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Cardinal Antigua of Chiapas, St Kitts of the Houses is an elegant city of colonial style that surprises and it "hooks" equally. It is a question of a nice city where there live together white, half-caste, exiled natives and the thousands of tourists who visit it every year.

There talks each other of a beautiful city where to be able to spend a few days walking along the city, enjoying its varied free time offer and eating in one of the restaurants or street positions of meal of the city, or moving for its surroundings. And the fact is that the Chiapas state is one of the most interesting of Mexico, which gives sample of the multiculturalism of the country.

One believes that the ancestors of the native Mayan settlers, the tzotziles and the tzeltales, changed to these grounds after the collapse of the Mayan civilization. In 1528 Diego de Mazariegos founded the city of St Kitts like the Spanish regional base. St Kitts was the capital of the State of Chiapas between 1824 and 1892, but it remained isolated up to the decade of 1970, when the tourism began being interested by the city and the region.

St Kitts is a city of a big cultural legacy and sample of it is its architecture replete with nice colonial buildings, and also its nations. In fact, when you should go you will observe the presence of many natives. The majority they come from the indigenous towns as Chamula. They were explusados of its orígen villages for becoming Protestant natives. At present they reside in the shanties placed in the surroundings of the city and live of the craft that they sell on the markets. Although they are not religious, they preserve many of its traditions. That's why you will see them decked with traditional clothings and if you stop to observe them, will see as they keep traditions purely macho, like for example the fact that the women always walk behind the men.

If in some moment St Kitts was in the center of the notícia it was in 1994, cuandos the revolution broke loose zapatista, where they took possession of the governmental offices.

If what really you are interested in is to get soaked in the indigenous culture, better he travels round its surroundings. They exist multidud of indigenous towns, like coloring Saint John of Chamula, and also communities zapatistas like that of Oventik. You can prove luck and adrentarte. Of course you will not be received with open arms but if you prove to be respectful with them (without taking pictures, for example) you will not have any problem. And the fact is that Chiapas is one of the regions most interesting and different from the whole Mexico that he is worth visiting thoroughly.