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Guide to Colonial Cities in Mexico
Complete guide to Mexico's colonial towns and cities. Beautifully preserved--many are also important world heritage centers--Mexico's colonial cities offer inspiring travel experiences
Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes is in the heart of Mexico's central region. The city's principal attraction is its popular and famous annual Fair—Feria de San Marcos—attracts over 3 million visitors every year...
Alamos
Alamos is a picturesque colonial city offering visitors a glance into a world long past, with its narrow cobbled streets and Spanish and Moorish mansions and haciendas...
Campeche
Campeche situated in the shores of the Gulf coast and with its narrow streets, pastel-colored houses and old colonial feel is one of Mexico's best kept secrets...
Chihuahua
Chihuahua is a truly Mexican and deeply patriotic city, which adds remarkably to the sense of history here. A historical tour of Mexico’s colonial heritage without Chihuahua, would be incomplete...
Cholula
Cholula is host to Mexico's largest pyramid—Pyramide Tepanapa. This important historical town is also directly overlooked by the famous Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl volcanoes...
Comitan de Dominguez
Comitan is on the southern border between Mexico and Guatemala. It offers its visitors a number of attractive sights including the picturesque San Caralampio neighborhood...
Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca is a charming colonial city located just south of Mexico City known for its art, restaurants, Spanish language schools and year-round temperate climate...
Guanajuato
Guanajuato is the crown jewel of Mexico's colonial cities. The town has been named as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and is one of the most beautiful cities in Mexico...
Merida
Merida is the capital city of the Yucatan. It's a perfect base for exploring the Yucatan and is also a fascinating destination, being one of Mexico's most hospitable and nostalgic colonial cities...
Morelia
Morelia is a beautiful colonial city with an aristocratic feel, that is filled with elegant and well preserved Spanish colonial architecture, including pink stone and baroque styles...
Oaxaca
Oaxaca is a city that retains a Spanish colonial feel, but which also reflects its indigenous heritage. They blend together wonderfully which is all part of this city’s natural charm...
Patzcuaro
Patzcuaro is a beautiful and ancient highland mountain town, set an important lake, charming, and authentic with a blend of colonial and indigenous roots....
Puebla
Puebla is an important historic city, with dome shaped roofs and buildings revealing Moor influences that arrived centuries ago and which have remained in this beautiful colonial city ever since...
Queretaro
Queretaro is an atmospheric colonial city steeped in Mexican history. It was here where the fathers of Mexico's Independence movement met in secret to discuss the overthrow of the Spanish...
San Cristobal de las Casas
San Cristobal is the revered destination of travelers visiting Chiapas. Its colonial streets and alleyways lined with red-roofed and white-washed houses beg wanderers to explore and discover its charms...
San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel was declared a national monument in 1926, and is a picturesque city of arched colonial mansions, flower-filled patios, winding cobblestone streets, and sun-drenched plazas and courtyards...
San Luis Potosi
San Luis Potosi is an elegant colonial city that has been well preserved. It's also one of the country's most important cities, owing that so much of Mexico's formative history revolves around it...
Taxco
Taxco is characterized by its steep narrow roads and alleyways, breaking out into small and pleasant plazas. Unlike many of the other colonial cities in Mexico, no modern suburbs exist around its outskirts...
Tlaquepaque
Tlaquepaque is four miles southeast of Guadalajara and was once a small village in its own right. Today, it's a fashionabl earea with its historical center that offers a character and style of its own...
Tuxtla Gutierrez
Tuxtla Gutierrez is the capital city of the State of Chiapas. It is the main gateway to the state for visitors, as it offers excellent road and air connections to and from the rest of Mexico...
Veracruz
Veracruz is a colorful, lively and easy-going colonial port city. Today its fame stems from its music, dancing and carnival, although Veracruz has also played an important part in Mexico's history...
Villahermosa
Villahermosa is the capital city of the State of Tabasco, a rich, fertile region of Mexico, and once the center of the Olmec Civilization. Its most famous attraction is one of Mexico's most important museums...
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