Visit one of the most beautiful and representative Mexican cities. The best way to get around Puebla is to start from its very heart: the Historic Center, where you will find countless museums, convents and loads of baroque buildings that will take you into a journey to the past, making you fall in love with this amazing city.
Puebla is an authentic jewel of first-class architecture. The gray stone, mortar and the polychrome ceramic tiles are a distinctive feature of Puebla's design style, as it can be easily appreciated on the covering of every building façade's, mainly on San Pantaleon, San Juan & San Pedro old seminaries, which once where known as the Tridentino Seminary.
While spending your unparallel Puebla vacations, you can also take a tour to the amazing archaeological sites and the beautiful museums; dine at delightful restaurants, find countless handicrafts stores, wild nightclubs and beautiful water springs. Besides all this, you will also find warm and kind people who will make sure your stay is an unforgettable experience you will hold close to your heart forever.
This city also features first-class hotels, malls and excellent congress and convention facilities, making of Puebla, a perfect destination for those who come on a business trip as well as for the ones who enjoy taking a deep into culture on their vacation.
Description
The beauty, gastronomy and the handicrafts of Puebla are some of the reasons why all the people who visit it, fall in love with this amazing tourist destination and wish to come back again and again.
A gorgeous landscape formed by the lush vegetation of the forests and jungles, perfectly combines with the beauty of the mountains of the eastern Sierra Madre, wrapping up the magnificence of the Historic Center, where you will find a handful of temples, majestic palaces and convents; that stand out because of their charming gray quarry and red brick façade's, splashed with polychrome tiles and beautifully decorated internal vaults, raising up as the most representative example of the Mexican baroque.
Its gastronomy is a big part of Puebla's charm. During your Puebla vacations, you will have the chance to taste some of the most exquisite Mexican dishes. Puebla's gastronomy has an interesting and close bond to the history of this country. The well known "Chiles en Nogada" were created by the nuns of the Angustias convent as a way to pay homage to Agustin de Iturbide when he returned from Cordoba, Veracruz, after signing the Independence of Mexico.
We invite you to learn about Puebla's handicrafts and its beautiful earthenware such as vases, pitchers, comales ( cast clay plates used to make tortillas) and pans. Find detailed pieces made of Talavera or ceramics, beautiful ornamental figures made for the day of the dead and many other gorgeous decorative objects conceived by the minds of the artisans of this amazing place, who use all the materials within their reach to create amazingly attractive and colorful figures.
Architectural Historic Jewels
Puebla is one of the cities with the highest number of historic monuments and ancient buildings from the 16th, 17th & 18th centuries, which deserve to be mentioned. Amongst the main ones we'll find the cathedral which started being built on November 1575 by order of King Felipe II, but its construction was slow and it was interrupted several times, taking a total of 300 years to be finished. By 1640 it was built half-way and pitifully forsaken. Finally it was Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza who re-established the construction on April 18 th, 1649 and it kept on during most of the centuries 17th & 18th, until it was concluded.
Another architectonic jewel is the Palafox Library, built in 1773 and declared Mexico's Historic Monument on 1981 by the federal government. This interesting library takes its name from the once Bishop of Puebla, Don Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, who donated 5,000 books to start the library. The collection gradually increased until it had 41,582 books, turning the Palafox Library into the richest compilation in all the Spanish America.
La Casa Museo del Alfeñique is a beautiful museum that takes its name from the sugar pastes know as alfeñiques which are very famous in Puebla because its plentiful and delicate decoration of white mortar looks like these famous candies. This amazing building was constructed during the 18th century and was paid for by Don Juan Ignacio Morelos, who promised his wife a house that would look like almond nougat candies, which inspired the gorgeous ornaments that surround the verandas and undulates its cornices in subtle projections concentrated on the main façade's balcony. This museum shelters important documents for the graphic history, such as: codices, paintings, city plans and pictures of great value for the study of Puebla.
Puebla vacations will provide you with an unforgettable experience full of culture, history and beauty!