Mexico’s Little Cornwall
Known for its excellent pasties, the mountain town of Real del Monte is “a curious piece of Cornwall lost in Mexico”, says Richard Collett in The Daily Telegraph. Thousands of Cornish immigrants came here and to the neighbouring city of Pachuca from the 1820s onwards, to revive the region’s silver mines. Today, Union flags adorn the windows of shops, the remains of typical Cornish wheelhouses and mining chimneys “dot the skyline”, and in Pachuca there is a 130ft monumental clock with a mechanism based on Big Ben’s, and a football museum – the oldest team in Mexico, C.F. Pachuca, was founded in 1901 by Cornish miners. Most ubiquitous, however, are the pasties, served all over town, and often spiced up with local ingredients such as coriander, chilli,…