Plaza Mijares

The central square of San José del Cabo, flanked by the Parroquia San José church and the town hall (presidencia municipal), and shaded by large laurel trees. The plaza is calm on weekday mornings — children playing, retirees on benches — and comes alive in the evenings when the restaurants around it fill and the Thursday Art Walk begins.

The church on the north side of the plaza is the fourth to stand on the original 1730 mission site; the current Baroque Revival facade dates to 1940. A large mosaic mural on the interior wall depicts the Jesuit establishment of the mission and the relationship between the missionaries and the Pericú people who inhabited the area (and largely died out as a result of the encounter). Worth a look inside on any morning when Mass is not in progress.

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A story
Plaza Mijares is the social heart of San José del Cabo — the old mission plaza around which the town was founded in 1730. On Thursday evenings it transforms into the starting point of the Art Walk, when the galleries along Calle Álvaro Obregón throw open their doors and the streets fill with visitors, locals, and gallery owners. The tradition began in the 1990s and has become the defining event of San José's cultural calendar.