<p class="p1">Twilight descends over San Miguel de Allende in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.</p><p class="p1">Read more about Mexico and writer Peter McBride’s quest to track down a famous ancestor in “The Granny Diaries” in the November 2013 issue of <em>National Geographic Traveler</em> (<a href="https://secure.customersvc.com/servlet/Show?WESPAGE=OrderPages/tr/1304/order_15A1.jsp&amp;MSRSMAG=TR&amp;EK1=TRAJ">subscribe here</a>).</p>

Colonial Skyscrapers

Twilight descends over San Miguel de Allende in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.

Read more about Mexico and writer Peter McBride’s quest to track down a famous ancestor in “The Granny Diaries” in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic Traveler (subscribe here).

Photograph by Peter McBride

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History and tradition are part of everyday life in central Mexico.

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