Natalie Taylor

Part I Benito Juárez was on-again off-again president of Mexico during the turbulent years from 1861 through 1872. His entire lifetime...

Carmen at age 11 Imagine what this city would be like with stoplights, neon lights, asphalt streets rather than cobblestones, no...

February 24 is a Mexican national holiday celebrating Flag Day. The Mexican flag—the tricolor symbol with an eagle at its center—has gone...

This weekend marks a festival that has become part of San Miguel tradition—Candelaria, or its English equivalent Candlemas. What exactly...

January 19 marks the date of death of a personage whose life spanned over two centuries, witnessed incredible changes in social and...

Another major street that crisscrosses the center of town is Insurgentes. It is nowhere as long as Calle de la Canal, which I described...

A picture is worth a thousand words, so instead, I am inviting you on a pictorial tour of old San Miguel with images of yesteryear. One...

In my previous article I described the oldest barrio in San Miguel de Allende, excepting San Miguel Viejo where the original mission was...

Those of us living here may wonder which of the many barrios in San Miguel de Allende warrants the title of “oldest neighborhood.” There...

Under three hours’ drive from SMA is a town that many say resembles our city twenty years ago. Patzcuaro is one of 132 pueblo magico...

This month we celebrate the birth date of Diego Rivera, born in Guanajuato on December 8, 1886. One of Mexico’s greatest visual artists,...

The story of San Miguel de Allende is an amalgamation of three narratives that intertwine and enrich each other. The formal history—data...

Porfirio Diaz was a brilliant general who distinguished himself in the battle of Puebla in 1962, and later led the troops to recover...

Every year on November 11, thousands of horsemen descend upon San Miguel de Allende. They arrive from every corner—east, west, north, and...

On October 29, 2024, Mayor Mauricio Trejo was special guest for the Rotary Club of San Miguel. He spoke about his previous term as mayor,...

It was a cold, windy night in November 1901. As evening fell, the chilly easterly wind had picked up force, and howled along the streets...

I think, of all the things at school A boy has got to do… There's only one I've got just right - That's 1492. Columbus crossed the...

Five hundred years ago, when the Spanish conquerors arrived in what is now Mexico, the region was populated by millions of indigenous...

In September I wrote about the events leading to the War of Independence, and named San Miguel the cradle of Independence. One of the...

An interesting new artistic movement appeared in Mexico in the 1950s. It was called La Ruptura —the rupture, or the Breakaway Generation,...