Categoría: History

The importance of the program to conserve and restore the temples built during the missionary period of Baja California Sur makes it indispensable to have a vocabulary that serves as the basis for the nomenclature of the architectural elements. As a reference guide and to complement traveler guides, this brief section provides some definitions. Abacus:
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BIRTHPLACE OF CULINARY TRADITIONS Native Food The historical roots of Southern Californian cuisine contain similarities between dishes from Sonora, Sinaloa and Jalisco, the heirs of the food of New Spain and Spain. During the missionary era, the Jesuits introduced wheat, corn, beans, lentils, chickpeas, squash, zapote, millet, pomegranates, lemons, plums, cabbage, lettuce, sugar cane, rice,
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A storage structure located on the roof of an old building known as El Sorbazo was, for many years, the place of refuge for much of the documented history of the California Peninsula. In addition to humidity and mildew, there was damage to this valuable legacy that came from a long time ago. Several filibustering
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The horizon always seems to be in our way … it moves when we move … Like other lands, the Scented Soil of Sudcalifornia forged singular, unique characters with certain characteristics that symbolized the way of life of most of the settlers. “I was born in what is now the library of San José del
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