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Roots Earth in San Miguel de Allende: audio stories about 40 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in Latin America. The San Miguel de Allende stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open San Miguel de Allende, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: san-miguel-de-allende.md

The 40 places in San Miguel de Allende with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel
  2. El Jardin (Jardin Allende)
  3. Templo de San Francisco
  4. Oratorio de San Felipe Neri
  5. Templo de la Concepcion (Las Monjas)
  6. Museo Historico Casa de Allende
  7. Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramirez (Bellas Artes)
  8. Instituto Allende
  9. Sanctuary of Atotonilco
  10. El Charco del Ingenio Botanical Garden
  11. Biblioteca Publica
  12. Casa del Mayorazgo de la Canal
  13. Teatro Angela Peralta
  14. Templo del Tercer Orden
  15. Templo de San Rafael (Santa Escuela)
  16. Capilla de la Santa Casa de Loreto
  17. Templo de Santo Domingo
  18. Templo de San Juan de Dios
  19. Plaza Civica
  20. El Mirador
  21. Monument to Ignacio Allende
  22. Casa del Inquisidor
  23. Historic Centre of San Miguel de Allende
  24. Templo de Nuestra Senora de la Salud
  25. Fabrica La Aurora Art Centre
  26. Plaza de la Soledad
  27. Mercado Ignacio Ramirez
  28. Mercado de Artesanias
  29. El Chorro Neighbourhood
  30. Lavaderos del Chorro
  31. Parque Juarez
  32. Barrio de Guadalupe
  33. Barrio de San Antonio
  34. Mercado Sano
  35. Panteon de Guadalupe
  36. Barrio del Valle del Maiz
  37. Callejon del Pueblito
  38. Presa de las Colonias
  39. Atotonilco Village
  40. Tianguis del Martes

Is there an audio guide for Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel?

Yes. Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 40 San Miguel de Allende places in the app, at 20.91398, -100.74353. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in San Miguel de Allende

Open Roots Earth and choose San Miguel de Allende. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 40 places in San Miguel de Allende, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 40 places in San Miguel de Allende, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel

Coordinates
20.91398, -100.74353
In one line
The pink stone parish church of San Miguel de Allende rises in towering neo-Gothic spires above the main square. A local self-taught architect reimagined its facade in the 1880s, drawing on European cathedrals, creating the city's unmistakable icon.

2. El Jardin (Jardin Allende)

Coordinates
20.91432, -100.74387
In one line
El Jardin is the heart of San Miguel de Allende, a French-style central plaza shaded by clipped Indian laurel trees and ringed by wrought-iron benches. Named for independence hero Ignacio Allende, it gathers the whole town beneath the pink parish towers.

3. Templo de San Francisco

Coordinates
20.91482, -100.74258
In one line
The Templo de San Francisco pairs an exuberant Churrigueresque Baroque portal, carved in pink stone, with a sober neoclassical bell tower attributed to Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras. Franciscans built it in the late 18th century, one of the grandest churches in San Miguel de Allende.

4. Oratorio de San Felipe Neri

Coordinates
20.91555, -100.74196
In one line
The Oratorio de San Felipe Neri presents a pink sandstone Baroque facade rich with carved ornament. Begun in the early 18th century, it shelters the gilded Santa Casa de Loreto chapel and a cycle of oil paintings, a richly layered religious complex.

5. Templo de la Concepcion (Las Monjas)

Coordinates
20.91538, -100.74508
In one line
Known affectionately as Las Monjas, the Templo de la Concepcion served a Conceptionist convent founded in the 18th century. Its towering dome, added in 1891 by Zeferino Gutierrez and inspired by Les Invalides in Paris, crowns one of San Miguel de Allende's most striking silhouettes.

6. Museo Historico Casa de Allende

Coordinates
20.91382, -100.74416
In one line
This 18th-century Baroque townhouse was the birthplace of Ignacio Allende, the cavalry officer who helped launch Mexican independence in 1810. Now a history museum, it preserves period rooms and revolutionary relics, marked by a corner plaque reading "Hic natus ubique notus."

7. Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramirez (Bellas Artes)

Coordinates
20.91611, -100.74244
In one line
Housed in an 18th-century former convent founded by Josefa Lina de la Canal, this cloistered cultural center, known as Bellas Artes, has been an art school since 1938. Its courtyard holds an unfinished mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros dedicated to Ignacio Allende.

8. Instituto Allende

Coordinates
20.9092, -100.74697
In one line
A celebrated art school set inside an 18th-century country estate built for the wealthy Canal family. Founded in 1950, it drew international students to San Miguel and helped transform the town into an artists' colony.

9. Sanctuary of Atotonilco

Coordinates
21.00499, -100.79456
In one line
A Mexican Baroque sanctuary begun in 1740, famed for folk frescoes covering nearly every wall and vault. Nicknamed the Sistine Chapel of Mexico, it is tied to the 1810 independence struggle and listed by UNESCO.

10. El Charco del Ingenio Botanical Garden

Coordinates
20.92611, -100.72972
In one line
A large botanical garden and nature reserve above San Miguel, founded in 1991 around a dramatic canyon and reservoir. It protects native cacti and succulents, and was declared a Peace Zone by the Dalai Lama in 2004.

11. Biblioteca Publica

Coordinates
20.91622, -100.74392
In one line
A 20th-century public library set in a colonial building, founded by Canadian Helen Wale. It holds one of the largest English-language book collections in Mexico and serves as a cultural hub for the town and its international community.

12. Casa del Mayorazgo de la Canal

Coordinates
20.91376, -100.74455
In one line
An 18th-century mansion of the powerful de la Canal family, blending Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Once the home of San Miguel's leading colonial dynasty, it now houses a Banamex cultural center near the main square.

13. Teatro Angela Peralta

Coordinates
20.91604, -100.7431
In one line
A 19th-century theatre in the European style, built in 1873, with an intimate horseshoe auditorium and tiered boxes. It honors Angela Peralta, the celebrated Mexican soprano known across Europe as the Mexican Nightingale.

14. Templo del Tercer Orden

Coordinates
20.915, -100.74275
In one line
A Baroque church dating from the early 17th century, linked to the Franciscan Third Order. Part of the San Francisco religious complex, it features a carved stone facade and a simple single nave.

15. Templo de San Rafael (Santa Escuela)

Coordinates
20.91379, -100.7432
In one line
Founded in 1742 by the priest Luis Felipe Neri de Alfaro, the Templo de San Rafael, known as the Santa Escuela or Holy School, stands beside the great parish church, its two-tiered facade and Moorish-style bell tower facing the main square.

16. Capilla de la Santa Casa de Loreto

Coordinates
20.9156, -100.7418
In one line
Sponsored by Manuel Tomas de la Canal in 1735, this Baroque chapel hidden within the Oratorio de San Felipe Neri is a replica of the Holy House of Loreto in Italy, its three altars covered in gold leaf and dedicated to the Virgin of Loreto.

17. Templo de Santo Domingo

Coordinates
20.9172, -100.7448
In one line
Built in 1737 as part of a former monastery complex, the Templo de Santo Domingo is a sober colonial church in San Miguel de Allende, its restrained stone facade and traditional interior reflecting the quieter, devotional side of the town's Baroque heritage.

18. Templo de San Juan de Dios

Coordinates
20.9176, -100.7472
In one line
Built in 1770 in the Barrio de San Juan, this colonial church carries a Churrigueresque-influenced front and stands beside a former hospital for the poor. It honors Saint John of God, patron of the sick and of those who care for them.

19. Plaza Civica

Coordinates
20.91497, -100.74462
In one line
Laid out around 1555 as the town's original heart and marketplace, the Plaza Civica sits near the Oratorio de San Felipe Neri and now holds an equestrian statue of independence hero Ignacio Allende, recalling its long role at the center of San Miguel's public life.

20. El Mirador

Coordinates
20.91095, -100.7406
In one line
El Mirador is the celebrated lookout above San Miguel de Allende, a terraced viewpoint on the hillside east of the center where the whole town spreads below, crowned by the pink spires of the parish church against the highland sky and the distant ridges beyond.

21. Monument to Ignacio Allende

Coordinates
20.9144, -100.7439
In one line
This monument honors Ignacio Allende, the army captain born here in 1769 who became a leading general of the Mexican War of Independence. Executed in 1811, he gave his name to the town, once called San Miguel el Grande and now San Miguel de Allende.

22. Casa del Inquisidor

Coordinates
20.9147, -100.7438
In one line
An ornate mansion of 1780 with an elaborate French-influenced facade, the Casa del Inquisidor once served as a seat of the Mexican Inquisition. It stands among the colonial streets of San Miguel de Allende as a striking eighteenth-century townhouse.

23. Historic Centre of San Miguel de Allende

Coordinates
20.9144, -100.7436
In one line
The protected colonial core of San Miguel de Allende fills roughly 43 hectares of cobblestone lanes, courtyards and seventeenth and eighteenth-century buildings. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008, it preserves the grid-and-hillside town that helped spark Mexican independence.

24. Templo de Nuestra Senora de la Salud

Coordinates
20.9162, -100.7423
In one line
An eighteenth-century church in the Churrigueresque Baroque style, the Templo de Nuestra Senora de la Salud is crowned by a great seashell crest above its portal. Founded by Luis Felipe Neri, it stands beside the former Colegio de San Francisco de Sales.

25. Fabrica La Aurora Art Centre

Coordinates
20.9225, -100.7405
In one line
A textile mill opened in 1902 and reborn in 2004 as an art and design centre, Fabrica La Aurora now fills its old industrial halls with galleries, studios and shops selling art, furnishings and antiques, along with open spaces, a cafe and a restaurant.

26. Plaza de la Soledad

Coordinates
20.915, -100.7418
In one line
Once the town's main marketplace, the Plaza de la Soledad is a colonial-era square set beside the Church of Our Lady of Health. Quieter now than the central garden, it preserves the everyday civic character of San Miguel de Allende's historic core.

27. Mercado Ignacio Ramirez

Coordinates
20.9165, -100.7431
In one line
San Miguel's main fruit and vegetable market, named for the liberal writer Ignacio Ramirez, fills its aisles with produce, flowers, food stalls and household goods. It is the everyday provisioning heart of the town, busiest in the cool of the morning.

28. Mercado de Artesanias

Coordinates
20.917, -100.7427
In one line
A handicrafts market threading a narrow alley across three blocks behind the main market, the Mercado de Artesanias sells wool, brass, tin, silver, blown glass and papier-mache. Its goods are often more authentic and cheaper than those around the central square.

29. El Chorro Neighbourhood

Coordinates
20.9123, -100.7416
In one line
El Chorro is the oldest corner of San Miguel de Allende, the hillside spring where the town resettled in 1555. Two fresh springs once supplied every household, and steep cobbled lanes still climb past colourful houses toward shaded terraces.

30. Lavaderos del Chorro

Coordinates
20.9125, -100.7414
In one line
The Lavaderos del Chorro are 18th-century public laundry basins fed by the town's founding spring. Set in rows of warm stone, they served generations of washerwomen and remain a beloved gathering spot below the El Chorro hill in San Miguel de Allende.

31. Parque Juarez

Coordinates
20.9102, -100.7423
In one line
Parque Juárez is San Miguel de Allende's leafy public park, laid out in French style at the start of the 20th century.

32. Barrio de Guadalupe

Coordinates
20.9205, -100.746
In one line
The Barrio de Guadalupe is a working-class neighbourhood turned street-art district in San Miguel de Allende. Since 2012 its walls have filled with vivid murals by Mexican and international artists, making it the city's first designated arts district below the historic centre.

33. Barrio de San Antonio

Coordinates
20.9055, -100.7495
In one line
The Barrio de San Antonio is a lively neighbourhood south of San Miguel de Allende's centre, anchored by the Ancha de San Antonio avenue. Long a traditional residential quarter, it has become a hub of art schools, studios, and creative life.

34. Mercado Sano

Coordinates
20.9078, -100.7515
In one line
Mercado Sano is a community organic market opened in 2016 in a former hardware store on the Ancha de San Antonio. Founded by local farmers, artisans, and chefs, it gathers healthy food, crafts, and a Saturday farmers' market under one roof.

35. Panteon de Guadalupe

Coordinates
20.9235, -100.751
In one line
The Panteón de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is the main cemetery of San Miguel de Allende, opened around 1948. Its elaborate tombs, miniature chapels, and statues fill with flowers, candles, and music each year for the Day of the Dead.

36. Barrio del Valle del Maiz

Coordinates
20.9195, -100.7345
In one line
One of San Miguel's oldest neighborhoods, with roots in its Chichimeca past, the Valle del Maiz keeps living traditions alive through its famous May festival of the Santa Cruz, with dances, fireworks, and processions.

37. Callejon del Pueblito

Coordinates
20.9133, -100.7447
In one line
A short, cobbled lane famed as one of San Miguel's prettiest alleys, the Callejon del Pueblito threads between colonial walls draped in bougainvillea, lined with small shops, galleries, and cafes beneath a little clock arch.

38. Presa de las Colonias

Coordinates
20.904, -100.746
In one line
A shaded green retreat below the town center, Parque Benito Juarez was inaugurated in 1904 on former orchards fed by the springs of El Chorro, with fountains, footbridges, old stone washbasins, and water gathered in reservoirs nearby.

39. Atotonilco Village

Coordinates
21.0045, -100.794
In one line
A small village about 14 kilometers from San Miguel, Atotonilco grew around its famous 18th-century sanctuary, drawing pilgrims, penitents, and travelers seeking its hot springs, with roots reaching back to its independence-era history.

40. Tianguis del Martes

Coordinates
20.901, -100.756
In one line
San Miguel's vast weekly open-air market, held every Tuesday on the edge of town, the Tianguis del Martes sprawls under canopies selling everyday goods, produce, clothing, household items, and street food to locals far from the tourist center.

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