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    Arched courtyard of the former Hacienda de Solís, now a technical high school, Estado de México

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    Exhacienda de Solís

    Village Temascalcingo, Estado de México Municipality of Temascalcingo Northern Estado de México

    Former grain hacienda in Temascalcingo, the municipality's largest, where López Rayón set up during Independence; the main house is now a school campus.

    From San Juan del Río: 1 h 15 min by car (66 km by road) How to get there ↓

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    How to get to Exhacienda de Solís

    • From San Juan del Río: about 1 h 15 min by road (~66 km)
    • Nearest airport: Toluca (TLC), 1 h 27 min by car to El Oro
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    About Exhacienda de Solís

    Solís was Temascalcingo's biggest hacienda by land and output. Its boom came in the 18th century, when the Tlalpujahua and El Oro mines and Mexico City wanted ever more grain, and the Enciclopedia de los Municipios says it ran the area's economy and social life from 1540 to 1940. Today it is a locality of 2,051 people (2020) at about 2,377 m in the wide Solís valley; in 1900 it had 2,605 and in 1921 only 452, a fall that coincides with the Revolution and the agrarian revolt that destroyed the hacienda.

    It also played a part in the War of Independence: after Hidalgo's death, Ignacio López Rayón took the hacienda as his operations centre and ran it until farm output flourished; from here he visited the Ñado fort and the Huichapan region. The Enciclopedia adds that the insurgent cause in the area had determined women, among them Leona Vicario at Tlalpujahua and at Solís.

    Of the main house there remain an entrance garden, courtyards with arches and the chapel of San Miguel Arcángel; a blogger who visited calls it restored. Since November 1991 the compound has housed a technical high school (the CBT Lic. Adolfo López Mateos), so it is not a museum and no visiting hours are published: ask at the gate.

    How to get to Exhacienda de Solís

    Drive from San Juan del Río: 1 h 15 min, 66 km

    Solís is about 9 km (straight line) north-west of Temascalcingo, the municipal seat, which is 20 km from Atlacomulco and about 100 km from Toluca on paved roads. From Mexico City it is approx. 2 hours by car toward Atlacomulco and Temascalcingo; from Toluca approx. 1.5 hours; signs point to the community of Solís. Without a car: there is no direct bus from Toluca to Temascalcingo; go to Atlacomulco (Autovías La Línea, Flecha Roja and Primera Plus, 50 minutes to 1 h 15) and take a taxi or local transport on to Temascalcingo and Solís. Confirm schedules with the bus lines before you travel.

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    Since 1991 the compound has been a technical high school (CBT); no visiting hours are published, so ask permission at the gate. Cabezas de Águila (blog) y Wikipedia · checked Oct 2026

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    Visiting Exhacienda de Solís: what to see and do

    Look at the hacienda compound: the entrance garden, the arched courtyards and the main house, now a school campus.
    Find the chapel of San Miguel Arcángel at the back of the grounds.
    Drive through the Solís valley, grain-growing land that fed the El Oro and Tlalpujahua mines.
    Ask in the village about what survives of the hacienda and about Rayón and Leona Vicario at Solís.
    Continue to Temascalcingo, about 9 km away, birthplace of the painter José María Velasco.

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    Exhacienda de Solís shares the climate of El Oro, 21 km away. The best months to visit are January, February, March, and April.

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