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Instituto Coahuilense de Cultura
Saltillo’s main cultural center, the beautiful Instituto Coahuilense de Cultura often features good temporary exhibits by artists from Coahuila and beyond. It also hosts occasional concerts and has a bookstore and café.
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Festival of Santiago de Querétaro
A cultural extravaganza held during Semana Santa (Easter; dates change), when both Mexican and international artists perform and exhibit a massive variety of work – from music and dance to painting and literature.
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Catedral del Basílica Menor
Durangos Plaza de Armas is dominated by the handsome baroque facade of this cathedral, constructed between 1695 and 1787. The cathedral’s vast, Byzantine interior has fine sculptures, organs and ceiling paintings.
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Vinícola L.A. Cetto
Still operated by descendants of Italian immigrants who arrived in Baja in 1926, this winery offers tours and tasting. L.A. Cetto produces a range of tasty varietals, as well as sparkling wines and a decent brandy.
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Plaza de Santa Veracruz
The sunken square north of the Alameda across Avenida Hidalgo is named for the slanting structure on the right, the Iglesia de la Santa Veracruz . Elaborately carved pillars flank the doorway of the 18th-century church.
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Plaza 400 Años
This plaza, graced with fountains and pools, forms an impressive approach to the sleek, modernist Museo de Historia Mexicana and the Museo del Noreste. It is the terminus of the lovely Paseo Santa Lucía promenade.
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Playa Marlin
A long, lovely stretch of sand with lifeguards on duty and deck chairs, umbrellas and tables for rent. There’s no food, but there is an Oxxo out on Blvd Kukulcán, north of the Kukulcán Plaza where the beach access is.
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Centro de Convivencia Infantil
Parque Madero contains a children’s park, the Centro de Convivencia Infantil , with a minitrain, carnival games, pony rides and other diversions for the (approximately) under-sevens. A lot of rides don’t open weekdays.
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Centro para la Investigación y el Desarrollo de la Guitarra
Among the intricately decorated guitars displayed at this museum – including classical, Flamenco, Hawaiian and steel-string varieties − is one with ample breasts and a woman’s mouth for the sound hole. Very Freudian.
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Museo Salvador Ferrando
The Ferrando, named for a Tlacotalpan artist, is the best of Tlacotalpans handful of mini-museums. It displays assorted artifacts, furniture, paintings and other nicknacks within a charming old colonial mansion.
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Museo del Archivo General de Estado
Learn how Campeche came to be at this small museum. It’s free and air-conditioned, and you get to check out old documents and maps, and watch a video (in Spanish or English) that recounts the history of the state.
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Lidxi Guendabiaani
Beside the San Vicente Ferrer church one block south and one west of Jardín Juárez, Lidxi Guendabiaani is set around a big patio. Its used mainly for arts classes but also has a gallery and a small archaeological museum.
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Playa de los Muertos
Despite its name, Playa de los Muertos (Beach of the Dead) is a lively beach which is handy to the city center. At the southern end of the beach, a stretch of sand called Blue Chairs is a popular spot with gay men.
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Sculpture of Pedro Sáinz de Baranda
A block past the Hotel del Mar is a monumental sculpture of Pedro Sáinz de Baranda, a native son who played a key role in defeating the Spanish at their last stronghold in Veracruz, thus ending the War of Independence.
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Playa Los Muertos
One popular destination near central Sayulita is Playa Los Muertos, where picnics and body-boarding top the action. It’s a 15-minute walk south along the coast road, through the Villa Amor resort and the cemetery.
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Palacio Municipal
Tapachulas squat town hall sits at the northern end of the plaza.
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Museo Othóniano
Behind the cathedral, this museum is the birthplace of much-celebrated Mexican poet, Manuel José Othón (1858–1906). The 19th-century home is furnished in period style and exhibits Othóns manuscripts and personal effects.
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Museo del Objeto del Objeto
Packing a collection of nearly 100,000 pieces, some as old as the Mexican War of Independence (1810), this two-story design museum tells unique versions of Mexican history by compiling objects for thematic exhibits.
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Centro de las Artes
Three disemboweled redbrick factories compose the Centro de las Artes , filled with rotating modern-art exhibitions. Centro de las Artes I is known as Cineteca, because it also shows independent and foreign films.
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Palenque de Gallos
A block northwest of Plaza Hidalgo, lies a monument to the towns heyday – the Palenque de Gallos, a cockfighting ring, built like a Roman amphitheater. It was restored in the 1970s and sometimes hosts theater or dance performances.
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