Hidalgo Travel Guide
The basalt prisms of Santa Maria Regla, Hidalgo. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Hidalgo is the mining state on Mexico City's doorstep, with an unusual Cornish heritage: 19th-century miners from Cornwall left pasties (pastes), football and mining museums in Real del Monte. The state's landscapes run from the basalt prisms of Santa Maria Regla to the Toltec statues of Tula.
Pachuca, the capital, is the windy city of the great Reloj Monumental clock tower. Real del Monte and Huasca are classic weekend escapes from the capital.
Destinations in Hidalgo
Prismas BasalticosThe towering basalt columns with waterfalls at Santa Maria Regla.
Tula and the AtlantesThe Toltec capital's giant warrior statues atop the pyramid.
Real del MonteThe Cornish mining town: pastes, the English cemetery and mining museum.
Huasca de OcampoThe first pueblo magico: haciendas and the prisms nearby.
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Top Cities & towns in Hidalgo
Regional food
- Pastes: the Cornish pasty turned Hidalgo staple
- Barbacoa de borrego, the Sunday pit-cooked lamb
Getting there
Pachuca is about 90 minutes by bus from Mexico City's Indios Verdes terminal. Tula is an hour northwest of Pachuca; the prisms about 40 minutes northeast.