The City
Visiting the Historic Center
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The capital of Oaxaca was designated by UNESCO as Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 1987. It is a city with its own flavor, artistic and architectural treasures like no other, it is a unique place where you can walk through its streets and take you the memory of having been in a colonial city that was founded in the 15th century, with an admirable urban layout, beautiful buildings and incomparable traditions.
If you have some time, we suggest you visit the Santo Domingo Cultural Center, which houses one of the most beautiful churches in the city: the Temple of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, beautiful for its baroque decoration and gold altarpieces. On one side you will also find the Museum of Cultures with history from pre-Columbian times to the present day and at the back the Ethnobotanical Garden, which officially opened its doors in 1998 and was designed by the Oaxacan artist Francisco Toledo, where the great variety of endemic flora of Oaxaca, which is the state with the greatest biodiversity in the entire country.
A walk through the Tourist Walk in the morning or mid-afternoon is fabulous, you can observe the Oaxacan architecture and see some churches built with beautiful green quarry typical of this city. The street of Macedonio Alcalá will lead you directly to the Alameda de León where the Cathedral and the Zócalo of the city of Oaxaca are located, if you want to travel the city from north to south by bus you can do it in the Tourist Truck that you can board in the Morelos street on the corner of Macedonio Alcalá.
Just a couple of blocks from the Zócalo there are three markets: Mercado Benito Juárez, Mercado 20 de Noviembre and Mercado de Artesanías. If you want to buy chocolate, mezcal, quesillo, grasshoppers or simply live a day in the plaza, these places are going to enchant you.
Let yourself be seduced by the beautiful streets of Oaxaca and visit some of these places of interest:
Centro Cultural Santo Domingo
The Santo Domingo Cultural Center is a cultural complex that is located in what was one of the most important convents in the colony. It is a large space in which the Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca, the San Francisco de Burgoa Library and the Ethnobotanical Garden have been established.
Address: Macedonio Alcalá s/n, RUTA INDEPENDENCIA, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca, Oax.
Andador Turístico
It is one of the main streets in the city of Oaxaca. Cobbled street with green quarry that in 1985 it closed the way to vehicles to become a pedestrian street.
Address: Macedonio Alcalá, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca, Oax.
Mercado de Artesanías
Small market where you can find blouses, Teotitlán textiles, rugs, bags, souvenirs , black clay, alebrijes and typical toys. Ideal place to buy "souvenirs" near the center.
Address: Gral. Ignacio Zaragoza, OAX_RE_BENITO JUAREZ, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca, Oax.
Centro Cultural y Académico San Pablo
It offers different areas, including a library of indigenous language and cultures of Oaxaca, in addition the church atrium and the old San Pablo alley that connects the side streets and generates a pedestrian walkway was recovered.
Address: Miguel Hidalgo (Av. Hidalgo) 907, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca, Oax.
Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca
The Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca (IAGO) is a museum-library created by the painter Francisco Toledo, together with the INBA.
Address: Macedonio Alcalá 507, RUTA INDEPENDENCIA, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca, Oax.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca
Through its facilities and activities, it shows that the present and the past can be integrated into a valuable and original experience.
Address: Macedonio Alcalá 202, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca, Oax.
Museo de Filatelia
It is the only museum in Latin America dedicated exclusively to postal art, in all its forms and manifestations.
Address: Reforma 504, RUTA INDEPENDENCIA, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca, Oax.
Museo Textil
Provides a view on Oaxacan textiles, Mexico and the world.
Address: Miguel Hidalgo 917, Centro Histórico, 68000 Oaxaca, Oax.
Plaza de la Danza
The Plaza de la Danza was built in 1959, where cultural and artistic events are held, on one side is the Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude and the traditional snows of Oaxaca, which have created international fame.
Address: Calle del 2 de Abril, CALZADA MADERO, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax.
Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Calle de Manuel Bravo 104, RUTA INDEPENDENCIA, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax.
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