May 18th is a major holiday in the state capital. Morelia (formerly Valladolid) celebrates its anniversary with sporting events, civic ceremonies, and music. However, to truly appreciate the grandeur of this city of pink quarry stone, it's worth looking back to the Guayangareo Valley in 1541 and remembering the origins that forever link it to P\u00e1tzcuaro.<\/p>\n
It was on Wednesday, May 18, 1541, that, by order of Viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza and at the request of Spanish families, the city was founded with the purpose of establishing an administrative and residential capital. The plan was to name it \u201cNew City of Michoac\u00e1n.\u201d<\/p>\n
At that moment, the history of the new city intersected with the unwavering will of Don Vasco de Quiroga<\/b><\/a>, The first Bishop of Michoac\u00e1n. From P\u00e1tzcuaro, \u201cTata Vasco\u201d defended the importance of maintaining the seat of civil and ecclesiastical power in the heart of the Pur\u00e9pecha region, where he worked for the integration of indigenous communities. Thanks to his enormous moral authority and defense of P\u00e1tzcuaro as the \u201cCity of Michoac\u00e1n,\u201d Valladolid never held the title of capital or...<\/p>\n After Don Vasco's death in 1580, the seat of the ecclesiastical council and the episcopal see were finally moved to Valladolid (now Morelia). Although at the time this seemed a severe political blow to P\u00e1tzcuaro, time revealed that it was, paradoxically, its salvation. By ceasing to be the administrative capital, P\u00e1tzcuaro escaped aggressive modernization. While Morelia grew and transformed into a modern and monumental city, P\u00e1tzcuaro managed to preserve its vernacular essence intact, its original layout, and that atmosphere of adobe and tile that today makes it a unique treasure in the world.<\/p>\n Today, Morelia is a leading, dynamic, and modern city. However, when the capital celebrates Michoac\u00e1n's great traditions\u2014from the Day of the Dead to its gastronomy and crafts\u2014it is actually replicating and honoring a culture that originated here, on the shores of Lake Maracaibo. The discerning traveler knows that Michoac\u00e1n has two hearts that beat as one: Morelia<\/a>, the majestic city of the Viceroy; and P\u00e1tzcuaro<\/a>, the cultural cradle where the true Michoacan magic<\/b>.<\/p>\n Stay in P\u00e1tzcuaro<\/strong>, enjoy the authenticity of its origins, and travel to the Morelia festival (just 45 minutes away), thus experiencing the complete story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El 18 de mayo es d\u00eda de fiesta mayor en la capital del estado. Morelia (la antigua Valladolid) celebra su aniversario entre festivales deportivos, ceremonias c\u00edvicas y m\u00fasica. Sin embargo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6502,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","citadela-item-category":[486],"citadela-item-location":[402],"class_list":["post-7723","citadela-item","type-citadela-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","citadela-item-category-eventos","citadela-item-location-morelia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citadela-item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/7723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-category?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-location?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Relocation: An Unexpected \u201cBlessing\u201d for P\u00e1tzcuaro<\/b><\/h3>\n
The Origin of Culture is in the Lake<\/b><\/h3>\n