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13/02/2022

Puebla is the capital and the largest city of the Puebla State.

Automobile Museum – MAP

The world of automobiles is of primary interest to you?

Visit one of the most outstanding museums of Puebla, where you will find cars that left their mark in history, cars that represent society’s tastes in road vehicles in different periods of the 20th century, and also cars exemplifying the transitions of the automobile’s evolution.

At the Automobile Museum in Puebla (MAP), which was founded in 1996, you will encounter models such as the 1912 Model T Ford, 1941 Cadillac Old Limousine, and other old vehicles.

This museum which was set up by a local classic car club is now extended. It does not include a new space, which has 3 permanent rooms in which various iconic cars of the Volkswagen and Audi brands are exhibited, which are an important part of the history of the Automotive Industry in Puebla.

The Automobile Museum houses a historical collection of vintage cars, mainly of the Audi brand. The exhibitions allow learning about the evolution, development, and social significance of the automobile since its appearance in the world at the beginning of the 20th century.

The museum is open Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00.
40 MXN general admission
Free entry on Sunday

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Puebla is a busy city with a lot of people who need to get around. so it is necessary to have a mass and conventional collective public transport system to meet the needs of the city, made up of various transport systems. People get around in many different ways including the bus, car, and walking. Most tourists mainly get around using the Metrobus and Uber. The Metrobus is what the bus system in Puebla is called. The buses in Puebla are a popular way for people to get around, which means they are usually packed. Some bus rides can be a bit uncomfortable because of how packed they are. Metrobús (ROUTE) The Trunk corridor uses 22 buses (6 articulated buses and 16 conventional buses) and a prepaid system. Line 2: It was inaugurated on April 10, 2015 and operates with 16 feeder routes. It has a connection with Line 1 at the stations Diagonal Oriente (L2) / El Rayito (L1) and Diagonal Poniente (L2) / Constitución de 1917-11 Norte (L1). Line 2 of the RUTA system runs along avenue 11 north-south from Diagonal Defensores de la República to Margarita’s terminal with an extension to “Calle Limones” or 157 Poniente, covering a distance of 13.8 km. Line 2, like line 1, works through a card charging system, thus avoiding assaults on the drivers of the units. The arrival of line 2 of the RUTA streamlines the vehicular flow on the north-south 11th street. Line 3: It was inaugurated on November 13, 2018, and operates with 35 feeder routes. It has a connection with the Line and runs along the Valsequillo Boulevard from the Periférico Ecológico and Héroes del 5 de Mayo to CAPU, covering a distance of 15.3 km. Line 3 works through a card charging system approved with lines 1 and 2. Cableway The Puebla cable car is a tourist attraction located in the Los Fuertes area that connects the Exhibitor Center with the monument to Zaragoza. It has an extension of 688 meters. Puebla-Cholula Tourist Train The Puebla-Cholula tourist train is a one-way light rail that connects the center of Puebla with the center of Cholula. It is 17 kilometers long and travels at about 35 km/h on average. Although it was originally conceived as an exclusively tourist project, the state government announced that it will have a cheaper rate for Pueblans who frequently use it as a means of transportation. It was inaugurated on January 23, 2017. Ground transportation Public transport buses: they are in charge of transporting the largest number of people every day, thanks to the variety of routes that exist in the city. 80% of the city is communicated through this service. Taxis cover a wide sector, the city has more than 20,000 units. Public bicycles As of 2017, the Mexican company Cycloshare began to operate an extensive network of public bicycles in the city of Puebla, covering from the historic center of the city to Ciudad Universitaria, it is expected that this network of cycle stations will be the largest in Latin America.
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Pre-Columbian era Some historians consider that the area where Puebla City is located nowadays was not inhabited in the Pre-Columbian era, except in the 15th century, when this valley was set aside for use for the so-called Flower Wars among the populations of Itzocan, Tepeaca, Huejotzingo, Texmelucan, and Tlaxcala, with those soldiers captured being used as sacrifice victims. The foundation of Puebla begins with a letter from the bishop of Tlaxcala in 1530, Julián Garcés, to the Spanish queen outlining the need for a Spanish settlement between Mexico City and the port of Veracruz. Colonial-era The city was founded in 1531 in the Valley of Cuetlaxcoapan as a Spanish city, not on the foundation of an existing indigenous city-state. The official date of the foundation is 16 April 1531, however, this first attempt at settlement failed due to constant flooding of the site right next to the river. Several rivers flow through the Valley of Puebla, the San Francisco, Atoyac, and the Alseseca. This valley was bordered by the indigenous city-states turned colonial towns of Cholula, Tlaxcala, Huejotzingo, and Tepeaca, all of which had large indigenous populations. After the city’s foundation, this valley became the main route between Mexico City and Veracruz, the port on the Caribbean coast and the connection to Spain. Puebla was an important city and region in the history of New Spain, since it was in the center region of Spanish settlement, midway between the main port and the capital, had a large indigenous population, and drew many Spanish settlers. It supplied the capital with commercially grown agricultural products and became a center of local textile production. It was well connected to Mexico’s North, particularly the silver-mining region around Zacatecas. Most of the population moved away from the west bank of the San Francisco River to a higher site. A few families remained behind and renamed the original settlement Alto de San Francisco. The Spanish Crown supported the founding of Puebla as a city without encomiendas, as this system was being abused and a number of Spaniards were finding themselves landless. Puebla received its coat-of-arms in 1538. In 1558 the city received the title “Noble y Leal” (“Noble and Loyal”). In 1561 Puebla received the updated title of the “Muy Noble y Leal Ciudad” (“Very Noble and Loyal City”). And in 1576 the city received another title “Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad” (“Very Noble and Very Loyal City”). The layout of the city is of classic Spanish design, centered on the main plaza, today called the Zócalo. This main plaza originally was rectangular, but later made square because the earlier version was considered to be ugly. Another major feature of the city was the weekly markets (tianguis), in which indigenous sellers would come with their wares and foodstuffs to sell to the population. By the mid-16th century, water was brought into the main plaza to a newly installed fountain. By the end of the century, the city occupied 120 blocks, much of which was under construction, with the new Cathedral begun in 1575. Its favorable climate and strategic location helped Puebla to prosper, quickly becoming the second most important city in New Spain. The city council of Puebla was made up of only Spaniards, had a certain amount of autonomy in the politics of the city and the land under its jurisdiction. This council annexed the towns of Amozoc, Totimehuacán, and Cuautinchán to its territory in 1755. By 1786, Puebla’s lands reached from what is now Veracruz to Guerrero states. The city continued to grow and be more regulated during the 17th and 18th centuries. A new city hall was built in 1714 and the tianguis in the main plaza was replaced by wood stalls by the 1770s. The streets were paved with stone between 1786 and 1811. Commercial activity was dislodged from the main plaza completely by the early 19th century and placed in the San Francisco Parian market. Other plazas, such as the San Luis, San Antonio, El Carmen, La Concordia and Santa Inés were built. The main plaza underwent several transformations, adding statues and gardens. During the Mexican War of Independence, Puebla’s main role was the printing and distribution of the plan for independence. In 1827, after Independence, all Spaniards were expelled from the city’s lands. Early Republican era In 1847, the city was taken by U.S. forces under General Winfield Scott, without a shot fired. The American garrison was besieged in the city from 14 September – 12 October 1847 by the irregular forces of General Joaquín Rea and later reinforced by Antonio López de Santa Anna. The siege was broken by the force of General Joseph Lane that fought its way from Veracruz into the city after defeating Santa Ana in the Battle of Huamantla on 9 October 1847. Puebla was then the base for General Lane’s campaign against General Rea and the other guerrillas that harassed the U. S. Army line of communications. These forces left in July 1848 after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was ratified. During the French intervention in Mexico on 5 May 1862 in the Battle of Puebla, defending Mexican forces under Ignacio Zaragoza defeated the French army under Count de Lorencez. The city’s name was changed to Puebla de Zaragoza in 1862, by a decree issued by Benito Juárez, and the holiday “5 de Mayo” (“Cinco de Mayo”) is a major annual event here. The city was attacked again by the French in 1863, who succeeded in taking it. French forces left in 1866 and reconstruction began in 1867. During the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, Puebla remained important culturally and economically. It had a thriving textile industry at this time. Immigration from Europe was encouraged and people from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and Lebanon came to live in the city. In what became a precursor to the Mexican Revolution, siblings Carmen, Máximo y Aquiles Serdán was behind one of the first conspiracies against the Porfirio Diaz government. >>Read more
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In 1862, the French army, considered the most bloodthirsty and ambitious of that time, was defeated on May 5 in Puebla by a small Mexican militia. This date was preserved in memory as a symbol of the Mexicans’ resistance to foreign invasion. But what happened and how did the Mexican army manage to stop the invaders? For 154 years, no one imagined that the answer was under the feet of the inhabitants of Puebla City, only at a depth of five meters. We’re talking about a system of tunnels that all have heard of, but which have been recently discovered and saved so that anyone can visit them. These tunnels may have been used by the Mexicans to be able to enter and exit through different points of Puebla City and thus ambush the French invaders. But in this whole story, there are still unfinished ends that need to be tied up, for example: why there are no official documents that talk about these tunnels? Was this really the best-kept secret of the government of President Benito Juarez? Sergio Vergara Berdejo, head of the Puebla Historic Center Authority, notes that the tunnels use construction methods from the 18th and 19th centuries, a century before the conflict between France and Mexico. This makes us think that the Mexican army of that time was one of the few who knew about the existence of these tunnels and even perhaps that they were the ones who expanded them, but then, who built them and why? Many Mexican cities have legends about secret tunnels lying just beneath the streets, used during the revolution either by royalty or even during the inquisition. Grandparents would tell these folk stories to children. The discovery of the Puebla tunnel in 2015 lends some credence to these urban legends. In the alley of Cinco de Mayo Road, there’s a doorway leading underground that looks to be an entrance to a subway. This is a tiny entrance discovered in 2015 – a secret tunnel system used to connect a fort area with the city of Puebla. After the discovery of the first door to the tunnels, due to uneven work, exploration of the underground network began along with the removal of earth and dirt, and the discovery of bullets and wooden crossbows along the way, which reinforces the hypothesis that the space was used for strategic and military purposes. A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla City. The tunnel system is believed to extend for more than 10 kilometers. The entrances to four tunnels have been discovered during routine work in 2015 in the Historic Center of Puebla. Lined with stone, the tunnels reach a height of seven meters and a width of three and a half. The underground tunnel system dates back to 1531, they have resisted the passage of time, the weight of an ever-growing city, and a severe flood in the 1600s. That flood buried a good part of the then-young city — Puebla was founded in 1531 — because it proved easier for its denizens to build over the tonnes of mud than to dig out their original buildings. So parts of the city and its mythical tunnels were lost and forgotten. At first, it was thought that what had been uncovered was a sewage system, but after further excavations, it was found out these tunnels provided colonial officials and religious authorities with covert means of moving between convents, churches, and administrative offices. Tunnels, tall enough that a person could comfortably ride through on horseback, originate in the historic center of Puebla and lets out to the Loreto fort, where the Cinco de Mayo battle occurred. Along with toys, marbles, and antique kitchen goods, a lot of guns, bullets, and gunpowder were found trapped in the mud. The weaponry was mostly from the mid-19th century, around the time of the Battle of Puebla conflict between Mexico and France. Investigators believe these tunnels may have been used by soldiers during the war of Mexican liberation, though they also could have been used by clergy or even common folk. In addition to rumors among the population of Puebla about the existence of tunnels under the city, a 1929 publication described what people called the “Devil’s Cave” behind the building that occupied the vocational school, which seemed to be the beginning of a hole in which thieves left stolen large objects. After the tunnels have been rescued and illuminated, those who wish can visit them. Tunnels were opened to the public in 2016. The tour across the tunnel includes a guided visit by archaeologists who worked on the project and displays where one can see the items that lay in the mud for so long. Boulevard Héroes del 5 de Mayo (without number) and corner 3 Oriente, Analco. Calle 2 Nte, Xanenetla. Tunnels are open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00-16:00 and cost 25 MXN.
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Cuexcomate Geyser is a unique natural wonder located in the city of Puebla, Mexico. The Cuexcomate crater is an empty cone of an extinct geyser. The sinter cone of this inactive geyser, built around its opening, is 13 meters high and 23 meters in diameter. The central crater inside the cone is up to 8 meters wide and 17 meters deep (4 meters below ground level). The geyser attracts tourists interested in geology and natural attractions. Cuexcomate is mistakenly called the smallest volcano in the world. But despite its diminutive size, Cuexcomate has significant geological and cultural significance in the region. Visitors can climb a spiral staircase built inside the crater to reach an observation deck at the top, which offers panoramic views of the surrounding landscape and the city of Puebla. The place is also surrounded by lush vegetation, which adds to its picturesque charm. Although Cuexcomate is not an active geyser in the traditional sense, its unique geological origin and accessible location make it an attractive stop for travelers exploring the volcanic history and natural beauty of the region. The site is part of a wider volcanic landscape that largely defines the geography and cultural heritage of central Mexico. The formation of Cuexcomate is associated with volcanic activity that characterizes the area around Puebla. It is classified as a maar, a type of volcanic crater formed by a phreatomagmatic eruption caused by the interaction of magma with groundwater. Over time, the eruption created a small, shallow crater that has remained dormant ever since. The last eruption of the geyser was in 1562, although it only spewed gases and boiling water, its structure is more similar to that of a volcano. Inwardly, it continues to be connected to Popocatepetl, which is why it could launch water again. The word Cuexcomate comes from the Nahuatl language and means “place to keep” or “warehouse”. In prehispanic times, the Cuexcomate Geyser was used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies. It was said that in ancient times, the people of Puebla threw the bodies of suicide victims into the crater because they did not deserve to be mourned or buried. The people living around the geyser were called ‘children of the devil’ or ‘under the devil’s rule’. During the New Spain period, it was the place of reception for sinners, inside it the suicides were thrown since they were not worthy of the requiem for their souls nor did they take place in the holy field. A description of Cuexcomate from the year 1585 says: “..at one league from this city, there is in a large grassland… in a circular shape, a rock of 6 or 7 estados high, at the top of which there is a great mouth as if it were made to hold a waterwheel. The which is very deep, and at the bottom of which there is foul-smelling water. There they say that in the heathen days, they threw in natives to be sacrificed to their idols” Later it was transformed into a garbage dump, people threw their waste inside and it was about to be covered. Currently, it is possible to enter through the crater, where there are spiral-shaped stairs that allow one to descend to the interior of the crater, into the excavated interior of the structure, where cultural events are occasionally performed. Visitors can descend to the interior of the Cuexcomete crater from 10:00 to 18:00. At the bottom, there is sulfurous water that rises from the caves, which has not been studied. Legends say one of the underground Puebla City’s tunnels runs from the hill of Loreto to the hill of San Juan (now the hill of La Paz) and from there to the Cuexcomate Geyser, then crosses under the Atoyac River and continues to the Pyramide of Cholula. Cuexcomate formed in what would later become the town of La Libertad and in 1943 it became part of the city of Puebla. On November 27, 1970, a plaque was placed around the sides of the Cuexcomate Geyser to commemorate the founding of La Libertad. The geyser is located in the square of the same name.
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