It was the first place in the State of Aguascalientes that resembled a city, even before its own capital. Real de Asientos was founded in 1548. For this reason, walking the road that leads to the mountain in which it is nestled is a way of traveling back in time. Asientos has the rhythm of an ancestral heartbeat. Its original name was "Real de los Asientos de Ibarra", in honor of Diego de Ibarra. Asientos was erected as a villa in 1713, was quickly populated and soon became an important stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.