Downtown area of San Miguel de Allende. Copyright: Mexico Tourism Board

Mexico is one of the world´s favourite MICE destinations. Events and meetings in Mexico promise diversity as well as unique and authentic experiences. There are 71 major convention and exhibition centres across the nation and more than half a million hotel rooms in over 3 000 quality hotels. Destinations across the country can cater for every meeting planners needs and range from cosmopolitan cities, mountainous landscapes, colonial towns and seaside villages. In this blog we present you Mexico´s top MICE destinations themed “Mexico meeting destinations”. Today let’s picture the favourite destination of December, chosen by Mexico Tourism Board: San Miguel de Allende.

The city of San Miguel de Allende counts about 70.000 inhabitants and is located in the eastern part of the state Guanajuato, central Mexico. Founded in 1542 and best known as “The heart of Mexico” it shows up with magnificent, tourists attracting baroque and neoclassical colonial structures. It is significant for its religious and civil architecture of different trends and styles. The cosmopolitan city is wealthy in culture and a cardinal point for international tourism and meetings. Since the year 2002 the city belongs to the magical places, pueblos mágicos, which are extraordinary and charismatic places of interests in Mexico. In 2008 the city was added to the list of UNESCO world heritages.

For your event you can choose between first class business hotels. Directly in the downtown area you find the five starred Done Urraca Hotel & Spa with 32 guest rooms, a bar, a restaurant and an own garden that can get re-decorated for events and business meetings. You can also rent the in-house wine cellar and have your meeting in a special event area. One kilometre southwards you reach the Rosewood San Miguel de Allende with a rooftop tapas bar as well as luxury and spa facilities. Six meeting rooms are spread on 1.400 square metres, the largest room on 350 square metres. The Hotel Real De Minas in the southern city area houses 218 guest rooms and features nine meetings room with an overall event capacity of 7.900 square metres. It offers tennis and spa facilities and invites to a delicious dinner in its in-house restaurant. The Hotel Mision San Miguel de Allende in the eastern part counts three more guest rooms and features two meeting rooms.

The downtown area stands out with a well preserved historic center showing buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Eye-catcher is among others the Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel cathedral, made of pink-coloured stones. During the 19th century the building was remodelled on Ulm minster, a German Lutheran church. Through the vivid streets of San Miguel, there are all kinds of festivals during the hole year, pilgrimages, ringing church bells, all night vigils, fireworks and so on.

From the downtown area you need a car drive of one hour to arrive at Querétaro International Airport, next to Santiago de Querétaro in the south of San Miguel de Allende.

Sources and more information: Mexico Tourism Board, Cvent, HRS, Wikipedia

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