Oaxaca Trip Overview
Monte Alban is the large urban center built by Zapotec culture. It is the most important archaeological area of the State of Oaxaca. Part of the LIST of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this will be our first stop.
Arrazola is a village of artisans, famous for its Copal wooden figures, carved and painted fantastically, which are exhibited and sold as “Alebrijes”.
We will visit Cuilapam de Guerrero, Former Dominican monastery of the sixteenth century. Where the Open Chapel protrudes. This is where General Vicente Guerrero was shot.
Finally, we will visit San Bartolo Coyotepec, known worldwide for the famous black mud.
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Duration: 8 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Oaxaca, Mexico
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Monte Alban is the large urban center built by Zapotec culture. It is the most important archaeological area of the State of Oaxaca. Part of the LIST of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this will be our first stop.
Arrazola is a village of artisans, famous for its Copal wooden figures, carved and painted fantastically, which are exhibited and sold as “Alebrijes”.
We will visit Cuilapam de Guerrero, Former Dominican monastery of the sixteenth century. Where the Open Chapel protrudes. This is where General Vicente Guerrero was shot.
Finally, we will visit San Bartolo Coyotepec, known worldwide for the famous black mud.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Zona Arqueologica de Monte Alban, Oaxaca Mexico
Monte Albán is the large urban center built by Zapotec culture. It is the most important archaeological area of the State of Oaxaca. Part of the LIST of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this will be our first stop.
In Monte Albán the Teotihuacana influence is appreciated in its architecture, ceramics and mural painting among other aspects. At the end of the Early Classic the link with Teotihuacán is broken and the Zapotec territorial political organization reaches the highest level of development but also of social inequality (González Licón 2011). For the Postclassic the power of Mount Albán as a hegemonic city was totally lost, and the cities of the central valleys are influenced by the advent of the Mixtec groups. Monte Albán is no exception, with this influence appreciated in the famous tomb 7 discovered by Alfonso Caso in 1932.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Arrazola, Oax., Mexico
San Antonio Arrazola is located 10 km from the road to Zaachila. Commonly known as “Arrazola”, famous for the manufacture of alebrijes: Mexican craftsmanship created by Manuel Jiménez. It is made with different types of paper or wood carved and painted with cheerful and vibrant colors, represented by jaguars, tigers, mermaids, cats and nahuales. Although today they can be made with various techniques, this community stands out for using wood carving, a knowledge transmitted from generation to generation. Visit the Museum – Workshop of Angelica Jiménez, grandson of Don Manuel, to appreciate or acquire one of these pieces of art.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Taller de Angelico Jiménez, Emiliano Zapata, A San Antonio Arrazola #4, 71230 Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oax., Mexico
Don Manuel Jiménez, was the pioneer and initiator of this craft since 1927, he began at the age of 8 to make this craft with zompantle wood, eagle stick and even today the Copal wood, he began to make like his toys when he herded cattle on the slopes of Monte Alban, when over time he takes it as a job. Likewise, he had a dream, he dreamed of being under a great tree, whose branches touched the sky, and he was sitting there under the feet of that huge tree, and in that dream people came in great numbers to present themselves before him, and They said to him, your hands and your forehead will do the work for your country, others said you will have great honor with the great ones and you will go from nation to nation…. He thought that was impossible since as poor he was, that it would be true. However such a dream pointed out that this craft was going to be so famous and recognized nationally and internationally.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: 71294 San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
Previously it was known as Zaapeche which means “Place of jaguars” belonging to the Zapotec ethnic group of the central valleys. This is a town full of deeply rooted customs and traditions, where the mysticism, the essence and the warmth that shelters a town are enclosed, where its inhabitants transmit, teach and inherit it generation after generation.
This community is characterized by being the only one in the world due to its high percentage of the population that is dedicated to the elaboration of black clay pottery, a pre-Hispanic occupation dating from remote times, it is a virtue of this its knowledge and practice to elaborate utilitarian slab and decoration, there are artisans who make pieces for aesthetic purposes.
There is only the church, dating from the sixteenth century, there are also vestiges of buildings that were ceremonial centers or intended for the lords.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Cuilapan de Guerrero, Cuilapan de Guerrero, Southern Mexico
Poblado located 10 kilometers from the city of Oaxaca, adjoins to the south with the Villa de Zaachila, to the north with San Pedro Ixtlahuaca, to the east with Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan and San Raymundo Jalpan, to the west with the Villa de Zaachila.
Name that comes from Nahuatl and means “Place or Valley of Cocoyoles”, this means that:
CUILAPAM: Cocoyoles Valley
CUILAPAN: Cocoyoles Place
From Guerrero in honor of the hero of the homeland Vicente Guerrero, since in this place he was shot in 1831.
It was founded in 1551 at the bee of Fray Domingo de Oguinaga, this since the idea of evangelizing had spread and by the conditions of the place was built a rudimentary temple and a small aqueduct, which caused the Mixtecs and Zapotecs to increase considerably, over time the Spanish order granted permits for the inhabitants to build the current convent.
EX – CONVENT AND MUSEUM
It is the main tourist attraction of the community and one of the most important in Oaxaca.
Duration: 1 hour
