Durango Gov. Jorge Herrera Caldera and Durango City Mayor Esteban Villegas Villarreal announced on Monday that they would launch a new program: “Legends of Durango.”
According to a state government press release, this program aims to highlight the attractions of Durango City to bring in tourists, taking advantage of the state’s improved connectivity with the rest of the country following the inauguration of the Durango-Mazatlán Superhighway.
Herrera Caldera and Villegas Villarreal agreed that the time has come for Durango to grow, as they say that the new superhighway — part of the larger Northern Mexico Interoceanic Corridor that will connect Matamoros with Mazatlán — will provide more opportunities for industrial development, tourism and job creation.
Villegas Villarreal said that the Legends of Durango program will reenact local legends for visitors to the city’s Mining Tunnel museum, which highlights the state’s history, folklore and mining industry. This program, he went on to say, will show off the legacy of Durango’s culture to the new visitors arriving on the Durango-Mazatlán Superhighway.
These legends, he added, will be taken from the books of the renowned Durango folklorist Manuel Lozoya Cigarroa, who is known for the books “La Monja de Luna” (“The Nun on the Moon”), “El Alacrán de la Cárcel” (“The Prison Scorpion”) and “El Toro de los Cuernos de Oro” (“The Bull with the Golden Horns”), among others.
Herrera Caldera called on Durango residents to take pride in the state’s cultural icons and praised the late Lozoya Cigarroa’s efforts in preserving local traditions.
Manuel Lozoya Amaro, Lozoya Cigarroa’s son, thanked Herrera Caldera and Villegas Villarreal for their efforts in keeping his father’s work alive.
Rodrigo García Ibarra, director of the state government’s Fairs, Spectacles and Tours office, thanked Durango residents for doing their part to preserve local traditions and legends.
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