Guadalajara is a large city in the Western-Pacific region of Mexico, located at 20.67° N, 103.35° W. Guadalajara is the capital of the state of Jalisco.
It is the second most populous city in Mexico, with an estimated population of 1,640,000 people in 2004. The Guadalajara metropolitan area also includes the municipalities of Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Tlajomulco, and Ixtlahuacan. The estimated population of the metropolitan area was 3.7 million in 2000.
Guadalajara is known as La Perla del Occidente (Spanish for “Pearl of the West"), la Perla TapatÃa ("tapatÃo” is an informal adjective of origin for people and things from Guadalajara) and, Ciudad de las Rosas. The city is also the birthplace of Mariachi music and Charreadas.
Callejón del Diablo (Casa Turismo): Guadalajara
This excellent house of neoGalician style that was built in 1589. It is now turned Offices of Tourism of the State of Jalisco the offices of Santa Inquisición were during the colony, at the host present time of small tianguis of necklaces, bracelets and accessories and in the corner is the source of "the children". The alley on which it is knows like Corner of the Devil by the legend to that at the time of the colony was given rise; like the one of Devilish Adultero that was hung here, or the one of
Amparo Cabrera Art Gallery: Guadalajara
Started in 1994, an innovating project with the intention of offering to the public and the artist an integral service of manufacture, distribution and representation of all type of necessary products for the art and the decoration, as well as promotion of artists and new values of the plastic one.
Address : Progreso #678, Colonia Americana
Guadalajara, Jalisco.
C.P: 44100
Tel: (33) 3827-2425/38271369/3827-2123
Schedule: Monday through Friday of 9,00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Aqua Gallery: Guadalajara
Aqua Gallery is an exhibition of painting, sculpture, carpets handmade and recorded. Representatives of tapatÃos artists like Jorge Martinez, Enrique Magaña, Bright Mayan, Laura Garci'a Rulfo, Héctor Javier Ramirez, Maria Teresa Mendiola, Jose Galindo and Jesus Bush.
Address :Aztecas #995, Colonia Fracc. Monraz
Guadalajara, Jalisco.
C.P: 44670
Tel/Fax: (33) 3642 1377
Schedule: Monday through Friday 10:00 to 14:00 hrs. and 17:00 to 19:00 hrs.
Basilica de Zapopan: Guadalajara
The Basilica of Zapopan, east links, gives old gratification in Jalisco and is considered an architectural gem. The monks franciscains built the doric colonial basilica of era in 1690. It has a Gothic jumped ceilings, a Corinthian furnace bridge and a flowered frontage of Plateresque-model typical gives Spanish. Honouring the Virgin with the immaculate, known design today in so much which Virgin of Zapopan, the each 12 October the religious festival of RomerÃa of the Virgin of Zapopan reveals here. South links curious remark, during the Mexican revolution the row of general at southern summer granted three
Mexico, U.S. Break Up Counterfeit Ring
Mexico and the United States broke up a counterfeiting ring that printed an estimated $5 million in fake $100 bills in Mexico and sold them across the border, officials said Wednesday.
The ring, based in the western state of Jalisco, operated more than four years, selling fake $100 bills in Santa Ana, Calif., San Diego, Calif, and Phoenix, Ariz., said Jose Luis Marmolejo, of the attorney general's organized crime division.
The bills, produced with offset printing equipment, were "one of the best falsifications we've seen," Marmolejo said.
Authorities arrested six people, including a man they
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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New Eruption at Mexico's Volcano of Fire
A small eruption Tuesday of the Volcano of Fire in western Mexico scattered ash onto adjacent towns, the Jalisco state civil defense agency said.
No injuries were reported.
Clouds obscured the plume of gas and ash triggered by the eruption at 5:07 a.m. (6:07 a.m. EDT). The towns affected were to the west and southwest of the volcano, the agency said.
The 12,533-foot volcano on the border of Jalisco and Colima states — 420 miles west of Mexico City — is among the country's most active and most dangerous.
It has erupted repeatedly in recent years. On Sept.
State Public Library (La Biblioteca Publica del Estado): Guadalajara
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University of Guadalajara Assembly Hall: Guadalajara
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