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Museo Regional Huasteco Joaquín Meade
Showcases over 10,000 archaeological and ethnological pieces from the region, from around 600 BC until the Spanish conquest.
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Museo Universitario Dr Luis Mario Schneider
The Museo Universitario Dr Luis Mario Schneider explores the region’s history and archaeology in a beautiful modern museum space.
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Crafts Market
Near the pier is a small crafts market that spills over a network of lawns running parallel to the malecón (waterfront walk) .
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Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo
With a taste for provocative social commentary, this contemporary gallery displays quality work by international photographers.
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Nuestra Señora de la Soledad Cathedral
The Nuestra Señora de la Soledad Cathedral built in 1930 dominates the square and is unusual for its blue-domed, neo-Byzantine architecture.
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Iglesia de Santa Catarina
The main church in the Lagunilla neighborhood, dating from the 16th century. Celebrations to its patron saint occur here every November 25.
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Los Pinos Presidential Residence
The official residence of Mexican presidents is a white mansion built in 1853 and known simply as Los Pinos. Guided tours by reservation.
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Museo de las Culturas Populares
Exhibits craftwork from Durango state’s indigenous Tepehuanes and Huicholes and other artisans, including some hauntingly beautiful masks.
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Parroquia de San Pedro
This distinctively yellow baroque church has the tallest tower in Cholula. It was built in 1640 and the dome was reconstructed in 1782.
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Playa de Quimixto
This beach, just beyond Las Ánimas, has a waterfall accessible by a half-hour hike or by hiring a pony on the beach to take you up.
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Playa Santiago
On the far side of the Península de Santiago from town, this is one of Manzanillos cleaner beaches and has some good accommodations nearby.
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Playa Las Brisas
Just across the harbor from the old town, this spacious stretch of sand is backed by an appealingly quiet zone of hotels and restaurants.
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Parque Nacional Bahía de Loreto
Pay the M$50 per person entrance fee to the park in the marina. Staff can advise on water activities, and the pelican colony is amazing.
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La Diana
This statue and roundabout marks the center of Acapulcos strip, and many hotels, restaurants and discotecas are within a few blocks of it.
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Torre del Caballero
Known locally as ‘El Mirador,’ this lookout tower , on a footbridge over the Río Grijalva, affords good panoramas over the city and river.
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Monumento a Cuauhtémoc
Reforma’s busy intersection with Avenida Insurgentes is marked by the Monumento a Cuauhtémoc, memorializing the last Aztec emperor.
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Postal Museum
Philatelists can ogle a design of Mexicos first stamp and other relics in the 1st-floor postal museum at Mexico Citys main post office.
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Playa Azul
This long, curving strip of sand can suffer from oil streaking. It stretches northwest from Playa Las Brisas to the Península de Santiago.
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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Register your vehicle and pay the entry to the Sierra de San Francisco at this institute next to the Misión San Ignacio in San Ignacio.
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Fuente de Neptuno
A block west of Jardín Zenea is the Fuente de Neptuno, designed by noted Mexican neoclassical architect Eduardo Tresguerras in 1797.
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