20 minutes from the center of Amealco are the ruins of the Old Temple of San Ildefonso Tultepec, a stone construction dating back to the eighteenth century.
It is currently a point of visit for tourists who want to visit the settlements in the area.
Every weekend, visitors who arrive in the municipality of Amealco take it as one of their obligatory stops, due to the photographic spots offered by the place, its mystical atmosphere and its proximity to places such as the Picos de Yospi.
The enclosure was the headquarters of the parishioners of San Ildefonso in seasons where pilgrimages celebrate Holy Week and the patron saint festivities, their visit makes a binomial with the traditional dance of the shepherdesses, since it has become part of a route for tourists who visit the region.
The old temple of San Ildefonso Tultepec is located on the deviation that goes to Tenasdá, surrounded by a beautiful view of crops, in a landscape that can be seen from the top to the arrival of the construction.
It is a framework that exists in the bucolic, as if taken from a story by Rulfo, where nature, existentialism, the rural and the past come together, its essence is breathed in the air after being a temple linked to a flood that left it buried.
Today these ruins are admired, preserved from the rural Otomi area that inhabits the place, where respect for the past, the land and belief form bonds between the population.
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