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Museo Regional de Guadalajara
Guadalajaras most comprehensive museum tells the story of the city and the surrounding region from prehistory to the revolution. The ground floor houses a natural history collection whose unwitting star is a mightily impressive woolly mammoth skeleton. Other crowd-pleasers include
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Museo Regional
This museum is beside the Templo de San Francisco. The ground floor holds interesting exhibits on pre-Hispanic Mexico, archaeological sites, Spanish occupation and the states various indigenous groups. The upstairs exhibits reveal Querétaros role in the independence movement and po
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Museo Nacional del Virreinato
There’s a very simple reason to visit this wonderful museum comprising the restored Jesuit Iglesia de San Francisco Javier and an adjacent monastery . Much of the folk art and fine art on display – silver chalices, pictures created from inlaid wood, porcelain, furniture and religio
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Anahuacalli
Designed by Diego Rivera to house his collection of pre-Hispanic art, this museum is a templelike structure of volcanic stone. The ‘House of Anáhuac’ (Aztec name for the Valle de México) also contains one of Rivera’s studios and some of his work, including a study for Man at the Cr
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San Juan de Ulúa
The citys colonial fortress has been almost swallowed up by the modern port, and you have to squint to pick it out amid the container ships and cranes across the harbor. The central part of the fortress was a prison, and a notoriously inhumane one, during the Porfirio Díaz regime.
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Palacio de Quetzalpapálotl
Off the Plaza de la Luna’s southwest corner is the Palace of the Quetzal Butterfly, thought to be the home of a high priest. The remains of bears, armadillos and other exotic animals were discovered here, showing that the area was used by the elite for cooking and rituals – not the
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Plaza Santo Domingo
Smaller and less hectic than nearby Zócalo, this plaza has long served as a base for scribes and printers. Descendants of those who did the paperwork for merchants using the customs building (now the Education Ministry) across the square, the scribes work on the west side beneath t
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Hormiguero
Though not easy to reach, Hormiguero has two impressive and unique buildings that are worth the trek. Buildings date as far back as AD 50; the city (whose name is Spanish for ‘anthill’) flourished during the late Classic period. As you enter you’ll see the 50m-long Estructura II .
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Templo de Santa Prisca
The icon of Taxco, Santa Prisca is one of Mexico’s most beautiful and striking pieces of baroque architecture. Its standout feature (best viewed side-on) is the contrast between its belfries, with their elaborate Churrigueresque facade, and the far more simple, constrained and eleg
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Isla de la Piedra
Escape artists love Isla de la Piedra, located southeast of Old Mazatlán, for its beautiful, long sandy beach bordered by coconut groves. Anyone with an appetite sings the praises of the simple palapa (thatched-roof shelter) restaurants. Surfers come for the waves, and on Sunday af
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Grupo de las Mil Columnas
This group east of El Castillo pyramid takes its name – which means ‘Group of the Thousand Columns’ – from the forest of pillars stretching south and east. The star attraction here is the Templo de los Guerreros (Temple of the Warriors), adorned with stucco and stone-carved animal
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Chiapa de Corzo Archaeological Site
On a trade route between the Pacific and the Gulf, the sprawling Chiapa de Corzo settlement had close ties to neighboring Maya and Olmec cultures. At its peak, it counted about 200 structures, but was abandoned around 500 AD. After years of excavation, three Zoque pyramid structure
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Cacaxtla & Xochitécatl
These sister sites , about 20km southwest of Tlaxcala and 32km northwest of Puebla, are among Mexico’s most intriguing. For its many high-quality, vividly painted depictions of daily life, Cacaxtla (ca-cashtla) is one of Mexico’s most impressive ancient ruins. Rather than being rel
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Agua Azul
Agua Azul is a breathtaking sight, with its powerful and dazzling white waterfalls thundering into turquoise (outside rainy season) pools surrounded by verdant jungle. On holidays and weekends the place is packed; at other times you’ll have few companions. The temptation to swim is
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Oratorio de San Felipe Neri
Located near the east end of Insurgentes, this multi-towered and domed church dates from the 18th century. The pale-pink main facade is baroque with an indigenous influence. A passage to the right of this facade leads to the east wall, where a doorway holds the image of Nuestra Señ
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El Palacio
Diagonally opposite the Templo de las Inscripciones is El Palacio, a large structure divided into four main courtyards, with a maze of corridors and rooms. Built and modified piecemeal over 400 years from the 5th century on, it was probably the residence of Palenque’s rulers. Its t
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Pirámide del Sol
The world’s third-largest pyramid, surpassed in size only by Egypt’s Cheops and the pyramid of Cholula, overshadows the east side of the Calzada de los Muertos. When Teotihuacán was at its height, the pyramid’s plaster was painted bright red, which must have been a radiant sight at
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Grutas de Xtacumbilxunaan
Some of the most significant caves in the peninsula are found 31km north of Hopelchén, shortly before you reach the town of Bolonchén de Rejón. The local Maya have long known of the existence of the Grutas de Xtacumbilxunaan, a series of underground cenotes in this water-scarce reg
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Suprema Corte de Justicia
In 1940 muralist José Clemente Orozco painted four panels around the second level of the Supreme Courts central stairway, two dealing with the theme of justice. A more contemporary take on the same subject, La historia de la justicia en México (The History of Justice in Mexico), by
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Villa Rica
Standing in this tiny dusty fishing village 69km north of modern-day Veracruz, it’s hard to believe you’re gazing at the site of the first European-founded settlement north of Panama in mainland America. These days the historic settlement hardly merits a label on most maps, though
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