Mexico
Mineral de Pozos
A silver town that emptied with its mines is filling again with makers.
The ruins have tenants again. Around the broken hacienda walls and mine heads, galleries and workshops have moved into the lanes, and the town that emptied with the silver is filling with makers.
Mineral de Pozos preserves mine architecture and ruined haciendas from its silver boom, its decline into near-abandonment now reversed by a revived arts community with galleries and signed heritage routes. Unsecured shafts remain hazards rather than attractions, entered only with authorised guides. The high-desert table keeps to enchiladas mineras and colonche, the region's cactus-fruit ferment.
Couple
Wander the ruins and galleries, then stay for the high-desert night sky.
Solo
Walk the signed heritage routes and talk your way into the workshops.
- Mineral de Pozos preserves mine architecture, ruined haciendas and a revived arts community.
- Galleries, workshops and signed heritage routes give the former mining town a full walking circuit.
- Unsecured shafts are hazards, entered only with an authorised guide.
The revived town's kitchens keep to enchiladas mineras, the mining country's old plate.
Colonche, the fermented drink of pulque and red prickly pear, is the high desert's own glass.
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