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More about the Sanctuary of the Broken Christ of San José de Gracia

San José de Gracia, Aguascalientes

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332 years after the founding of the town of San José de Gracia, in Aguascalientes, which was marked by calamity, first, for having suffered a tenacious struggle for land due to the harassment of the landowners of those times and then, in modern times, due to the flooding of its lands with the construction of the Plutarco Elías Calles dam at the beginning of the 20th century, today it is reborn through religious faith, which overflows all year round and especially during Holy Week with the death and resurrection of Christ.

Municipality

San José de Gracia is one of the 11 municipalities of the state of Aguascalientes, it has beautiful tourist places such as the Municipal Palace, located on one side of the Main Plaza, the Bust of Plutarco Elías Calles and that of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, in this Most of the Sierra Fría is located in the municipality, which is considered the great lung of Aguascalientes and its main aquifer from which eco-tourist places such as the Los Alamitos Ecological Camp, the Jocoqui dam, the Plutarco Elías Calles dam, and so on. like the Garden of Zaragoza near the main square, January 6 is the religious celebration of San José de Gracia

Festivities

January 6th is the religious celebration of San José de Gracia, dedicated to corn as a staple food and a product of the region, which has been celebrated since 1915. December 8th is the patronal festival, the day of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception. The entire town maintains the custom of going to bathe in the Calles dam on June 24th, the day of San Juan, since on that day they consider the water to be blessed.


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