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.