San Marcos Church
It began to build before 1655, to the doctor's Manuel Colón de Larreategui initiative, it remained unconcluded for more than 100 years until ended completely in 1765.
The façade has a churrigueresque sober baroque style with 3 parts. In the second part, we have a stained glass of the image of the Carmen virgin or Virgen del Carmen. The sumptuous bell tower is has two parts. We profit of this tower to emphasise the baroque magnificence. On every side, walls are supported by solid buttresses.

Inside we have only one nave with a floor in the shape of a Latin cross. In the presbyterium we have the biggest altar having a neoclassic style. In the middle of the presbyterium we the virgin of Carmen or Virgen del Carmen and up, we have the sculpture of San Marcos.

Monumental Bullring
Constructed in 1974, with a capacity for about 9000 spectators.
In the following years their facilities were notably improved, Joining the set of the Expoplaza in 1992. Nowadays it has a capacity for 15000 people and the best exponents of the bullfighting art have been here. To the north of there is statue of Armillita, The most famous bullfighter of Aguascalientes.
In the front face a beautiful balustrade, divided in three clearings by quarry columns with classic reminiscences points out the rests of the stairways. In the superior part, worked in quarry, it shines the shield of Aguascalientes
Their architecture and ornamentation consist of symbolic religious elements and its own motives of the bullfights. The chapel was remodeled; space full of meaning where one can find an image of the black Christ of the Encino, Employer of the local bullfighters.

José Guadalupe Posada Museum
Beside the Encino Temple, in which it used to be the cultural house of the mentioned temple, the museum in honor of the famous engraver , Jose Guadalupe Posada (born in 1852) was installed.
Its wide halls and show rooms were adapted to exhibit the original work of the engraver, which revolutionary themes are a festive critic to the governmental regimen of its age. The central yard, hosts cultural events every Sunday afternoon, with the participation of independent groups and the cultural Institute of Aguascalientes.

Aguascalientes Museum
Used to be known as “Escuela Normal del Estado” (State School for Teaching), was built in 1903 and it was rebuild and enlarged from 1915 to 1916 by José Refugio Reyes; of neo classical style, outstands a portico made out of groove capital compounds columns.
Due to the IV centenary of the foundation of the city, in October of 1975 the state open the museum in this edification after being condition for this use. The reason to turn this place into a museum was to recognize the work of the most outstanding plastic artists of Aguascalientes. This way it is possible to admire some of the most beautiful sculptures of Jesús F. Contreras. Specially the "Malgre Tout" (After all..) reproduced in plastic materials and its original it is in the Alameda in Mexico city. This work was internationally awarded in Paris France ; the name of the sculpture was given to it, due to the amputation of the right arm of the artist. Consequence to an infection before finishing its master piece. There are also exhibitions from the work of Francisco Díaz de León; paintings by Gabriel Fernández Ledezma and the work of Saturnino Herrán “El más pintor de los mexicanos y más mexicano de los pintores“(“the most painter of the Mexican and the most Mexican of the painters“). there are temporal contemporarily painting and sculpture exhibitions all year long.

The Railroad Station
The building was begun to construct in 1910 and it was inaugurated in 1911, was work of Italian engineer G.M. Buzzo. It is of Californian colonial style, although also it has elements of Hispanic influence. The arrangement is of two levels and cover of roofing tile with four slopes. It is made up of a porch acces with waiting rooms and packing service in the first level, where is a cafeteria. The second level, separated of first by an aileron supported by great metallic brackets, is assigned for office services.
This building is a clear example of the railway architecture, in which a series of prefabricated construction equipments were used, imported from the United States, introduced to our country by boat and brought via railroad.
Until the 40´s, it was a custom very rooted between the local families, almost in ritual, to go the afternoons to the station, to take a walk by its platforms and to wait for the arrival or exit of the trains, to listen to the local band and to wait for the new news brought to the city by means of the mail that transported the railroad.

Square of The Trhee Centuries
It has been converted in an important tourist complex, recreational offering services. It has an essence eminently historical based on the railway tradition that distinguishing the entity.
The place of Tres Centurias, has the following attractions: Civic Place or Plaza Cívica with a pole flag monumental in the road of Madero, a parking, a warehouse and a station, where we have the railway museum or Museo del Ferrocarril; a place of commercial and gastronomic services in the Express edifice, the esplanade of the springs next door to the station garden, the monument of the vapour machine, the small place of the whistle. In add we can admire the dancing fountains, the sole of this kind of the state and of course artistic, cultural and recreational events for all the family.

San Antonio Church
It is a masterwork of José Refugio Reyes. It is an amalgam of various architectonic styles, done harmoniously with green, yellow and pink quarry of the region. The façade of the church has octagonal (ochavado) parts on two levels. On every side of the central tower we have small towers having a circular floor and one section.
Behind the temple, there is a beautiful double cupola. The cupola having bunches is finished off by a lantern with helix capitals and a sphere. The a Latin Cross shaped ground has columns medium-sized, where among the ornaments we have great medallions done with quarry having a voussoir (arch bricks) having an angel face, where we have images of the life of Saint Anthony or San Antonio.
The “pechinas”, harmoniously decorated with geometric relieves and small flowers, have fresco paintings of the evangelists.
Behind the temple, the chapel is consecrated to Santa Rita de Casia and to the Saint Tomb or Santo Sepulcro.

Antique France Hotel
It ordered it to build the farmer Felipe Nieto in 1917, their function had always been that of hotel. After 80 years of service the hotel France closed its doors to open up in 1998 as Sanborn´s Francia. During decades the favorite hotel of the personalities of the political and artistic world that they enjoyed Don Juan Andrea Borbolla attentions was. In the lobby of the hotel, composer Juan S. Garrido April 25 of 1943, he wrote the song The Fight of Roosters (La Pelea de Gallos).

Museum of Contemporary Art
The warehouse "El Número# 8" opened its doors in 1918. Since than its location has been the corner of Morelos Street and Primo Verdad in the state of Aguascalientes. The name of the place was decided because the rural state # 8 used to be there in the street that was called Independencia, also because the new owner , José de Jesús Rábago, was born in the 8 th day of the 8 th month of 1888. Mr. Rábago acquire the rural state almost new due to its construction date that was in 1901.
That counts with 6 show rooms. In the "Jesús F. Contreras" show room you can observe works from the contemporary plastic art of Mexico. These were rewarded works from the Young Encounter of Arts; in another show room you can find the work of Enrique Guzmán Villagómez, a recognized artist due to his interesting form of expression. In the Arts Library exhibition room, there are works of photographers for every bodies taste and knowledge.

El Señor del Encino Church
The priest José de Arteaga obtained this lot to erect a chapel, which was probably dedicated to the Archangel Saint Michael, on October 4 th 1764. The building of the present temple initiated on January 12 th 1773. It was dedicated to the Lord of the Oak on March 10 th and 11 th 1796. Every year on November 13 th comes out the popular fervour in honor and glory to the black Christ of the Oak, that commemorates its miraculous apparition: It is said, that aresident of the city, as he was cutting the trunk of an oak, found within it the figure of Jesus Christ. On June 19 th 1854 the church was ascended to parish church. A public clock was placed on it on February 19 th 1878. The temple is situated in the heart of one of the oldest neighborhoods with the highest tradition in Aguascalientes.
Its wonderful large paintings on the side walls really strike the attention of the guest. It is a Way of the Cross, a collection realized in 1798 by the master Andrés Lopez.

News
Official Bulletins
Bulletin