Real de Catorce Calle Lanzagorta

This is the main street in the small town of Real de Catorce.  Although the street was lined with venders of all types we could smile and say no and all was fine. We were there in a quiet time of the week so we quickly recognized the same people out on the street.  There are only 900 hotel rooms in town.  Our hotel, Meson a la Abundancia, had only 12 rooms, an excellent resturant, and very helpful staff.  The building used to be the Treasury when the town was a very rich silver mining area from 1780 until early 1900's.  The walls were three foot thick stone.  Inside was a courtyard joining the three story building with wooden steps and a cafe on the middle level.  The room keys were antique iron keys that we had to leave at the desk whenever we went out.