Santiago Tianguistenco is a small town in the State of Mexico in Mexico, near the state capital Toluca, accessible by car from Mexico City (the western bus terminal). That cost MXN$55 each way.
Its name Tianguistenco originates from the word “tanguis”, which means a market in the pre-Colombian times, and a tradition that has continued in almost everywhere in Mexico today as informal street markets (usually weekly). Atenco, a former hacienda, is Mexico’s oldest hacienda and where bullfighting was introduced here.
The hacienda was built by the conquistador Cortéz’s cousin, whose family owned the place for 350 years until it was sold to another who developed it to sell products internationally. The bus from the centre to the ex-hacienda cost MXN$13 each way.
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