Photos by David Bacon
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE (9/29/14) -- During the town fiesta of San Miguel de Allende musicians and food stalls line the streets at night. The fiesta includes a blessing of the horses from surrounding ranches. Then the town sets off two sets of fireworks. In one handmade paper mache dolls explode while young people rush to collect the pieces. At night big fireworks are set off on tall towers in the zocalo while the crowd watches.
San Miguel was the first town liberated from Spanish rule in 1810 by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and Ignacio Allende (for whom the town is named) in Mexico's War of Independence. The muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros taught at the art school founded here during the presidency of General Lazaro Cardenas.
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