This town is called Dolores Hidalgo because of the famous initiator of the Independence of Mexico, Don Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla, a priest who in the year of 1803 arrived to Dolores and take an important religious position. Its work with the people was extensive, installing a carpentry, a pottery and a loom, and teaching people the office of the crafts and agriculture. For this lot of people followed him.

 

Some inhabitants of the New Spain, as the Mexican population was called after the Spanish domination, began to meet and plan the form to become independent of Spain, but one of the assistants to these meetings informed to the government what was happening.

Doña Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez, could alert to the rest of the group that they had been discovered, reason why the dawn of the 16 of September of 1810, the Cura Hidalgo sound the bells of the Parish of Dolores, the people met in the vestibule of the Parish and the priest summoned to fight for freedom and the independence of the New Spain, shouting “Viva Mexico”, “Viva the Virgin of Guadalupe”, now knowed as the "Grito de Dolores". This phrases are now repeated each year by the President of the Republic to commemorate this important historical fact.

 

The city of Dolores Hidalgo celebrates each 16 of September the Independence of México. The night of the 15 of September occurs the “Grito de Independencia” in the Parish of Dolores as the bells sound, as well as the priest Hidalgo did, remembering the heroes of Independence and the historical fact that today allows us to be a free country. The national flag is waved and everybody awards honors to it. Some Presidents of the Republic have attended this commemoration being them the ones who give the shout. 

 

Later it continues the celebration with fires pyrotechnicses that fill the sky of colors mainly with green, white and red,  the colors of the mexican flag. In the principal Plaza begins the music, bands and mariachis that cheer the night with Mexican music. The Mexican antojitos are the food of the night, everybody asists to this celebration that is the most important in all Mexico. Tacos, tamales, enchiladas and other Mexican antojitos are accompanied by a good tequila or pulque, the mexican drinks. The celebration does not finish until the following day, for the Mexicans it is all a tradition that anywhere over the world a mexican could be, follows this so important celebration of the country. Groups of mexicans outside Mexico, join themselves with other compatriots to celebrate its race and its roots, the pride of being Mexican. And at the sound of marichi and tequila they are united to all the Mexicans in the greatest celebration of this beautiful country.