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Visiting a city in Mexico – Puebla City

The City of Puebla is the 4th largest city in Mexico and also one of the oldest cities in the country. Likely for all the tourist, it has preserved its colonial architecture. It is situated in a valley flanked by volcanoes, only 80 miles from Mexico City. Mostly it is visited as a day trip [...]

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Visiting other cities in Mexico? Visit Guadalajara

The second largest city in Mexico is Guadalajara. Among the local people and some well-informed tourists it is also known as “the Pearl of the West”. It owns its popularity to the Mariachi music since this is the place where it has been born. It is located in the center of Mexico, in the state [...]

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Los Cabos – Baja California

Los Cabos is situated on the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. It has been gaining popularity as a tourist destination over the past 30 years. This area includes the towns of San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, and the area between them which is commonly referred to as the “Tourist Corridor” [...]

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Basilica de Guadalupe

Basilica de Guadalupe is the most visited religious site in Mexico City. It is at the hill where the virgin of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego. She is the patroness of Mexico and a very important national symbol. The Basilica of Guadalupe is one of the most visited churches in the world and it is [...]

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Frida Kahlo Museum

At the corner of Allende in the Colonia Del Carmen Coyoacan area of Mexico City  is a Museum Frida Kahlo. It is actually the Casa Azul or Blue House in Coyoacan. It was the family home of the famous artist and wife of painter Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo. This world wide known artist grew up [...]

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Xochimilco

If you ever come to Mexico City, the visit to the Xochimilco would definitely be a highlight of your trip.  Half a century ago this was an agricultural hub, a metropolis of 235,000 inhabitants and today it consists of canals and gardens, which is all that is left of the lake on which Mexico City [...]

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Mexico – National Anthropology Museum

If you are interested in the Mesoamerican artifacts you should definitely pay a visit to the National Anthropology museum, which is located in the Chapultepec Park. Here you would be able to examine the most impressive collection of Mesoamerican artifacts in the world. To each cultural region a hall is dedicated and some rooms have [...]

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Palacio de Bellas Artes aka Fine Arts Palace

Palacio de Bellas Artes is another impressive building that was planned to commemorate the centenary of Mexico’s independence from Spain. But due to the Revolution that broke out in 1910, this magnificent theater was not finished till 1934. Many of the Diego Rivera’s murals are displayed here, as well as José Clemente Orozco’s, David Alfaro [...]

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The Great Temple aka Templo Mayor

Not far from the National Palace, the main temple of the Aztecs is situated known as Templo Mayor. In the previous century, electric company workers came across a large round stone depicting the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauqui and that is how the excavation of the great temple began. All the items found on the site; [...]

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Palacio Nacional aka National Palace

On the East side of the Zocalo there is the government building that houses the federal treasure and national archives. This site has been a palace for the ruling class of Mexico since the Aztec empire, and much of the current palace’s building materials is from the original one that belonged to Moctezuma II and [...]

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