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Pilgrimage with Researcher to Cañada de la Virgen, Hill of the Ancestors
Pilgrimage with Researcher to Cañada de la Virgen, Hill of the Ancestors
Pilgrimage with Researcher to Cañada de la Virgen, Hill of the Ancestors
Pilgrimage with Researcher to Cañada de la Virgen, Hill of the Ancestors
Pilgrimage with Researcher to Cañada de la Virgen, Hill of the Ancestors

Pilgrimage with Researcher to Cañada de la Virgen, Hill of the Ancestors

By Artisans of Time
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Free cancellation available
Price is AU$115 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Alberto Aveleyra has been doing research on the site since 2017, when he presented a paper about the prehispánic routes of access to the site in the 3rd International Congress of Ethnohistory. This year, 2021, an article where he shows his first research results is going to appear in a book about the Royal Road of Guanajuato.
His research proposes that this site probably is the sanctuary of Chicomoztoc, a place referred in multiple indigenous historical sources, this discovery drove him to start a PhD in Mesoamerican studies in the National University of Mexico, he is now in the selection process, if he is succesful, he´ll start his degree in August 2021. The last 4 years of fieldwork and codex analysis have been founded through the tours he runs in the site. When you hire his tours you are contributing and supporting his research, creating a new way to do cultural anthropology in Mexico.

Activity location

  • Canada de la Virgen
    • San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Callejón del Cardo
    • Callejón del Cardo
    • San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

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Pilgrimage with Researcher to Cañada de la Virgen, Hill of the Ancestors in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • Opening hours: Tue 9:00 am-1:30 pm
  • English
Price details
AU$115.37 x 1 AdultAU$115.37
Total
Price is AU$115.37
Until Mon, 25 Nov

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Know before you book

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • The starting hour of the tour depends on the confirmation from the Archaeological Site Visitor´s Centre. There is a limited number of travellers aloud to enter the site each hour, from 10 am to 3 pm. We always ask to enter at 10 am (tour starting at 9am) but that depends totally on the available spaces in the Archaeological Site for that specific day. Because of this, it is common to enter the site and start the tour in later hours (11am, 12 pm, 1 pm). We confirm you the starting time of the tour after we receive the confirmation from the Archaeological Site Visitor´s Centre.

Activity itinerary

Canada de la Virgen
  • 3h
  • Admission ticket included
Walk with me through this indigenous sanctuary founded in the VI century A.D. While we walk through this beautiful natural landscape, learn about the 30 centuries old pre-Hispanic native civilisations, their rites, the cult to the ancestors, the archaeological excavations on the site and the research I´m doing there. My resarch is about the Prehispanic routes used by the ancient pilgrims and the cultural meanings of the processions performed there. The DNA research reveals that this archaeological site was a multi-ethnic sanctuary, it was the goal for pilgrims coming from different parts of Mexico for a period of 500 years between the VI and the XI century of our era.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESCanada de la Virgen
    • San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLECallejón del Cardo
    • Callejón del Cardo
    • San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

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