What’s on in April in San Miguel de Allende?

April successful San Miguel de Allende is simply a period filled with soul-stirring tradition, celebration, and reflection. At the bosom of it each is Semana Santa, 1 of the city’s astir revered observances, taking spot this twelvemonth from April 13 to April 20. 

Throughout the week, the streets capable with almighty expressions of faith, expansive processions, melodramatic reenactments and moving ceremonies that immerse the municipality successful a breathtaking show of spirituality and heritage. This period besides brings thought-provoking talks, joyful concerts, delicious festivals and opportunities to link with quality and community. Here’s a roundup of what’s happening successful San Miguel de Allende this April.

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Date: April 3 astatine 4 p.m.
Location: Teatro Santa Ana, Relox 50A, Centro
Cost: 280 pesos

The Iranian Sufi Path of Love

(Teatro Santa Ana)

Discover the Nimatullahi Spiritual School and the Iranian Sufi Path of Love done an enlightening speech that offers a deeper knowing of the Persian Sufi contented rooted successful spirituality, work and divine love. 

This acquisition lecture explores the essence of the Nimatullahi Sufi bid arsenic a spiritual subject dedicated to selfless work and emotion of each quality beings. Contemporary poems by Sufi masters volition beryllium recited, accompanied by euphony to make a serene and reflective atmosphere. It’s a unsocial accidental to larn astir its teachings and acquisition the quality of its poetic and philharmonic expressions.

Date: April 4 astatine 4p.m.
Location: Sala Quetzal successful La Biblioteca, Insurgentes 25, Centro
Cost: 220 pesos

Rising Moon Concert

(Audubon de México)

Celebrate a decennary of inspiring biology acquisition astatine the Rising Moon Concert, a joyful evening of music, nature, and assemblage successful enactment of Audubon de México’s Niños y Naturaleza program. This inaugural brings nationalist schoolhouse children into nonstop interaction with the earthy world, sparking curiosity, compassion and a lifelong committedness to protecting the Earth and its creatures.

Set successful a stunning open-air amphitheater with sweeping views of the Picacho mountains, the evening features unrecorded euphony by Karen Libby and impermanent musicians. Bring a picnic, your favourite beverage, and a broad to bask the performance nether the stars. Cushioned seat seating and immoderate tables and chairs are disposable connected a first-come basis, but the grassy tract is cleanable for spreading out.

Date: April 4 astatine 5:30 p.m.
Location: Sunset Theater, Calle Amatista No 8, Loma del Salto de Canal
Cost: 1,000 pesos Tickets

Fermented Fest Wine Fair

(Evenbritte)

Fermente Fest is simply a unsocial lawsuit that brings unneurotic producers of natural, low-intervention, integrated and biodynamic wines, arsenic good arsenic kombuchas, ciders, and pulque. This festival showcases beverages portion celebrating cleanable agriculture and fermentation arsenic an past yet evolving craft. 

Conceived arsenic a abstraction for producers to link with restaurateurs, hoteliers, and the wide public, this festival highlights however these products nourish the assemblage portion respecting the situation and reflecting the region’s identity.

Date: April 5, 12 to 8 p.m.
Location: Foro el Obraje, Calzada de la Presa 50, Centro
Cost: 450 pesos 

Traída del Señor de la Columna

(Governemnt of San Miguel de Allende)

Every year, connected the 5th Sunday of Lent, San Miguel de Allende honors 1 of its astir cherished traditions: the Procession of Our Lord of the Column. This yearly pilgrimage sees a life-size statue of Christ made from accepted Chichimeca materials brought to the metropolis by much than 25,000 faithful, who locomotion the 12 kilometers from the Santuario de Jesús Nazareno successful Atotonilco to the Templo de San Juan de Dios successful San Miguel. 

The travel begins astatine midnight with psalms and chants, arsenic lanterns and candles airy the way adorned with balloons, flowers and colorful sawdust carpets. 

This spiritual procession has been a cherished section contented since 1823, erstwhile residents brought the statue from Atotonilco successful hunt of extortion from an epidemic. This pilgrimage has continued uninterrupted for implicit 200 years, adjacent during the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War, erstwhile the statue had to beryllium transported secretly to debar confiscation oregon destruction. 

The astir fashionable viewing spots see the city’s bluish entrance, wherever crowds stitchery earlier dawn, and the Templo de San Juan de Dios, wherever a peculiar wide is held astatine 8 a.m. El Señor de la Columna remains successful San Miguel until the Wednesday aft Easter, erstwhile the faithful travel the statue connected its instrumentality travel to its location successful Atotonilco.

You tin articulation the section assemblage successful a beauteous enactment of devotion by helping make the monumental sawdust rug that welcomes El Señor de la Columna connected his way to the Templo de San Juan de Dios on Calle San Antonio Abad connected April 5 astatine 4 p.m.  

Date: April 6 astatine 8 a.m.
Location: Templo de San Juan de Dios, San Antonio Abad, Barrio de San Juan, Centro
Cost: Free

Spiritual Journeys Concert

Chorale San Miguel presents “Spiritual Journeys,” a moving outpouring performance of choral masterpieces successful solemnisation of Lent and Holy Week astatine the Templo de la Tercera Orden. Featuring Bach’s cantata “King of Heaven, welcome!”, Orlando Gibbons’ “Hosanna to the Son of David,” the evocative choral works of San Miguel-based composer Michael Hoppé and Ola Gjeilo’s “Luminous Night of the Soul.”

This show volition diagnostic the Templo de la Tercera Orden’s historical 1875 Johnson organ accompanied by a enclosure orchestra, filling the religion with affluent resonances. This performance offers an accidental to acquisition ineffable euphony spanning centuries, performed successful 1 of San Miguel de Allende’s astir stunning venues. This performance is intended to delight classical euphony enthusiasts and radical looking for a meaningful mode to clasp the tone of the season.

Date: April 11 astatine 6 p.m.
Location: Templo de la Tercera Orden, San Francisco 14, Centro
Cost: US $16 to 36

Friday of Sorrows

(María Ruiz)

For residents of San Miguel, Semana Santa starts with mounting up elaborate altars dedicated to the Virgin of Sorrows successful their homes, storefronts, and nationalist spaces. These altars, filled with candles, flowers and symbolic elements, bespeak Mary’s sorrow implicit Christ’s suffering. As you rotation done municipality admiring the heartfelt displays, you’ll beryllium treated to refreshing aguas frescas, crystal pops and accepted candied chilacayote. The Oratorio de San Felipe Neri holds a peculiar wide wherever the clergyman blesses images of the Virgin to beryllium placed connected these altars.

Date: April 11, each day
Location: Throughout the Historic Center and astatine Oratorio de Felipe Neri
Cost: Free

Palm Sunday

(Benditas)

Palm Sunday, oregon Domingo de Ramos, is simply a profoundly meaningful observance that marks the opening of Holy Week, commemorating Jesus’ entranceway into Jerusalem. In San Miguel de Allende, determination are galore processions culminating astatine large churches, including the Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel, Templo del Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, and Templo de San Francisco. The time begins astatine 6:30 a.m. with the Procesión y Misa con el Señor del Triunfo, followed by the Procesión y Bendición de las Palmas astatine 11 a.m. Skillful artisans weave thenar leaves into intricate designs that they merchantability successful the streets astir the churches. 

Date: April 13, each day
Location: Throughout municipality and astatine the main churches
Cost: Free 

La Quema de Judas

(Benditas)

On Easter Sunday astatine noon, the country successful beforehand of San Miguel de Allende’s Palacio Municipal bursts to beingness with the fiery spectacle known arsenic the Burning of Judas, which marks the adjacent of Holy Week. Large crowds stitchery to ticker arsenic papier-mâché effigies representing devils, infamous nationalist figures oregon politicians are hung  and packed with fireworks. Booms and triumphant cheers observe the symbolic demolition of evil and betrayal with a consciousness of corporate catharsis and renewal.

Date: April 20 astatine 12:00 p.m.
Location: In beforehand of the Palacio Municipal, Principal 8, Centro
Cost: Free

Sandra Gancz Kahan is a Mexican writer and translator based successful San Miguel de Allende who specializes successful intelligence wellness and humanitarian aid. She believes successful the powerfulness of connection to foster compassion and knowing crossed cultures. She tin beryllium reached at [email protected]