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Café Museo Café
This combined cafe and coffee museum is a venture of Coopcafé, a grouping of more than 17,000 small-scale, mainly indigenous, Chiapas coffee growers. The museum covers the history of coffee and its cultivation in Chiapas, from highly exploitative beginnings to the community-based i
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Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana
Housed in an imposing neoclassical brick building (the former Escuela Alvaro Obregón, built in 1929) the Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana presents lectures, art exhibitions, film festivals and concerts. The center is located about 1.6km (1 mile) west of Av Revolución. Take any blue-an
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Museo Amparo
This superb private museum, housed in two linked 16th- and 17th-century colonial buildings, is loaded with pre-Hispanic artifacts. Displayed with explanatory information sheets in English and Spanish, the collection is staggering. Notice the thematic continuity in Mexican design –
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Museo de las Artes
To scratch your modernist itch if you’ve overdosed on arte clásico , head three blocks west of Parque Revolución to this museum housed in a French renaissance building that formerly served as the admin buildings for the University of Guadalajara. The highlight is the Paraninfo (aud
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Galería Alejandro Santiago
This contemporary gallery is dedicated to artist Alejandro Santiago (1965–2013), creator of the most celebrated work of recent Oaxacan art – his installation 2501 Migrantes , comprising 2501 different human figures sculpted in clay, representing all the people who had migrated for
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Isla del Tiburón
Mountainous Isla del Tiburón, Mexicos largest island, was once a Seri homeland, but it was depopulated when the island was declared a nature reserve in 1963. Today its administered by the Seri tribal authorities. An intact desert ecosystem, Tiburón is home to bighorn sheep and larg
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Museo José Alfredo Jiménez
If you dont know of José Alfredo Jiménez before you come to Dolores, you will by the time you leave. (Hint: hes the king of música ranchera and beloved by all Mexicans). Housed in a stunning space – the home where he was born – this new, modern museum cleverly depicts his life thro
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El Tabasqueño
Supposedly named after a local landowner from Tabasco, El Tabasqueño boasts a temple-palace (Estructura 1) with a striking monster-mouth doorway, flanked by stacks of eight Chac masks with hooked snouts. Estructura 2 is a solid free-standing tower, an oddity in Maya architecture. T
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Bahía Conejos
Three kilometers east of Tangolunda, Bahía Conejos’ long main beach is divided by a small rocky outcrop into the western Playa Arenas and the eastern Playa Punta Arenas , both reachable by short walks from the paved road. The surf can be strong here. At the east end of the bay is t
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Laguna Santa María del Oro
Surrounded by forested mountains, this idyllic lake fills a volcanic crater 2km around and is over 100m deep. The clear, clean water takes on colors ranging from turquoise to slate. It’s a pleasure to walk around the lake and in the surrounding mountains, spotting birds (some 250 s
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Museo del Estado
This free museum of Michoacano history is a slightly dusty and haphazard affair, but packs in plenty of information from prehistoric times to first contact with the conquistadors. Pre-Hispanic arrowheads, ceramic figures, bone jewelry and a shimmering quartz skull can be found down
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Misol
Just 20km south of Palenque, spectacular Misol-Ha cascades approximately 35m into a wonderful wide pool surrounded by lush tropical vegetation. It’s a sublime place for a dip when the fall is not excessively pumped up by wet-season rains. A path behind the main fall leads into a ca
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Acueducto & Mirador
Walk east along Independencia past Convento de la Santa Cruz, then fork right along Ejército Republicano, to the mirador . Theres a fine view of Los Arcos, Querétaros emblematic 1.28km-long aqueduct , with 74 towering sandstone arches built between 1726 and 1738. The aqueduct runs
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Museo Toma de Zacatecas
The Museo de la Toma de Zacatecas , at the top of La Bufa, was reopened in 2014, to commemorate the centenary of the 1914 battle that was fought on the hill’s slopes in which the revolutionary División del Norte, led by Pancho Villa and Felipe Ángeles, defeated President Victoriano
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Monumento a Los Niños Héroes
The six marble columns marking the parks eastern entrance commemorate the ‘boy heroes,’ six young cadets who perished in battle. On September 13, 1847, 8000 US troops stormed Castillo de Chapultepec, which then housed the national military academy. Mexican General Santa Anna retrea
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Playa del Palmar
Ixtapas longest (2.5km) and broadest stretch of blond sand, thats overrun by parasailing and jet-skiing concessions. The sea takes on an aquamarine sheen in the dry season, which makes it all the more inviting. Take care while swimming, as there can be a vicious shore break and a p
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Iglesia de San Antonio de Padua
Because of the number of Maya ruins in the vicinity, from which to steal building blocks, and the number of Maya in the area needing conversion to Christianity, Franciscan friars built many churches in the region, including this 16th-century church. Although looted on several occas
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Universidad de Guadalajara
Three blocks west of Parque Revolución is the Paraninfo , one of the main buildings of the Universidad de Guadalajara. Inside, the stage backdrop and dome feature large, powerful murals by Orozco. In the back of the same building is the excellent Museo de las Artes , which houses w
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Museo de la Independencia Nacional
Although this museum has few relics, it has plenty of information on the independence movement. The exhibition spans seven rooms and charts the appalling decline in Nueva Españas indigenous population between 1519 (an estimated 25 million) and 1605 (1 million), and identifies 23 in
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Museo de la Ciudad Teodoro Cano
Legendary Paplanta artist Teodoro Cano (b 1932) was once a student of Mexican art giant Diego Rivera. This small museum displays a handful of Canos fine paintings, an alluring combination of both dark and ebullient scenes that are drawn almost exclusively from Totonac culture. The
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