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Aguascalientes Municipality
{{Infobox settlement
|name =Aguascalientes
|official_name = ''Ciudad de Aguascalientes''<br />City of Aguascalientes
|settlement_type =[[City]]
|native_name = 
|nickname = {{Lang-es|Ciudad de la gente buena}}<br/><small>({{Lang-en|City of the good people}})</small>
|motto = {{lang-la|Virtus in Aquis, Fidelitas in Pectoribus}}<br/><small>({{Lang-en|Virtue in the Water, Fidelity in the Heart}})</small>
|image_skyline = AGUASCALIENTES CITY.jpg
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===Fiber optic infrastructure===
Aguascalientes has the same fiber-optic and voice/data communication infrastructure as
[[Mexico City]], [[Guadalajara]], and [[Monterrey]].<ref name="aguascalientes.gob.mx"/>

==Culture and recreation==

[[File:Palace Wiki Ags.jpg|thumb|left|Government Palace: a forest of columns, carved arches and imperial stairs]]Aguascalientes houses the largest festival held in Mexico, the [[San Marcos Fair]], which takes place from the middle of April to the beginning of May. The celebration was held originally in the San Marcos church, neighborhood, and its magnificent neoclassical garden; since then, it has greatly expanded to cover a huge area of exposition spaces, bullrings, nightclubs, theaters, performance stages, theme parks, hotels, convention centers, and other attractions. It attracts almost 7 million visitors to Aguasc(contracted; show full); the [[Guadalupe Posada Museum]] ''(Museo Guadalupe Posada)'', located in the historic nationhood of Triana, exhibits the life and work of [[José Guadalupe Posada]]; and the State History Museum, which is housed in an elegant [[Art Nouveau]] mansion typical of the Porfirian period with and ornate patio and dining room with vegetable motifs in a Mediterranean style, with a French Academism façade, and interior columns and an arcade of pink stone characteristic of Porfirian Eclecticism.

[[File:Camarin Ags Wikipedia.jpg|thumb|right|Camarin of San Diego: Interior detail]]Other designs by Refugio Reyes include the Paris Hotel, the Francia Hotel, and his masterpiece, the Church of San Antonio. The Church of our Lady of Guadalupe possesses an extraordinarily exuberant Baroque facade designed by [[José de Alcibar|José de Alcíbar]], a renowned architect of the period considered to be one of the most famous artists in Mexico in the 1770s.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} The Camarin of the Immaculate in the church of San Diego is considered by historians to be the last Baroque (contracted; show full)
{{wikivoyage|Aguascalientes}}
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081014004141/http://www.muniags.gob.mx/ Municipal website]
*[http://www.aguascalientesmexico.info Fotos, Mensajes, y Mas de Aguascalientes]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130406130712/http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/ Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005] INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática

[[Category:Cities in Mexico]]