5 Tips to Make the Most of the Festival Cervantino

This year’s Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato features more than 2,300 artists and 25 nations from 5 continents in venues throughout the colonial city of Guanajuato.  Here are five tips to help you enjoy the Festival:

1. Stay an extra day or two. If your concert starts at 9:00pm, spend the night in Guanajuato.  Have dinner, stroll through the streets following the Estudiantina (student singers and entertainers in period costumes) and enjoy the city at night.
2. Try a new restaurant. Check Cervantino guide.  We’ve recommended several restaurants in the city close to the event venues.
3. Visit the Pipila Monument. For a birds-eye view of the city, take the ride up to the top of the city to see the monument to Pipila, a hero in the Mexican war for independence.  Walk down through the winding streets and enjoy Guanajuato at its best!
4. Kiss your sweetheart on Callejón del Beso. The kissing street.  Guanajuato is known as the kissing capital of Mexico.
5. Attend an event at Teatro Juárez. If you can’t make it to a concert or play in this theater during the Cervantino, stop by for a visit during the day.  It’s located in the heart of Guanajuato in front of the Jardín de Union.

Read the Explore & Go Mexico Guide to the Cervantino for recommended events, places to stay, restaurants and activities during the 2009 Festival Internacional Cervantino.

Resources:

• Explore & Go Mexico Guanajuato Guide
• Cervantino Guide (in English)
• Official Festival Internacional Cervantino website (in Spanish)