City tour - Shrine of
Guadalupe - Pyramids of Teotihuacan. During the morning visit the main
streets and avenues of Mexico City. Visit to the main square (called Zocalo,
the National Palace in which you will admire the magnificent frescoes of
Diego Rivera (closed on sundays). The frescoes narrate with images the most
important events of our history during three centuries. We will see the
ruins of the main temple of the Aztecs as well as the Cathedral. Then, you
will make a stop in a handicraft center. On to Chapultepec Park, residential
area, where you will see the homes of famous artists. In the afternoon, on
the way to the sanctuary of Guadalupe short stop by the "Plaza de las 3
Culturas", where you see 3 different periods in the history of mexico
represented by 3 different kind of buildings: an archeological site, a
catholic church and a modern building of foreign affairs ministry.
We continue our tour to the
Basilica, where you will see the original image of the virgin mary appeard
on a simple piece of fabric belonging to the indian juan diego. You will see
both basilicas, the one of the XVIII century and the one devoted to the
virgin almost three decades ago. On a modern highway we will reach the site
of Teotihuacan "where men become gods" during your tour you will have the
time and opportunity to climb the amazing Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon
as well as to visit the Palace of Quetzal-Butterfly, the
Feather-Snake-temple and the Avenue of the Death as well as the Citadel. (10
hrs) |
