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A private walking tour through Guanajuato's university, Baratillo Square, Mercado Hidalgo, and its famous underground tunnels.
A private walking tour of Guanajuato covering the university, Baratillo Square, Mercado Hidalgo, and the city's real underground tunnel network, with stories of its silver-mining past.
Discover the city of Guanajuato and its monuments on this private walking tour, available from just 1 person. Walk through colonial architecture and learn the history of the city, stopping at main points of interest such as the university, Baratillo Square, the Hidalgo market, and a local museum. Hear tales of the history of silver mining and wander through the abandoned underground tunnel network.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meets in downtown Guanajuato City — exact meeting point confirmed at booking.
Walk past the University of Guanajuato and through the historic Baratillo Square.
Visit Guanajuato's grand Art Nouveau-era market hall.
Wander through part of the city's genuinely unique abandoned underground street tunnels.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private walking tour of Guanajuato covering the university, Baratillo Square, Mercado Hidalgo, and the city's real underground tunnel network, with stories of its silver-mining past. Discover the city of Guanajuato and its monuments on this private walking tour, available from just 1 person. Walk through colonial architecture and learn the history of the city, stopping at main points of interest such as the university, Baratillo Square, the Hidalgo market, and a local museum. Hear tales of the history of silver mining and wander through the abandoned underground tunnel network.
This walk's first real stop, the University of Guanajuato, has a genuinely layered history behind its grand stone staircase. The institution traces back to 1732, when Josefa Teresa de Busto y Moya donated her own home to house a Jesuit hospice; by 1744 the Spanish Crown had licensed it as a proper college. The Jesuits were expelled from New Spain in 1767, halting construction with barely a floor built, and the school sat closed until it reopened in 1785 under a new name, the Colegio de la Purísima Concepción. It kept changing names as Mexico itself changed — becoming the National College of Guanajuato in 1867 — before finally taking its current name, the University of Guanajuato, in 1945.
Baratillo Square, the tour's next stop, centers on a 19th-century Florentine bronze fountain with an unlikely backstory: it was one of three such fountains gifted to the state of Guanajuato in 1864 by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg, the European royal installed as Emperor of Mexico during the French intervention. It originally stood in the city's main plaza before being moved here in 1893. The square's own name is older still, dating to its colonial-era role as a spot for cheap flower, fruit, and vegetable stalls.
Mercado Hidalgo, the market hall on this route, began construction in 1904 on the site of a former bullring and opened in 1910 under President Porfirio Díaz. Its design involved the workshop of French engineer Gustave Eiffel, of Eiffel Tower fame — the building's iron-and-glass structure was originally planned as a train station before being adapted into the market it is today, clock tower and all, built in part directly over the river.
The underground tunnels this tour walks through aren't a tourist gimmick — they're real mining-era engineering. Guanajuato sits at the bottom of a ravine, and from the 16th century on, miners dug tunnels to divert the Guanajuato River and keep seasonal flooding from drowning the town below. The longest of these, the La Galereña tunnel, was carved out in the early 19th century using the same blasting techniques developed in the silver mines. In the 1960s, as car traffic outgrew the narrow surface streets, engineers dug the river even deeper into a new channel and paved the emptied-out original tunnels into an underground road system — freeing the streets above for the pedestrians this walking tour relies on.
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