Guanajuato

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988 alongside its adjacent silver mines — one of which once supplied two-thirds of the world's silver — Guanajuato is a colonial city in central Mexico whose narrow, winding streets and underground thoroughfares wind through a tight valley packed with pink and green sandstone churches, plazas, and mansions. The city also hosts the Festival Internacional Cervantino, hosts the Mummy Museum, and was the site of the first battle of the Mexican War of Independence at the Alhóndiga de Granaditas.

• Population72,237
• Nearest water from center0.8 km
• Nearest mountain from center2.3 km
• UNESCO within 50 km5