TOUR

MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND CITY TOUR

 

     

         

 

Depart to the down town center, visit the House of Tiles, Banamex Cultural Centre (Palacio de Iturbide), The Central Post Office and arrive at the Plaza of the Constitution. Visit the National Palace, where we see the wall of one of the best that Mexico has had muralist Diego Rivera. We continue to the Temple, to visit the outside and the catedral Continue to the Museum of Anthropology, through the Paseo de la Reforma Avenue to admire this inspired the Champs Elysees in Paris, passing by the Zona Rosa, El Angel de la Independencia, etc. Arrival at the Museum and visit. The Aztecs, Maya, Teotihuacan, Olmecs, civilizations. Considered the largest and most important of the museum where you can see pieces as the Aztec calendar, the Coatlicue, a replica of Moctezuma's headdress etc Olmeca Hall, the cradle of our civilization that built the first and largest monoliths of Central America, as the colossal heads. lunch not included. End of service

 

BASILICA DE GUADALUPE

AND PIRAMIDS OF

TEOTIHUACAN  

     

         

   

Departure to the Basilica of Guadalupe, the most important Catholic shrine of America, where every year millions of pilgrims arrive. Continue to Teotihuacan.

"Place of the Gods" could not have known otherwise a place whose greatness did not ignore the people who, after the fall of the city, transformed conferring divine dignity.

Arrival archaeological zone World Heritage Site by UNESCO, will begin around the citadel and its temple of Quetzalcoatl, who was in his time one of the most important temples of the period, where the god worshiped "Feathered Serpent." Continue on the road of the dead that walk on it hints at a mystery.

Arrive to the museum site to visit and walk over to the model that shows how impressive it was this city, same as there were about 130.000 inhabitants.

We will continue walking until you reach the Palace of the Jaguar, the Temple of the Feathered Shells, Quetzalpapalotl Temple, The Pyramid of the Moon, the Pyramid of the Sun.

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TOUR

CUERNAVACA

AND TAXCO

 

     

         

   

Depart for Cuernavaca City to visit the cathedral built in the S. XVI immediately after the conquest. Walk to the downtown where the Palacio de Cortes is located. We continue to Taxco. We'll get to Taxco and walk up the center of this beautiful colonial city, known as the "World´s Silver Capital." After lunch walk through its narrow streets admiring the architecture of pink stone and tile roofs. Visit the Parish of Santa Prisca, considered one of Mexico's colonial gems, built in the Eighteenth century by the richest man then, José de la Borda, who thank God for the wealth he had accumulated from the silver mines, he ordered the construction of this parish. Taxco is still the city per excellence de la Plata, so will visit a silver shop to see the development of it. Free time for shopping, and by late afternoon return to Mexico City. End of service