Comonfort
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With the most recent designation as a Magical Town, it demonstrates the reason for this distinction with the preservation of the Otomi gastronomy, its ancestral crafts, the molcajete, and the dance of the Chichimec’s Guamares.
Its architectural and cultural heritage is undeniable, the parish church of San Francisco de Asís keeps four altarpieces inside from 1765, It’s civic square in honor of the doctor José María Luis Mora born in this city and this famous Virgen de Los Remedios temple.
In Comonfort there is a wide variety of handcrafts such as mud comals, the ceramics, pieces of reed and its famous molcajetes made with volcanic stone.
There is a culinary jewel, the ceremonial tortilla. Associated with gratitude for the agricultural yield and used in festivities to pay respect and gratitude. This tortilla is stamped with mesquite wood and inked with muicle, a plant with purple colors that complement the ritual to obtain this ancestral offering.
Its gastronomy is made up of typical breads called “fruta de horno”, in addition to the famous vaquita and gaznate.
Currently it is possible to visit the exclusive textile factory that made cashmere suits in the community of Soria.