translated from Spanish: For its culture it was named The Athens of Sinaloa

Mocorito, Sinaloa.- Mocorito is recognized by the hallmark of La Atenas de Sinaloa for the 1900s, which was when literature, culture and art had a very special flourishing. José José Norzagaray Parra, Director of Tourism of Mocorito, narrated that in those dates of 1900 important writers lived there, such as Enrique González Martínez, José Sabás de la Mora, Sixto Osuna, among others, who gave a great boom to the theme of culture and who they had a lot of relationships throughout the Republic.

He also commented that in the Magic Village, the printing of the newspaper Voz del Norte was established in December 1906; also published in 1907 the magazine Arte, one of the most important publications in Mexican literature during porphyriato and its director was Enrique González Martínez and who was named for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.” In Mocorito in those 1900s these well-known writers did a lot of work, they made many cultural looks at the state and national level look at Mocorito,” he said. He emphasized that at that time in the Magic Village there was much question that the social classes stood out in front of another. He also said there were a lot of wealthy people and a lot of economic boom, as well as a lot of development.
It tells the story that you looked at a lot of people with carriages and elegantly dressed, people of money,” Norzagaray Parra said.

He emphasized that in that municipality lived educated, elegant and good family people, and all this on a par with the knowledge of culture and art, was that Mocorito earned the different from La Atenas de Sinaloa.Pondero that there were people who were fascinated with the themes of culture and c on reading issues, so interest in these topics flourished. Finally he assured that it is one of the municipalities with the most history of Sinaloa and recognized in many places of the world. Without a doubt Mocorito is a destination very visited by people who are curious to know its historic buildings.



Original source in Spanish

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