Founded by Jesuits businessman in the XVI Century. Mining pozos produced, gold, silver, mercury, it had two glory times that transformed the geography of this place, located at "Sierra Gorda" in the estate of Guanajuato. During the XVII century, under the Spaniard domination, and second  in the porfirian time

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   In more than 4 centuries of evolution, starting from the mineral production, pozos  shows us today, trough its ruins, the technology used in the starts of the mining process of the new Spain, even the use of steam machines that increased the  mineral production100 hundred years ago and caused pozos to increases the number of people living there, over 35000. Today there is only 1500 people living there.

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   Between centenary ovens where gold and silver where separated from other minerals. The patios where people worked and got the precious stones. To the channels where the hot steaming mercury passed, the old mining walls, and benefit haciendas. Still tell us about this magical town that just won’t disappear.

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   Miners like Don Raymundo, devoted to Mineral de Pozos, keep the past of a glorious town turned to cultural patrimony, and living nostalgic of a town that went down because of the political and economical conflicts of the past century.

Ideal place for a photographic exploration of the past transformed in ruins that remain expectant for a new a rise of the community through art, tradition and alternative tourism.

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  Between new art galleries and artisans Workshops, in pozos you can recognize its mining past trough almost natural collection of minerals, metamorphic rocks and semi precious rocks. In Parallel, we can find sculpture on metamorphic stones workshops, paintings full of light, and instruments inspires in prehispanic instruments of Mesoamerica indigenes, chichimecas, mexicas, mayas, toltecas, resouning with the new cosmic and mystical time that you can feel in this magical land.

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