When a journey not too many places I dare to recommend wholeheartedly, most of them are suitable for individuals and edges offer irresistible to others. Oaxaca is an exception. Can not imagine anyone halfway intelligent, fulfilling the conditions of normality required, for example, to obtain a driver's license, which is not necessarily caught by the magic of this colonial Mexican city. If you can, do not hesitate. Go to Oaxaca without delay. In Oaxaca, the crossing and blending of cultures draws the lines of its streets and everything evokes a nostalgia that is current in everyday life. In Oaxaca understood the magic realism of Garcia Marquez. This impostor was never anything Imagine writer. Its validity is capable of telling us the journalist's daily life that holds universes like Oaxaca. Do not know what attracts me more than this Mexican region, if the traces of the Mixtecs and Zapotecs, remains alive and present of the Spanish conquistadors or irresistible colorful markets, its handicrafts and paintings. The Spanish Dominican friars planted the Mexican state of convents. In the sixteenth century up over fifty, most of them still standing, giving use to the faith of many Christians. Probably wanted converts to guarantee the control of a privileged universe. Oaxaca is one of the richest states in Mexico in popular art. Demonstrations of traditional crafts and inventiveness are vast and spread across the geography of the state. There is hardly an area of ??extensive logging of raw materials (fabric, wood, clay, iron, precious metals, etc.) not a unique manifestation in Oaxaca, supported by the artistry and imagination of its creators and respect to media and traditional techniques distinguishes Oaxacan crafts and has earned an international reputation. One of the most striking examples of the imagination coupled with traditional craftsmanship found in textiles. Fabrics and wool have worked for centuries, with the help of backstrap looms, spinning wheels, bayonets and natural dyes from cochineal famous generated red to purple snail magic milked to obtain that color. The work is evident in the wealth of indigenous costumes, amazing blouses, skirts and shawls of the Coast and Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where there are influences of trade with the East, in the Sierra huipiles or in serapes the Central Valley. Oaxaca, on the other hand, is one of the few producers of cotton Coyuchi whose natural colors ranging from brown to red. The cocoon of this variety of cotton is so small that it is impossible to work it industrially.