About Hidalgo del Parral
Located south Chihuahua city, Hidalgo del Parral is one of the most important cities of the state. The city has an intense past so much historical as economical, being a witness of important events that marked the country, as well as in this city took place an important mining complex, aspects that have been transformed into tourist attractions.
Hidalgo del Parral has, proudly, one of the most complete files of the North of Mexico and the South of the United States, its Historical/Colonial file.
Among the main tourist attractions that this community offers, are:
- The Door of Time (La Puerta del Tiempo)
- Elisa Grienssen House (casa Elisa Grienssen)
- Stallforth House (Casa Stallforth)
- Documentation Center (Centro de Documentación)
- "La Prieta" Museum Mines (Museo Mina La Prieta)
- Museum of Sacred Art
- General Francisco Villa Museum
- Principal Square
- Weapons Square (Plaza de armas)
- Guadalupe's Cathedral and the Temple of Our Lady Rosario de Fatima.
Due to the fact that it gives a strong impulse to sports, the tourist who wants to see interesting events or exercise himself, he can go to :
- La Huerta Sports Unit
- CNOP Sports unit
- Rural Club (Club Campestre)
- Rural Club “Casa Blanca”
- Feminine Sports Club
- Club Rio de Janeiro
- Club 40-60
- Commercial Bank league
- Municipal Stadium "Valente Chacón"
- Stadium “Marcos D. Fowler“
- Great Stadium “Parral” and the Baseball Kids Stadium
All this without counting the aquatic attractions that City Camargo offers, only 145 km away:
- Ojo Caliente
- Lake Hill (Lago Colina)
- Los Filtros
- "La Boquilla" Dam (Presa La Boquilla)
- Places where the fishing is practised and there are boat promenades.
In the municipal cemetery remains yet the quarry tablet that covered Pancho Villa's tomb, before his remains were moved to the Mexico City.
Francisco Villa has been one of the most remembered heroes of the Mexican Revolution, in Hidalgo del Parral, like in others localities of Chihuahua.
The general was harvesting power and charm, although was in Parral precisely where he was killed, place that nowadays keeps the museum in his name. This is the reason for the people remember him fondly.
Visiting Hidalgo del Parral will surprise you, due to its historical past, its typical traditions of the Mexican North, and for the important growth that places this city as one of the main ones of Chihuahua's State.
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