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Site Museum
The modern site museum has interesting archaeology exhibits and an excellent video (with English subtitles). It’s worth heading here first to contextualize the area and view the museum’s miniature site model to get your bearings for your wanderings.
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Templo XIII
This temple contains the tomb of a female dignitary, whose remains were found colored red (as a result of treatment with cinnabar) when unearthed in 1994. You can look into the Tumba de la Reina Roja (Tomb of the Red Queen) and see her sarcophagus.
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Casa del Cerro
The restored Casa del Cerro is a freakish little oasis of early-20th-century wealth and beauty in this industrial city. Built in 1901–05 by engineer Federico Wulff for his family, the mansion is gorgeous, and so are the original furnishings that fill it.
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Iglesia de Santiago Apóstol
On the main plaza is the sensational 16th-century Iglesia de Santiago Apóstol. Candles and incense burn, fresh flowers crowd the altar and the detailed doorway was carved by a Moorish stonemason who accompanied the early Spanish missionaries here.
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Galería de Arte Contemporáneo
The town’s contemporary art gallery is in a renovated colonial building 1km east of the center. Showing an interesting range of temporary exhibitions and some ceramics, there’s also a small movie theater that screens art house films, mostly for free.
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Ex Teresa Arte Actual
Mexico City was built atop a sloshy lake bed and its sinking fast, as evidenced by this teetering former convent. The 17-century building now serves as a museum for performance art, contemporary exhibits, concerts and the occasional movie screening.
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Capilla de Guadalupe
Follow Zaragoza-Libertad north of Real de Catorce to the Capilla de Guadalupe and panteón (cemetery). Before you go, ask for the key at the tourist office (in case its closed). Further along this road youll hit the remains of the former bullring, Plaza de Toros .
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Museo Agustín Lara
A monument to one of Veracruz most famous musical icons, this museum displays a range of Agustín Lara’s personal belongings, furniture and memorabilia in the musician’s old city residence. It is situated just off Blvd Camacho, 4km south of the city center.
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Museo de Historia
The Museo de Historia traces northern Baja history from the indigenous inhabitants to the mission period. On the buildings basement level, the Galería de la Cuidad features Baja California artists.
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Museo Comunitario
Two kilometers down the road from the ruins toward Santa María Atzompa, the Community Museum exhibits some very fine pieces of pottery found at the ruins, including detailed effigies of nobility or deities and huge pots used for storing water, grain or seeds.
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Museo el Boleo
Built in 1885 by the French to house the offices of the Boleo Company, this mining museum watches over town and the copperworks from its perch on the hill near the Hotel Francés. Its surrounded by cool abandoned locomotives and other pieces of machinery.
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El Caballito
A couple of blocks west of the Alameda Central is El Caballito, a bright-yellow representation of a horses head by the sculptor Sebastián. It commemorates another equestrian sculpture that stood here for 127 years and today fronts the Museo Nacional de Arte.
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Isla Río Cuale
A trip to Vallarta wouldnt be complete without lingering on Isla Río Cuale, a sand island that appeared in the rivermouth in the 1920s and was then consolidated. Its very pleasant for a traffic-free stroll among the trees and to visit the Museo del Cuale.
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Museo Regional de las Culturas de Occidente
Some original carbon illustrations and lithographs of José Clemente Orozco – the famous Mexican muralist born in Guzmán – are displayed at the small Museo Regional de las Culturas de Occidente. Its also a good place to brush up on your history of western Jalisco.
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Templo de San Felipe Neri
The 18th-century baroque Templo de San Felipe Neri is where Benito Juárez and Mtiargarita Maza were married in 1843; Margarita was the daughter of Antonio Maza, an Italian immigrant merchant who took in the young Benito when he arrived in Oaxaca as a boy.
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Centro Cultural Olimpo
Attempts to create a modern exterior for Méridas municipal cultural center were halted by government order to preserve the colonial character of the plaza. The ultramodern interior serves as a venue for music and dance performances, as well as other exhibitions.
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La Bocana
About 1.5km east of Playa Conejos, the road runs close to the coast again at La Bocana, at the mouth of the Río Copalita, where you’ll find a decent right-hand surf break and a couple of restaurants. Another long beach stretches east from the river mouth.
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Museo de Arte Sacro de Guadalajara
A recent addition to the citys museums, this pious collection is bivouacked quite appropriately inside the cathedral (the entrance is on the eastern side). Its filled with dark and brooding 17- to 18th-century religious art and priceless church treasures.
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Museo Rufino Tamayo
This top-class collection of pre-Hispanic art was donated to Oaxaca by its most famous artist, Rufino Tamayo (1899−1991). In a fine 17th-century building, the exhibits trace artistic developments in preconquest times and include some truly beautiful pieces.
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Museo Regional de Chiapas
The Museo Regional de Chiapas, an imposing modern building, has a sampling of lesser archaeological pieces from Chiapas’ many sites, and a slightly more interesting history section, running from the Spanish conquest to the revolution, all in Spanish only.
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