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In addition, despite its compact size, downtown Guanajuato finds room for some 20 museums and galleries, plus three indoor theaters and several outdoor performance spaces, including the town baseball stadium. Also, just ten minutes from downtown, are the State Auditorium.
The city is also home to the state’s foremost and largest educational institution, the University of Guanajuato, renowned for its dizzying entrance staircase (above) and the Basilica Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de Guanajuato, host to the oldest sculpture of the Virgin Mary in the Americas. Tens of thousands of students from all over the world flock to the city each year, making this one of the liveliest and most cosmopolitan cities in all Mexico, famed for both its educational excellence, its nightlife, and its friendliness to visitors.
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