Calle Independencia: Guadalajara
Calle Independencia is the main street through this town. It has been refurbished and looks quite fancy and inviting. However, once you leave this main street you are away from the shops that sell the quality items. I walked around some of the side streets and I did find some shops, but nothing of the caliber of those shops along Calle Independencia.
This street is open to pedestrians only. The buildings along this street date from the late 17th century to the 20th century. They used to serve as homes for wealthy Guadalajarans back when Tlaquepaque was its own separate town from Guadalajara.
Parque Mirador Independencia: Guadalajara
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Barranca de Oblatos (Oblatos Canyon) : Guadalajara
This place is one of more impressive the natural spaces. It contains one of biomas more interesting of Mexico, the Tropical Forest Caducifolio, whose particularitity resides in lost of leaves at least the 7 months to the year. In order to be able to appreciate in all their magnitude this natural wonder viewpoints have been constructed to three parks: Viewpoint of Huentitán, Park Viewpoint Independence and Dr.ATL Viewpoint; as well as, the park of games and the zoological Guadalajara.
Also it has a pretty and impressive cascade that calls tail to him of horse in
Ciudad del Carmen
This is the hot, bursting-at-fhe-seams principal oil port of the region and is being "' developed into one of the biggest and most modern on the Gulf. Its important 0 shrimping and prawning fleets are also expanding and much ship building is undertaken. The site was originally established in 1588 by a pirate named McGregor as a lair from which to raid Spanish shipping; it was infamous until the pirates were wiped out by Alfonso Felipe de Andrade in 1717, who then named the town after its patroness, the Virgen del Carmen.
Carmen is situated on
Monumento a los Heroes de la Independencia: Mexico City
Monumento a los Héroes de la Independencia
A first monument to Independence was designed in the Seat of the Constitution without it got to be constructed. He was president Antonio Lopez of Santa Ana who, after summoning an aid, assigned to the project to the architect Lorenzo to him of the Hidalga. The design consisted of a great commemorative column flanked by sources, its construction began in 1843 but, due to the unstable situation of the country, the socle, or plinth was only finished, that would support the column; this plinth baptized to the seat of the Constitution like? the Socle.
Alliance Francaise de Guadalajara
This institute in Guadalajara is designed to promote French culture through classes, films and various exhibits.
Address
López Cotilla, 1199
Colonia Americana
Guadalajara 44120
Mexico
Tel: 52-3-8252140
Regional Museum of Guadalajara (Museo Regional de Guadalajara): Guadalajara
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Shopping in Puebla
Craft shops sponsored by the authorities:
Tienda Convento Santa Rosa, Calle 3 Norte 1203, T28904. The famous Puebla Talavera tiles may be purchased from factories outside Puebla, or from Taller Uriarte, Av 4 Pte 911 (spectacular building, tours Mon-Fri 1000-1200, 1700, Sat 1000-1300, morning best).
Talavera de la Reyna, Camino a la Carcana 2413, Recta a Cholula, T/F845821. Recommended (also in Hotel Meson del Angel);
Centra de Talavera, Calle 6 Ote 11;
D Aguilar, 40 Pte 106, opposite Convento de Santa Monica, and
Casa Rugerio, 18 Pte 111;
Margarita Guevara, 20 Pte 30. Mercado Venustiano Carranza, on 11 Norte
An interesting day trip from Puebla is to Cuetzalan market (via Tetela-Huahuaxtla) which is held on Sunday in the Zocalo (three hours walk up). In the first week of Octo- ber each year dancers from local villages gather and voladores 'fly' from the top of their pole. Nahua Indians sell cradles (huacaks) for children, machetes and embroidered garments. Women decorate their hair with skeins of wool. The Dia de los Muertos (2 , November) is interesting here. Big clay dogs are made locally, unique stoves which hold large flat clay plates on which tortillas are
University of Guadalajara Assembly Hall: Guadalajara
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