioteca Pública. The tours were started approximately 50 years ago by local foreign residents in order to provide visitors with the chance to see “behind the hidden walls” of San Miguel. We have over 300 houses on our roster with new homes never-before-seen on the tour being shown on a regular basis. The House & Garden Tour shows different homes every Sunday (with the exception of those which fall on a holiday). The local weekly newspaper, Atención, gives descriptions of the properties to be shown every Friday as well as alerting visitors if a holiday is upcoming. Our website will also post descriptions of the homes shown that week or advise if a holiday, festival or fiesta prevents a tour. All the tours are conducted via local buses so normally very little walking is required, although we would like to advise visitors with walking problems to ask at the cashier’s desk on any given Sunday how much walking will be required. On YOUR Sunday visit you may see anything from a Colonial mansion to a tiny adobe house, a splendid new home or an artist’s domain. Reservations are not necessary – just come to the Biblioteca Pública on a Sunday between 11AM and noon, and purchase your tickets at the door. Tickets can be purchased in advance at our ticket counter located just inside the Biblioteca's entrance on Relox 50 . Breakfast is served in our beautiful patio from 9AM till 11.30AM prior to the tour and music is played in the main patio between 11AM and noon. We offer discounts for groups of ten or more, and tickets cost $200 pesos or $15 U.S.D. Cash only, no credit cards or Traveler’s checks are accepted. Please join us! Proceeds benefit the Biblioteca Pública and its educational programs for children. Special groups or specific information can be obtained by contacting La Biblioteca at
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or calling 152-0293. Please note: There are rare times when homes that are featured on the Biblioteca website and in the Atencion newspaper are not available for viewing. These last minute changes are beyond the control of the Biblioteca and we appreciate and thank you for your understanding when these situations occur.
House and Garden Tour HISTORICAL TOUR September 12, 2010 To celebrate the Bicentennial this week’s House & Garden tour will be a very special one, just a few days before Independence Day. We will be walking to some of the most historical and special properties in and around the main square, 2 blocks from La Biblioteca. Visitors will be seeing the “secret room” where Ignacio Allende, Fray Hidalgo and their group plotted Mexico’s Independence from Spain 100 years ago; then next door to the former Presidencia (Town Hall) before it moved to its new location. The room we will be seeing is still in use by our current Mayor, Lucy Nuñez, on a weekly basis. The last two homes are occupied by Mexican families and are the most beautiful of the era, original Colonial homes with large patios which retain their original Colonial roots.
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