A postcard from Hidalgo (Lando)
  • A postcard from Hidalgo (Lando)
  • A postcard from Hidalgo (Lando)

A postcard from Hidalgo (Lando)

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Date of dispatch : 2014-31-01

Postcard # 953

Country: Mexico

Colonia Villa de Guadalupe (also known as La Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo) is a former separate town, now a neighborhood in northern Mexico City which in 1531 was the site of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the most renowned Marian apparition in the Americas. She can be venerated in the Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine, located in the villa (town). The town was founded in 1563, it was chartered as the city of "Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo" in 1828.