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02/01/2022

Nature & Wildlife

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

Concordia Park

The Lake of Concordia is located in the Zone of the Forts. This is one of the most visited sites in Puebla. The lake is artificial.

Lake of Concordia is a must-see in Puebla. This place is a great option to relax and connect with nature by practicing different ecotourism activities within the city. Persons who love nature, but don’t have little time to go out of the city, come here since the atmosphere invites them to disconnect from everything.

The Lake of Concordia is an ideal place to visit on the weekend, in a natural environment in the middle of the urban area as well as enjoying the different events that are presented here.

Lake Concordia is an artificial lake located in the heart of Puebla, where you can clear your mind and enjoy nature. You can sail and take a ride on pedal boats on the lake while enjoying the wind and sun or feed and watch the ducks.

The Lake of Concord is located within the Los Fuertes Park, in the Plaza de la Concordia, which was built to celebrate the bicentennial of the Battle of Puebla. Here you can also enjoy a great Mexican party, which is celebrated on May 5 to commemorate the Battle of Puebla.

It is an ideal place to visit on the weekend and if you travel as a family, the place is great for a very fun family day in a natural environment and doing ecotourism in the middle of the city, as well as enjoying the different activities and events. Here is possibly one of the best places for a panoramic view of the city of Puebla.

The fun is not only during the day since at night the Lake of Concordia comes to life with night shows of light and sound with special effects that will tell the story of the most emblematic monuments and Magical Towns of Puebla on a huge screen of water.

The great show Nights of Legend takes place here in certain seasons.
The show takes place from Thursday to Sunday from 20:45 to 21:30.
Free entrance.

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Conveniently located between Mexico City and Veracruz, Puebla can be reached by bus from Mexico City. Puebla revers its history as the first city built by Spaniards Spaniards in 1531. Its fifty-block historic center has been a UNESCO World Heritage site for the past twenty-five years, a testament to the plethora of colonial buildings, many tiled, all colorful, lining the streets. Cathedral of Puebla Meandering through the streets of the historic center offers visitors an excellent means of seeing the city. Though it seems as if there is a colonial church on every block, you will want to visit the Cathedral of Puebla, impossible to miss with its twin towers (tallest in Mexico) and just off the town’s main square. Begun in 1575, it was completed in 1664 and represents the pinnacle of New Spain Baroque architecture. Inside the main altar is ringed with smaller chapels, each exquisite in their own way, and many paintings original to the era. As beautiful and ornate as the cathedrals of Europe. Chapel of the Rosary The Chapel of the Rosary was finished in 1690 and is located inside the Church of Santo Domingo, a few blocks from the cathedral. It simply will take your breath away when you see the gold leaf and white interior of the chapel whose ornately plaster sculpted decorations are described as Churrigueresque, a style of the Spanish Baroque. Pictures do not do the chapel justice. The oldest library in the Americas Puebla is home to the oldest original library in the Americas, the Palafoxian Library. Named after the bishop who donated his private library of 5,000 books to Puebla in 1646, this library of 40,000 has remained in the same location since that time. Shelves from the 18th century have been beautifully restored as has the room, making it possible for visitors to imagine scholars of centuries past studying at the same tables. The library is on the second floor of Puebla’s Casa de la Cultura near the cathedral. Cholula A pre-Hispanic town west of Puebla, Cholula offers many interesting sights for visitors, most especially a chance to see one of the world’s largest pyramids. Alas, from afar it looks like a big hill, having been overgrown for centuries. Archeologists have done extensive exploration within the pyramid so that the non-claustrophobic can go inside; outside excavation has been hampered because the Spanish built a church on top of the pyramid, itself a cultural treasure worth seeing. One reason Cholula has so many churches is that the Spanish built a church on top of any pre-Hispanic religious site. Archeologists believe that the Great Pyramid was built in four stages from the 3rd Century BCE to the 9th Century CE and was dedicated to Quetzalcoatl. Archeological sites like Cantona Imagine a pre-Hispanic town where 80,000 Toltec Indians lived between 600 and 1000 CE. When you stand on a hill at Cantona, an archeological site two hours north of Puebla, you will be looking at what is believed to be the largest pre-Hispanic urban center in Mesoamerica. Following a two million dollar excavation in the mid-nineties, Cantona established itself as one of Mexico’s most important finds. The stone streets go on seemingly forever, in surprisingly good shape considering their age and the fact that builders did not use mortar. Candy Alley No visit to Puebla would be complete without a stroll down Candy Alley, a two-block stretch of Avenida 6 Oriente near the Chapel of the Rosary filled with candy shops. Colorful displays of Mexican and Puebla confections fill shop windows one after another, offering the perfect opportunity to learn about another of Puebla’s culinary delights.
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This convent and its temple occupied two entire blocks and date back to 1629. This is one of the most besieged constructions in all the war conflicts that the city suffered since it had a strategic position and defended the south and west entrances of the city. Its exterior presents two covers of sober style. The main one dates from the 17th century and is made up of two bodies and a finial, adorned with Doric-style pilasters and niches that house magnificent sculptures. In the upper part, there is a central relief made of marble where “The vision of Saint Augustine” is represented, where the saint is seen prostrate on his knees and helped by a pair of angels. The side portal is Herrerian style and has a more sober style than the main one. In the pediment that is broken, the Augustinian shield can be distinguished, which is a heart pierced by two arrows that symbolize the divine love that burned in Saint Augustine. It has a cross plan and its dome is reminiscent of Byzantine-style domes. Inside, the beautiful sculpture of San Nicolás Tolentino located in one of the side chapels stands out.
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The Puebla Cable Car is a tourist attraction in the city of Puebla. It is located in the area of the Forts, communicating the Exhibitor Center, whose station is 58 meters high, with the monument to Zaragoza, where the station is 48 meters above the ground. From the cabins, you can contemplate the largest urban mural in the world, a panoramic view of the city, as well as the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanoes. Besides the forts, other attractions in the vicinity are the Paseo del Teleferico Park, the planetarium, and the Museum of Evolution. The cable car has two gondolas that provide service to a maximum of 35 people per cabin, with a travel time of between three and five minutes. The inauguration of this transport system brought with it some criticism in the national media. In addition to exceeding the budgeted amount by 116%, it was widely criticized for the delay in the work, whose delivery date was changed four times, adding at the end three years more than what was provided. Originally, the project comprised a length of almost 2 kilometers, which would connect the Exhibitor Center, in the Los Fuertes area, with the Historic Center. In 2013, after the demolition of the Casa del Torno, a listed construction from the 17th century, the work was suspended after a judge ordered the suspension of the work in the Artist’s Quarter since the corresponding permits from the National Institute of Anthropology and History were not available. The hours of operation are Monday from 14:00 to 22:00 and Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 22:00.
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Check out the churches, museums, monuments, and other historical sites that make the city of Puebla a UNESCO World Heritage Center. Start your sightseeing at the center of town, the zócalo (main square), from which it’s easy to reach many of Puebla’s highlights on foot. If you’d rather not walk, Turibus runs bus tours of Puebla that depart daily and frequently, starting at 11 a.m., from the Calle 16 de Septiembre side of the square. Try the route that includes downtown and the Cinco de Mayo forts, which gives you a nice overview of the city. Since the city’s founding in 1531, the zócalo has served as a community-gathering place, where everything from political rallies and worker protests to concerts and holiday celebrations still happens today. The square previously hosted public hangings and bullfights, too — but a fountain has long since replaced the gallows, and matadors now slay 800-pound beasts in a proper ring. “The zócalo remains the core cultural, political, and religious center of the city of Puebla,” contributor Socorro Santin Nieto says on the state’s Web site. “It is an important part of everyday life for its inhabitants, as demonstrated by the citizen protests against the current mayor’s proposal to alter it in order to install an underground parking lot.” The south side of the square is flanked by Puebla’s main cathedral (Av. 16 de Septiembre at 3 Oriente). The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the tallest in Mexico, was built in several stages during the Colonial era. According to the state’s Encyclopedia of the Municipalities of Mexico, clergyman Francisco de Leyva laid the first stone in August 1536; three years later, the cathedral opened for worship. After undergoing lots of “repairs,” the church was consecrated in April 1649, but the facades and 240-foot-high towers were finished later. Construction was finally completed in 1768. The majestic structure combines Baroque, Mannerist, Neoclassic, Renaissance, and other styles to produce a unique religious landmark. Tourists are welcome Monday through Saturday, but to appreciate the church in its full Catholic splendor — candlelight, choir, pipe-organ music — attend the mass delivered by the archbishop most Sundays at 10:00. The Archdiocese of Mexico claims that the Puebla and Mexico City cathedrals, which shared an architect in Francisco de Becerra, “look like twins.” They really do not. Nearby, the Amparo Museum (2 Sur #708, between 7 and 9 Oriente) hosts traveling exhibitions and houses an impressive array of religious and pre-Hispanic art. Its permanent collections include various interpretations of the Virgin of Guadalupe and more than 2,000 artifacts from the pre-Classical to post-Classical periods, or roughly 2500 B.C. to 1521 A.D. A recent temporary show, “The Scars of Faith,” featured rare art from the Franciscan and Jesuit evangelists as they worked to establish missions in America while it was northern New Spain. Admission is free on Mondays, and the Amparo is closed on Tuesdays. For information about the museum and others nearby, see “Top 5 Museums for a Rainy Day in Puebla.” Heading north, the street 2 Sur takes you past the zócalo and the Casa de los Muñecos (2 Norte #2, between 2 Oriente and Don Juan de Palafox y Mendoza). The so-called House of Dolls gets its name from the grotesque human figures that decorate its brick and Talavera facade. Legend has it that the tiles depict — and were installed to ridicule — the city council members of 1792, who tried to stop then-owner Agustín de Ovando y Villavicencio from building a mansion taller than City Hall. He ultimately won. The 18th-century estate later served as a yarn warehouse, various retail stores, and the city’s first movie theater, El Lux, according to the Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), which in the 1980s restored the site’s original architecture and opened a cultural complex. Today the elaborate edifice accommodates a restaurant/bar and a New Interactive University Museum that mounts art, photography, and other exhibits. The Barrio del Artista is “a perfect place to enjoy a good cup of coffee and, of course, to check out the galleries that house permanent expositions by poblano artists, as well as a few works of outdoor theater,” professor Miguel Ángel Herrada notes on the city’s tourism website. Fine-arts fanatics shouldn’t miss a midday stroll through the Barrio del Artista, or Artists Quarter (6 Norte between 4 and 6 Oriente). The one-block area, once part of a Colonial market, was converted into individual workshops by a group of artists led by José Márquez Figueroa in the mid-20th century. On any given day, visitors can observe painters at work in their small studios and, of course, buy finished pieces. The small plaza in front of Café del Artista is where writer and director José Recek Saade staged theatrical events; he is honored, alongside poet María Sánchez Robredo and barrio founder/painter Márquez, with a bronze bust. A commemorative plaque recognizes musicians Rafael Hernández Marín and Bernardo San Cristóbal, who penned the beloved and well-covered anthem “Qué chula es Puebla” (“How Pretty Puebla Is”). Hernández was actually one of Puerto Rico’s most important 20th-century composers, but he lived in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s and put together many musical scores during the “golden age” of Mexican cinema. A short walk up 6 Norte takes you past Puebla’s main theater (6 Norte and 8 Oriente), which is considered one of the oldest in the Americas. The Teatro principal opened in 1760, but just a few decades later was used as an artillery hold during the War of Independence and, afterward, as a bullfighting ring. These activities left the theater “noticeably deteriorated,” the city’s tourism website notes. It was refurbished in 1820 only to suffer major structural damage in a 1902 fire. The theater was re-inaugurated in 1920 and its structure was updated again in 1941. The fountain out front, however, is from the Colonial era. The extremely heavy, buttressed walls of the Templo de San Francisco were built as high as possible — the tower >>Read more
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