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Teatro Degollado
Construction on the noble neoclassical Teatro Degollado, home of the Guadalajara Philharmonic, was begun in 1856 and completed 30 years later. Over the Grecian columns on its front is a frieze depicting Apollo and the Nine Muses. The five-tiered interior is swathed in red velvet an
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Museo del Noreste
Technically this is a separate institution to the Museo de Historia Mexicana, but practically speaking its galleries on the culture and history of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Texas, packed with video screens and artifacts, function as a new wing of the history museum with
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Parroquia de San José
In the learned San José quarter, this church dates from 1770 and confirms Xalapa’s penchant for asymmetrical one-towered religious edifices. Architecturally, it displays an unusual blend of baroque and Mudejar styles, including some horseshoe arches. Directly behind is the Mercado
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Playa Revolcadero
Beyond the Puerto Marqués turnoff and before the airport, Playa Revolcadero is a long, straight beach that has seen a recent explosion in luxury tourism and residential development. Waves are large and surfing is popular here, especially in summer, but a strong undertow makes swimm
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Centro Mexicano de la Tortuga
The much-visited Mexican Turtle Center, at the east end of Mazunte, is an aquarium and research center containing specimens of all the worlds eight marine turtle species (seven of which frequent Mexicos coasts), plus some freshwater and land varieties. They’re on view in fairly lar
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Tamtoc
The important Huastec ceremonial center of Tamtoc flourished from AD 700 to 1500. Today it’s one of the few maintained Huastec sites. The cleared part of the expansive site is a plaza with platforms made of river stones. Look for a low bench with two conical altars decorated with f
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Museo Mulegé
The former territorial prison was famed for allowing prisoners to roam free in town during the day. Now the Museo Mulegé, its eclectic collection ranges from fairly mundane prison artifacts to a section of a rocket that plummeted from the sky in the year 2000! Note the blackened ce
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Museo del Origen
This small but enchanting museum on the plaza offers info in Spanish on the history of museums, a small archaeological collection, pictures of ruins and petroglyphs. Theres also a reproduction of a fascinating long scroll (the Códice Boturini ), telling the story of the Aztec peopl
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Museo de la Ciudad
The Museo de la Ciudad is housed in the old post office and offers a great reprieve from the hustle, honks and exhaust of this market neighborhood. There are exhibits tracing the city’s history back to pre-Conquest days up through the belle epoque period, when henequén (sisal) brou
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Alta Vista Petroglyphs
Its a drive along a rough road, then a 1.5km walk up a riverbed to this site, but get good directions first, as its not signposted. The site is well-stocked with petroglyphs, some geometrical, some depicting human figures. A path leads you past many carvings, with Spanish-English s
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Plaza de los Mariachis
Just south of Avenida Javier Mina, this is the birthplace of mariachi music. By day it’s just a narrow walking street, flanked by charming old buildings and dotted with a few plastic tables and chairs and the odd uniformed mariachi musician chatting on a cell phone. At night it can
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Playa Las Islitas
The best beaches are southeast of town around Bahía de Matanchén, starting with Playa Las Islitas, 7km from San Blas. To get here, take the main road toward Tepic and turn off to the right after about 4km. This paved road goes east past the village of Matanchén, where a dirt road g
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Museo de Arte de Zapopan
One block east of the southeast corner of Plaza de las Américas in Zapopan, MAZ is dedicated to modern art. Four sleek minimalist galleries hold temporary exhibits, which have included works by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo as well as leading contemporary Mexican artists. Many of th
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Zona Arqueológica El Rey
In the Zona Arqueológica El Rey, on the west side of Blvd Kukulcán, there’s a small temple and several ceremonial platforms. The site gets its name from a sculpture excavated here of a noble, possibly a rey (king), wearing an elaborate headdress. El Rey, which flourished from AD 12
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Universidad de Guanajuato
The main building of this university, whose ramparts are visible above much of the city, is one block up the hill from the basilica. The distinctive multistory white-and-blue building with the crenelated pediment dates from the 1950s. The design was (and, some might say, continues
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Museo Histórico de San Miguel de Allende
Near the Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel is the house where Ignacio Allende was born. These days it is home to the Museo Histórico de San Miguel de Allende, which relates the interesting history of the San Miguel area. One of the floors is a reproduction of Allendes home. A Latin
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Chilam Balam Auditorio
The Chilam Balam Auditorio, next to the museum, sometimes has video shows about Chichén and other Mexican sites. The picture quality can be truly abominable, but the air-con is great. In the central space of the visitors center stands a scale model of the archaeological site, and o
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Capilla de las Capuchinas Sacramentarias
There’s a sublime simplicity about this chapel, located inside a convent for Capuchin nuns. Designed by modernist architect Luis Barragán in 1952, the austere altar, free of the usual iconography, consists only of a trio of gold panels. In the morning, light streams through a stain
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Mundo Cuervo
Right across from Tequilas main plaza, Mundo Cuervo, which is owned by the José Cuervo distillery, the worlds oldest distillery, is a veritable tequila theme park and the biggest game in town. Hourly tours include tastings and a free margarita in a plastic cup. The hour-long tour i
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Street Market
On Thursday and Sunday, Tonalá bursts into a huge street market that sprouts on Avenida Tonaltecas and crawls through dozens of streets and alleys and takes hours to explore. With torta (sandwich), taco and michelada (beer and tomato juice) stands aplenty, the whole area takes on a
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