Lives the experience of being surrounded by originally walls built in the 18th century

One of the forms of land tenure during the colonial era in Mexico was the hacienda, which dates back to the second half of the sixteenth century and is closely related to the provision of grants and commissions from the Spanish crown to the mainland to the first ventured to settle the newly conquered territory.  When the years pass, these gifts and benefits (which initially consisted of only a few miles of land, an Indian and another few animals for work,) were gradually transformed into a powerful unit of vital importance for the socio-economic development novohispanic world.

We could say that the structure of the haciendas was made up in general, for a residential center called "Casco"; it was the "big house" where the landowner lived with his family. Essential element of any hacienda was the chapel, where religious services are offered to residents of the hacienda.

The Haciendas proliferated throughout the vast country, and depending on your geographic location, there were calls pulqueras, henequeneras, azucareras, and other mezcaleras as their main occupation. As to the Bajio region of Guanajuato, the establishment of these haciendas were closely related to the mining, trade and the Church, why, in what is now the state of Guanajuato, there were basically two types of haciendas The Benefit and Cattle.

HACIENDA OF BENEFIT With the discovery of rich veins of silver the population began to grow disproprtionately with the arrival of miners eager thirst for silver, which resulted in it begin to put into production stays engaged in mining, which were given the name of Profit Haciendas. They carried out the extraction and purification of silver though the "benefit" of quicksilver (mercury).

With time mining haciendas monumental gradually became split due to the increasing demand for housing, were abandoning their principal activity for move into small housing clusters. Towards the end of the XIX century, the city of Guanajuato had been formed on land from which they split and they were giving name to the oldest neighborhoods of the population; haciendas of San Roque, La Escalera, Duran, and many more formed neighborhoods homonyms.

Due to the ongoing advancement of the urban area, most of these buildings have disappeared, but we can still find some hacienda owners helmets adapted to the needs that modern life imposes on us and in our days, is now operating as hotels, museums, spas and , the odd one, is still used as a home of a family in Guanajuato.  Unfortunately, some we can only remember his name.