Puebla

PUEBLA: located 120 km of Mexico City, being one of the great cities, it keeps its colonial enchantment thanks to its more than thousand buildings and churches, between  the most famous is the Chapel of the Rosary decorated with gold and the Cathedral of renaissance and baroque style. The crafts of Talavera on ceramics are famous and have served to ornament interiors and exteriors of many buildings. Puebla has been characterized like a cultural city, witness of it is the Palafoxian Library, the oldest one of the continent. There is also the famous house of the Alfeñique and the Museum Amparo. Just in the outside of Puebla, the fort of Loreto remembers us the French intervention and  the battle of Puebla, on  May 5th of 1862. A few kilometers from the city are two treasures of Mexican sacred art, the baroque churches of Santa Maria Tonantzintla and San Francisco Acatepec. Another architectonic jewel is the archaeological site of Cholula and its enormous pyramid of 400 m of side, which is the biggest of thel world, its visit takes place through subterraneans that cross the different constructive stages from this enormous building.