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Plaza Miguel Hidalgo
The wide and attractive Plaza Miguel Hidalgo is surrounded by portales (arcades), overlooked by the 19th-century neoclassical La Parroquia de Santa María de la Asunción with its pink facade and decorated tower.
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Novia del Mar
Just beyond the Centro de Convenciones Campeche, the girl gazing out to sea is the Novia del Mar. According to a poignant local legend, the campechana fell in love with a foreign pirate and awaits his return.
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Museo de los Cuatro Pueblos
The Museo de los Cuatro Pueblos displays contemporary popular arts of Nayarit’s Huichol, Cora, Nahua and Tepehuano peoples, including clothing, yarn art, weaving, musical instruments, ceramics and beadwork.
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Museo de Bellas Artes
The ex-convent buildings adjacent to the Templo del Carmen, on the north side of Plaza Garibay, house Toluca’s Museo de Bellas Artes, which exhibits paintings from the colonial period to the early 20th century.
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Café Gourmet Pepe
This is an almost-organic, shade-grown coffee plantation that offers tours and sells delicious coffee and liquors. Get off at the first bus stop in Xico and walk back 150m to where you’ll see signs on the right.
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Alameda
The Alameda Juan Sarabia marks the eastern boundary of the downtown area. It used to be the vegetable garden of the monastery attached to the Templo del Carmen. Today its a large, attractive park with shady paths.
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Monumento a la Revolución Observation Deck
The star attraction of the monument is the 65m-high observation deck, accessed by a glass elevator. The vertigo-inducing lift opens to a spiraling staircase that ascends to a wide terrace with a panoramic view of the city.
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Playa Lancheros
About 5km south of town and the southernmost point served by local buses, this beach is less attractive than Playa Norte, but it sometimes has free music festivities at night. A taxi ride from town costs about M$75.
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Cocodrilario de Chacahua
The Cocodrilario de Chacahua houses over 200 crocodiles, releasing some of them into the lagoons occasionally as part of a successful program to save the local wild croc population from extinction at the hands of poachers.
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Cuarto Contemporáneo
Innovative space where you might catch installations, performances or experimental-media art by young Oaxacan artists. The gallery also involves poor communities around Oaxacas periphery through a roving art bus.
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Los Cazos
About 2km south of town is the leafy park Los Cazos, with the 30m waterfall El Salto . You can picnic or hire a horse (M$250) and live out your John Wayne fantasies. A taxi here costs M$50 or its an easy and pleasant walk.
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce
Modern-art fans might find something interesting at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce named for the Michoacano artist and muralist. The 19th-century building hosts temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.
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Pinacoteca Diego Rivera
Tucked beneath the west side of the plaza, this small gallery houses a modest collection of Rivera’s works, as well as pieces from other Mexican artists. Theres excellent coffee to be had at the Jarochostyle Café outside.
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Los Arcos
Public events such as gaucho parades and mariachi festivals bloom on the sea side of the plaza near an outdoor amphitheater backed by Los Arcos, a row of Romanesque-looking arches that has become a symbol of the city.
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Templo XVII
Between the Cruces group and the Acrópolis Sur, this temple contains a reproduction carved panel depicting Kan B’alam, standing with a spear, with a bound captive kneeling before him (the original is in the site museum).
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Templo de la Tercera Orden & Templo del Sagrado Corazón
The small Templo de la Tercera Orden, built in 1694 and restored in 1960, and Templo del Sagrado Corazón (1728−31), both formerly part of the Franciscan monastery, stand together at the south end of Jardín de San Francisco.
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Museo Nacional de San Carlos
Exhibits a formidable collection of European art from the 14th century to early 20th century, including works by Rubens and Goya. The unusual rotunda structure was designed by Manuel Tolsá in the late 18th century.
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Monumento a Álvaro Obregón
This monument in La Bombilla park in San Ángel is the work of Mexican sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo and dates from 1935 to commemorate the murder of President Álvaro Obregón in 1928 in a restaurant of the same name as the park.
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Pirámides Los Alzati
About 16km north of Zitácuaro lie the peaceful Matlazinca ruins, Pirámides Los Alzati . Veterans of other archaeological sites won’t be too impressed by the pyramids, but the views are great and it’s a nice picnic spot.
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Playa Santa María
Playa Santa María at Km 13 is one of the nicest beaches in Los Cabos. It is a good place for snorkeling with plenty of wildlife to gaze at underwater. Even if youre not into snorkeling, theres plenty to see above water.
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