Zacatecas, Mexico
The city of Zacatecas is colorful and eclectic, like all of Mexico. These ancient lands were inhabited 10 thousand years ago, when the Guachichili Indians and Zacatecas (from the word “sacatl”, meaning a variety of local grass) mined metals here. The Spaniards, who came in the 16th century through Guadalajara, built the mines of Our Lady of Remedios for the extraction of silver and lead, and later opened a Catholic parish and gave the place an ornate name: Noble and…