Mexico Report Home > Guanajuato Guanajuato - Tunnel Town Guanajuato (juan-a-wa-toe), can truly be described as a colonial jewel. Nestled in the hills of central Mexico this quaint town has a timeless appearance and a rich history. With its unique tunnel system placing speeding cars several stories below ground in a confusing maze of passages, and a bustling university population, it is a city like no other. We visited the Museo y Casa de Diego Rivera (the birthplace of Diego Rivera), a famous and talented muralist, who was very controversial because he espoused Marxism. In the evenings everyone in town gathers in the main square to watch clowns and comics work for coins. Or, our favorite, to watch the competing acoustic bands dressed in Shakespearian fashions battle to see who can literally steal the show! Each group performs three to four songs, and on the last song, marches out of the circle formed by the crowd, trying to take some of the audience with them on a musical tour of the village. We missed the bizarre Museo de las Momias, displaying local corpses which have been naturally mummified by minerals in the soil of Guanajuato. The unlucky mummies on display were exhumed after their families failed to pay a reburial tax to the state, then the lease on their graves expired! ...there's always "next time."