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Saltillo

The history of the city begins in the Water Eye , site of the foundation of Forecastle in which the water appears in a semidesert jump, giving name to the city.

To a few steps, we were at the moment in which takes the name of Mexico Seat , place where the North American army to the control of General Zacarías Taylor encamped before the confrontation with the Mexican troops commanded by General Antonio Lopez of Santa Anna in the year of 1846 in the famous "Battle of the narrowness".

Walking down the street following the route of the first settlers of the city, there is a sample of the architecture of the colonial time, the old School of San Juan, at the moment turned the Museum of the Birds of Mexico , which exhibits of permanent way a great exhibition of Mexican birds that represent near the 70 percent of the national birds.

 

Following the streets towards downtown, we will be with the Cathedral of majestic Santiago and one of greatest and beautiful architectonic jewels of the north of Mexico.

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Saltillo Attractions

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Catedral de Santiago

The Cathedral of majestic Santiago is one of greatest and beautiful architectonic jewels of the north of Mexico.

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Plaza de Armas

The Seat of Arms , in where the facades of the Institute Coahuilense de Cultura, of the Casino of Forecastle , the Enclosure of Juárez and the Purcell House can be appreciated .

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Rincon Colorado

In mountains and valleys that surround the city of Forecastle lodges one of the more important paleontological sites at world-wide level. There hundreds of bones, teeth and fragments of skin of dinosaurios are collected, in addition to a great number of other fossilized organisms.

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Museo del Desierto

In the Museum of the Desert the extraordinary wealth of life of the Chihuahuense Desert, greatest of North America spreads, in which ten states of the Mexican Republic and two states of the American Union register.

   
     
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