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La vendedora de libros
In this place, you will be able to find a variety of books for any age, style, and taste. With a calm and warm atmosphere. You will be able to find photos of old Santa Rosalía as well as books about our history. Also, there are handmade products for sale, as a memento of your visit to Santa Rosalía. The book seller has hours of: Monday to Friday - 10 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon. Saturday - 12 in the afternoon to 8 at night. Open every day, except Sunday. You can find
May 231 min read


Biblioteca Mahatma Gandhi
The Mahatma Gandhi Library is one of the libraries with a background history, being a historical heritage of Santa Rosalía, Pueblo Mágico. Mahatma Gandhi started as a project of a young man named "Paul Antoni Peilloin Asiain" who was a student at the University of Sonora. After a long construction effort, the library was inaugurated on February 15, 1965. Mahatma Gandhi has had a variety of librarians, and one of the first was "Ramon Cota Martínez" and later it was "Flora Zerm
May 231 min read


Iglesia Santa Barbara
Our Church of Santa Barbara, located in the center of our magical town, is a unique and charming work for our community. The Church of Santa Barbara arrived on the coasts of Santa Rosalía in 1895, where it arrived by mistake in our Magical Town, Santa Rosalía. This work was directed by Gustavo Eiffel, the famous creator of the "Eiffel Tower" located in Paris, France. Our Church of Santa Barbara arrived by the ship called "San Juan" and in 1997 it was assembled in the centra
May 151 min read


Panadería El Boleo
The Bakery El Boleo arrived in Santa Rosalía because the French missed the taste of France, they missed French cuisine. So in 1901, the company "Compagne Du Boleo" founded the Bakery El Boleo on the lands of Santa Rosalía, where they prepared and baked bread in wood-fired ovens. And today, being some of the best bread, everyone who comes cannot leave without buying some. You can find our QR on this site!
May 151 min read


Mesa Francia
Mesa Francia was the place where the French lived, houses that they built on the infrastructure that they had been creating and spreading throughout Santa Rosalía, which today remain intact and preserved for tourist viewing. Being a very quiet place, with the locomotives that were used by the French company "Compagne Du Boleo," you can also find the stables that the French used to get around Santa Rosalía, as well as the wagon in which they processed materials, such as "Chry
May 151 min read


Antigua Fundicion
What was done in the Old Foundry was a mixture of plaster, coal, and copper, with coal and plaster being the most fundamental, as they helped raise the temperature to 1,100 degrees Celsius, almost reaching lava. What happened in this place was that the wagons full of copper material arrived at the foundry where they were left on the unloading floor, and then poured into the "reverberatory furnace," which was heated to 1,100 degrees Celsius. While this was happening, the copp
May 151 min read


Las playas negras
Las Playas Negras is a historic, well-known, and representative place of Santa Rosalía, having its own song called "Las Playas Negras" created by Los Cadetes De Linares. This beach became black sand due to slag, where it is not black sand, but it is slag. The way the slag arrived on the shores of Santa Rosalía was because of El Chute and La Fundición. When the slag arrived at the chute where it was stored for a time, it was sent by ships to the deepest point of the Sea of C
May 151 min read


Parque El trenecito
The park El Trenecito is located in Nopalera, and this was a work commissioned by our president Edith Aguilar Villavicencio, who chose a very smart place to locate this project. The park El Trenecito is called that because it has a locomotive that was used by the company "Compagne Du Boleo," where this locomotive was reconstructed for the view of all the public. The place where it is located is perfect, as you can see a view of the Sea of Cortez, you can observe and be close
May 151 min read


Entrada Santa Rosalia
The letters of Santa Rosalía are a great welcome that this Magical Town gives to our great home. Upon arriving, you can notice the locomotive of the company "Compagne Du Bleo" with a phrase that says "Give of yourself before thinking of yourself." Something else that welcomes you is the park, which has an arch that represents Santa Rosalía and that it is proudly a Magical Town.
May 151 min read


Plaza Fundicion
The Fundición square was formerly the famous "La Revo," which was a kind of nightclub inside part of what used to be Fundición. La Revo was in poor condition, so they decided to demolish it and create a square. In this square, there are various businesses, such as El Marea, El Ram San, La Gaztelo, Veterinaria San Fernando, Los Sicodélicos, El Mexicano, Baja Grill, Saldos, Jalisquillo Carnitas y Chicharrones, Gym Somos Fuertes, Tacos El Oaxaqueño, among others.
May 151 min read


Museo El Boleo
Museo El Boleo is a tourist place where you can find impressive and ancient things about Santa Rosalía and the mining "Compagne Du Boleo." Here you can find old photos of what Santa Rosalía used to be like, you can find the work tools that the French used to extract copper, and you can find the history of characters who contributed to the history of Santa Rosalía, such as "Porfirio Diaz." Each image and element has a brief text explaining what it is and the history it had.
May 141 min read
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