Visit San Miguel de Allende

Silver-mining city of candy-coloured houses stacked up a ravine, with streets in tunnels and student minstrels serenading the alleys.

A colonial centre of pink stone and an 18th-century aqueduct of 74 arches, the safest big city in Mexico.

A silver-mining city of pink cantera stone with a cable car over the centre and a mine to walk through.

A pastel walled city built against pirates, the quietest colonial capital in the Yucatan.

Talavera tiles, 70 churches, mole poblano and the Popocatepetl volcano on the horizon.

A cathedral lit up every Saturday, an aqueduct and the monarch butterfly forests two hours away.

A whole town of trulli — conical drystone houses found nowhere else, white and strange in the Puglian sun

Diego Rivera's repainting of the mural Rockefeller destroyed, in the Palacio de Bellas Artes.