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PACHUGA |
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In recent years, PACHUCA , the capital of Hidalgo state, has burst
out of the ring of hills that once hemmed in the town, its expansion
fuelled by the desperate need to move industry away from Mexico City. By
Mexican standards, though, it remains a fairly small city, its centre
easily walkable and full of colonial mansions built on the profits of
the rich silver-mining country all about. Stick around just long enough
to see the photography museum, but it is worth venturing to nearby towns
where the mining heritage is more apparent and the clean mountain air
provides a refreshing break.
The Town
Nestled below the hills which once provided such a bounty, Pachuca's
zócalo is dominated by the 1910 Reloj Monumental , a forty-metre French
Neoclassical clock tower. There's a good deal more interest at the late
sixteenth-century Ex-Convento |
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