The 21st annual Festival of the Monarch Butterfly is from November 23 to December 2. Opening ceremonies are Friday, Nov. 23 in the Temple of the Immaculate Conception in Angangueo.
Patzcuaro is the ex-capital of Michoacan and before that was Tzintzuntzan, a small town nearby dating to the Purhépecha empire in the 1300's. The museum in Patzcuaro is finding ruins in it's back yard that predates history and they are believed to be earlier than the history of Tzintzuntzan. The Purhépecha were one of the indigenous tribes that were not conquered by the Aztecs