In this richly illustrated volume, Cora Bosworth Glasier Myers takes readers on a journey through the history and culture of Guanajuato, Mexico. Drawing on her own experiences and extensive research, Myers explores the city's vibrant architecture, art, and traditions, providing a comprehensive introduction to this hidden gem of Mexican culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from A City of Dream: Guanajuato "After a sleep of a hundred years, Gunanjuato is waking up," an American resident of Mexico city said to me one day, and I tried to think what the old place would be like "waked up." Guanajuato - away up in the mountains, sleeping on the hillsides, the most dreamily picturesque city on all the North American continent - waking up! It was like hearing ill tidings of a friend, for the waking up process does not help quaint old Mexican cities, at least not for the idler or artist, or even for the every day tourista. On a former visit there were threatening signs of commercialism, and knowing what American capital and hustle and bustle can do for one of these drowsy places, I hurried away to Guanajuato, as one friend might fly to another in distress. It is a full day's ride from Mexico City, and all the way we watched for some sign of the awakening, for we reasoned that if Guanajuato had waked up, some of the nearer places on the line of the railway must have shared in the catastrophe. At Tula, where the winds on a summer day are like so many breaths from heaven, the same women and children brought the same peppery things to eat, and the same little girls hurried to the car windows with brown jugs of pulque. Up through the beautiful valley of San Juan del Rio all was the same; the same people sold the same wares, and the same blind beggars held up the same dirty sombreros. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.