Our campus: Spending days gathering bragging rights.

What will you do here in Mexico, you ask?  In San Miguel, the center of the artistic universe?   As you add the legacy of the Instituto Allende to your bio?

San Miguel de Allende, the Florence of North America, with arguably the best climate in the world, is a world heritage site, preserved much as it was 450 years ago.  The Instituto Allende,  founded in the mid 1900's and the artistic heart of SMA, has it's home in an equally venerable hacienda, with thick rock walls and charming courtyards.  

But what will you do here?

You will, of course, get in touch with your inner artist.

And perhaps your inner Mexican ... (and outer Mexican tutor) ... as you learn Spanish.  

Or you can laze about, sipping something, contemplating how days can be so ... well ... eternal spring ... even in winter!

You can wander past cool ancient rock walls leading from court yard to class room to garden. 

You might like spending time in an intimate library of important works, some of them quite rare or even unique, while you sit on hand carved chairs that once graced the office of the governor of Guanajuato. 

And you can leave the cloistered, peaceful Instituto via vaulted arches to explore the pueblo. 

A pueblo kept as it was hundreds of years ago ... yet surprisingly cosmopolitan. 

And yes!  We have running water, electric lights, taxis, guests from all over the world ... and English is frequently, if often quaintly, spoken. 

This is what you will do ... as you gather bragging rights about your love affair with San Miguel de Allende and it's legacy, the Instituto Allende.