Puebla is undoubtedly, a city where you can spend a very profitable vacation, either you want to get in touch with nature, history, culture or to enjoy maximum relaxation, here you will always find the perfect activity for you and your family.
Puebla features beautiful rivers, lagoons, waterfalls, caverns, volcanoes and mountains among its natural wonders. In the surroundings of the city you can find a great variety of archeological sites, where you will be able to learn about the ancient civilizations that inhabited these lands. Cantona, The Cholula Pyramid, Tepapayeca, Xiutetelco y Yohualichan, are clear examples of these sites.
Puebla features beautiful buildings that are impressive samples of the Baroque architecture. Decorated with gorgeous ornaments, they make the Historic Center a colorful place worth to be visited. Puebla features countless museums, convents, churches and sanctuaries among its main attractions. The most representative museums are: Amparo Museum, IMAGINA Interactive Museum, the Religious Art Museum, the Viceroyal Art Museum and the Bello Museum, perfect for Puebla sightseeing.
Amparo Museum
The Amparo Museum was established in 1991; its exhibition rooms look modern, with their spacious showcases, large monitors and touch screens that display the pieces in exhibition, there are also headphones with Spanish, English, French, German and Japanese translations explaining everything you need. It also features state-of-the-art technology as well as one of the most important masterpiece collections in Mexico, making of this, one of the best in Latin America. A great architecture design and a magnificent organization are blended in this museum.
The Main Square
The Main Square is surrounded by beautiful gardens, huge trees and gorgeous Colonial buildings. In ancient times, this place served as scenery for splendid regional festivities that gave life and color to this city; its large doors and beautiful streets were the perfect scene for theatrical plays, parties, religious celebrations and bullfights used to be performed. These days the Zocalo is frequented for its cultural traditions or for the entertainment in the public gardens.
Cholula
The Cholula's Pyramid is one of the main Puebla attractions. This magnificent place was built to venerate the god of the rain Chiconahui Quiahuitl; it is one of the biggest monuments in the world. With a 210 ft height and a 1476 ft long platform, this pyramid is twice as tall as Keops in Egypt.
During the excavations in this beautiful archeological site have been found 5 miles of tunnels, the Mural de las Mariposas and the Mural de los Bebedores with more than a hundred anthropomorphic figures that dramatize a ceremony to the god of the Pulque, Octli. On the site 7 pyramids were built one over the other on a 6-century period, till giving to the pyramid its current dimension.
Popocatepetl-Iztacihuatl National Park
If you enjoy getting in touch with nature, you can not miss visiting this impressive place that will provide you with lots of adventure and boosts of adrenaline. You can practice hiking, reaching the highest peaks of the Popocatepetl at 17,887 ft and the Iztacihuatl at 17,322 ft height.
Take a deep into the forest and the plateau of one of the largest national parks in Mexico and discover its wild fauna. White tale deer, wild hens, hawks and crows are some of the species you will find when exploring the Sierra Nevada. In its slopes is located this marvelous park, where you will be able to breathe fresh air on the mountains and experience a winter frost.
Africam Safari
In this wonderful zoo, you will have the opportunity to admire a great variety of wild animal species as they were on their natural environment. Africam Safari was established in 1972 by the Captain Carlos Camacho, even though it was conceived to be a private collection, nowadays shelters more than 300 animals of around 250 species, allowing the visitors to interact with them.
Main Theater
In 1706 was inaugurated on an important commerce spot the Main Theatre, with a space to accommodate up to 1600 people. Later, during the Independence Battle was used as an artillery warehouse. At its reopening, was used to organize bullfights that seriously damaged it. In 1820 got its current name and was rebuilt, but in 1902 caught fire after a performance, losing almost all its colonial structure. Years later, it was rebuilt and equipped, that is why it's working up to date. At present, the surrounding area of the Main Theatre, is a pedestrian walkway where is also the Artist District; here artists and sculptors gather to exhibit and display their masterpieces. It is a place you must visit in Puebla sightseeing!