Mexico City Trip Overview
Spend an entire day visiting two iconic cities in Mexico: Taxco and Cuernavaca. Get to know its main monuments and let yourself be captivated by the colonial charm of its buildings and the beauty of its landscapes. In Cuernavaca we will know the Cathedral, the Palace of Cortés and the monument to Morelos. In Taxco we will visit the church of Santa Prisca. You will also have the opportunity to see and buy exclusive silver crafts in this city, famous for its mines worldwide.
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Duration: 10 hours
Starts: Mexico City, Mexico
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Mexico City, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, Mexico
Spend an entire day visiting two iconic cities in Mexico: Taxco and Cuernavaca. Get to know its main monuments and let yourself be captivated by the colonial charm of its buildings and the beauty of its landscapes. In Cuernavaca we will know the Cathedral, the Palace of Cortés and the monument to Morelos. In Taxco we will visit the church of Santa Prisca. You will also have the opportunity to see and buy exclusive silver crafts in this city, famous for its mines worldwide.
Itinerary
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Pass By: Cuernavaca, Cuernavaca, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast
The City of Eternal Spring will be our first stop. There we will take a panoramic walk through the city to know its main monuments.
We will enjoy the view of the Cathedral, one of the oldest buildings in the country, part of the set of the First 16th-century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl, declared a World Heritage Site. We will also see the exterior of the Palacio de Cortés, built by order of Hernán Cortés in the years immediately after the conquest of Mexico.
Lastly, we will observe the Monument to Morelos, an insurgent military man and a Mexican patriot, who organized and was the architect of the second stage of the Mexican War of Independence.
Stop At: Taxco, Taxco, Pacific Coast
We will continue our tour on the way to Taxco, a colonial city with hundreds of years of history, located on a hill with winding cobblestone streets, cozy squares and a strong imprint of the old world that has managed to survive through the centuries.
Here there will be time to have lunch where you want and then we will visit one of the largest churches in Mexico: Santa Prisca, built in 1759 in a New Spanish Baroque style and with stones from the area.
Taxco is known worldwide for its silver mines and is one of the oldest mining centers on the continent, with working mines and a culture of metal crafts dating from the time of the Viceroyalty. You will have the opportunity to see and buy silverware in this exclusive place.
At the end of the visit we will return to Mexico City.
Duration: 4 hours
