Lapidary Arts and Crafts and the Opal Mine
Located 20 km (12.5 miles) from San Juan del Rio. San Juan Del Río, Querétaro
San Juan del Río's lapidary artists are masters at cutting opal, a semiprecious stone extracted from the nearby mines.
Before the Hospital of San Juan de Dios, the image so venerated in these times was captured in ...
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The first church of San Juan del Rio is opposite what is now the Founders Plaza but was then th...
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Built in 1711 on the narrowest part of the river as rising water hindered the passage of carava...
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