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Guadalajara travel information.
Guadalajara represents, in the Latin-American environment, a
city that we could defined as contrasting, its underlying
identity in its historic, cultural, human, tourist, industrial
and commercial patrimony, gives it, beyond doubt, a series of
powerful elements that made of Guadalajara an obliged point of
reference in a state, national and international scale.
At the moment Guadalajara offers a great diversity of landscapes,
cultural, educational, commercial and gastronomic centers,
without given up the mention that the hotel capacity that
Guadalajara offers is of around 20 thousand rooms.
The “Most beautiful city of Mexico” keeps adding beauty at his
appearance, adapting to the changes characteristic of the
technology and the development of a great and gentile city
willing to receive the citizens of the world.
At the moment Guadalajara offers a great diversity of landscapes,
cultural, educational, commercial and gastronomic centers,
without given up the mention that the hotel capacity that
Guadalajara offers is of around 20 thousand rooms. The “Most
beautiful city of Mexico” keeps adding beauty at his appearance,
adapting to the changes characteristic of the technology and the
development of a great and gentile city willing to receive the
citizens of the world.
Mix of tradition and vanguard, Guadalajara is cradle of the
symbols that represent Mexico in the world: the mariachi, the
tequila, the charrería and the handicrafts, as well as its
beautiful women.
The gastronomy of Guadalajara deserve a special mention, since
achieve an exquisite combination of flavors, colors and bouquets,
by the meaning of typical meals, a mix of prehispanic and
colonial tradition, such as: pozole, birria, tortas ahogadas,
jericallas and tejuino. This cuisine has a great variety of
restaurants that goes from the high and fusion cuisine to the
Mexican most typical.
Guadalajara, hostess of important national and international
congress, exhibitions and conventions.
All this makes of Guadalajara an excellent destination for the
development of the recreation, fun and businesses activities.
This is the ideal place to expand your business horizons,
because this city offers you everything, you just have to
establish your goals, and here they will be completed.
The Minerva
The goddess of the wisdom, the handicraft and the civic
liberties watches, over her water mirror, all person that
surrounds her source, our bronze Minerva veils Guadalajara.
The Arches
In 1942 the victory arrived at Guadalajara with the construction
of these neoclassicist style Arches, entrance of the city to the
success. The foundation of Guadalajara was celebrated with the
creation of this work, in its west face you can read
“Guadalajara Hospitalaria” which means “hospitable Guadalajara”,
and in its east face it reads “pleasant stay is return guarantee”.
Those arches were witnesses of the plains where you can only
observed the highway and Country Club, at the moment they
observe the daily step of hundred of people that work and they
enjoy in the city. To the sides, two watchmen of Mariano Azuela
and José Clemente Orozco size accompanies these Arches, who are
in charge of welcoming to all that that goes by the city.
Walk of the Tapatia Square
In the heart of the City, surrounded by buildings like the
Jeweler Center, the Walk of the Tapatia Square was founded, two
walkways are walked, one that begins in the later part of the
Degollado Theater and another in one of its sides. At the
beginning of the first walkway is the located the fountain and
Founders Square, place in which the city was founded in 1542.
The culmination of this great walk is a historical quarry
building, the Cabañas Hospice, exquisite work of 23 interior
patios in whose dome live the frescoes of the Mexican muralista
José Clemente Orozco, all they observe from the heights the pass
of the humans who observe them back, to know the Mexico history.
The Arm’s Square
This is the place where a French beautiful kiosk from last
century sustained by eight musical different instruments
resides, they have supported the pass of the time thanks to the
beauty of the art that are play there; in its roof, elaborated
with fine woods, resonate every Thursday and Sundays the tones
of the Band of the State.
Mariachi’s Square
In earth of mariachis these can’t be missed, that’s why there is
a point in which, at any hour of the day, your can encounter
with the men that interpret the deepest feelings of Mexico.
Mariachi Square is the alias of the Pepe Guízar Square, who gave
their name to the men that are always dressed and ready for the
occasion to celebrate.
The Rotunda of the Illustrious Jalisciences
Because the illustrious men of Guadalajara continue living in
the city, it is that 98 urns remain in the Rotunda of the
Illustrious Jalisciences, 18 columns without base announce to
the world that there resides the remains of the most outstanding
men in Jalisco.
The Guadalajara’s Cathedral
The faith of the tapatíos rests in this building of Gothic,
Baroque and neoclassicist style, from where stand out two towers
that have the form of two pelicans all way down, recovered with
yellow and representative mosaics of the Guadalajara Cathedral.
The best organ in the history of New Spain settled in this
Cathedral, French watchman of the other two organs that were
ordered to build later on, and who accompany the sounds of the
first. The Cathedral is dedicated to Immaculate Concepción's
Virgin and keeps in its sacred interior treasures as the
painting of "Asunción of the Virgin of the Skies."
The Belén Mausoleum
The legends of the oral tradition of Guadalajara have their best
scenario in the historical Belén Mausoleum, originally called
Santa Paula Mausoleum, founded in 1848 and closed in 1896. To
backs of the Civil Hospital, this is the place of rest of the
souls, space where the time seems to be stopped to open the way
to unusual histories that have passed from mouth to mouth and
from time to time. Considered at the moment as national monument,
it was home of the illustrious men's that were moved to the
Rotunda of the Illustrious Jalisciences. Every year the cemetery
opens its doors to the visitors who want to celebrate the Day of
Dead amid a dismal and mysterious atmosphere, being witnesses of
a theatrical representation of great quality. At the present,
they are carried out nocturne journeys, on Fridays at the 20.00
hours.
House of Government
Built in 1650, from 1653 to 1790 was the headquarters of the
Audience of New Galicia, later on of the governors of the state
of Jalisco. A tremor in 1750 provoked that the construction
collapsed, to later be reconstructed with golden quarry of
Huentitán. With a facade of Baroque and churrigueresque style,
it houses in their interior paintings of the muralista José
Clemente Orozco, who carried out the most realistic image of the
Hidalgo Priest's, titled "Hidalgo Libertador".
City Hall
This is a creation whose construction began in 1950 as a work of
the architect's Vicente Mendiola, being inaugurated in December
31 of 1952 officially. In the piazza is observed in high relief
the Coat of Arms of the city and in their interior stays the
Gabriel Flores work titled "The Foundation of Guadalajara".
Court house
Originally a girls' school, this construction has in its
interior a central patio with a fountain, on the outside is
observed the building of two plants with a quarry façade. The
cube of the stairway is adorned with the mural of the artist
Guillermo Chávez Vega, titled "Reformation and Constitution."
Degollado Theater
It is one of the architectural most important works in the
country, a creation of the architect Jacobo Gálvez, and
inaugurated in 1856 with the opera Lucía of Lamermoor. Before it
sustained the name of "Alarcón Theater" later on was rebaptized
in honor of the general Santos Degollado. In its quarry facade
was placed a marble relief with the Apollo's and the Nine Muses
image. Inside, the vault is adorned with the Gerardo's Suárez
and Jacobo Gálvez frescoes, the ones that remember the Quarter
Song of the Divine Comedy. This theater is at the moment the
home of hundred of cultural shows that are presented in this
architectural jewel during the whole year.
Cabañas Hospice
As a great architectural work of neoclassicist style, this
institute was developed by the bishop Juan Cruz Ruíz de Cabañas,
as housing for orphans, old men and abandoned, with the function
of teaching. Don Manuel Tolsá, renamed architect, was the
responsible of the building in which would be carried out the
bishop's projects, finishing their construction in 1845. The
enclosure is at the moment The Cabañas Institute Cultural, and
in its interior are conserved the 23 patios, 106 rooms, 72
corridors and two chapels, one of them adorned with the
important works of the muralista José Clemente Orozco. In a two
year-old creative period the artist painted 53 murals in the
walls, vault and dome of the chapel, reflecting important
moments of the history of Mexico. The Cabañas Cultural Institute
is member of the protected constructions, after having been
named Historical Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO.
Square of the Nine Corners
Famous Square, in which four streets converge giving it the name
that characterizes it by being possible to count, from the
center, the nine corners. In this place settles a traditional
market full with color in the months of May and June with the
prospective sale of the pitayas. But it is not its only
attractiveness, during the whole year one can enjoy the famous
birria and other traditional dishes.
San Felipe Neri’s Temple
At the end of the XVII Century arrived in Guadalajara a group of
filipenses priests, moving from square to square they finally
arrived at the Square of La Palma, place in which a small temple
was built, base of what today is known as San Felipe Neri’s
Temple. Don Pedro Ciprés began to build the church that was
finished in 1802, in honor to the Virgin's Asunción. It stands
out inside this temple the paintings in those are represented
scenes of the Virgin, paintings that still conserve their
original marks.
Nuestra Señora de Aranzazú’s Temple
Construction that dates of the XVII century, built between 1749
and 1752, it was part the four restrictive chapels of the atrium
of the main convent of the Franciscan County of Santiago of
Jalisco. There are famous its churrigueresque altarpieces,
forming one of the most admired temples in Guadalajara.
Expiatorium Temple
Construction of neo-Gothic style was the first in having as
regular to the Sacred Sacramento, creation who pay homage to the
Sacred Sacrament. In its front is observed its enormous quarry
façade, adorned in the left side by a tower. Adorning this
building is a clock made in Germany, that in 1969 it was given
by don Pablo Horn, a beauty of four masks illuminated at night,
that have a carillon of 25 bells that plays a great number of
musical works daily at 9, 12 and 18 o’clock. Most of the
construction is carried out in stone carved without iron or
concrete infrastructure.
San Francisco de Asis’s Temple
Baroque building built in the second half of the XVI century, in
its inferior is observed the watched over door, on the one hand,
for the statue of San Buenaventura and in the other one, for the
San Antonio's statue. It has a central calm garden, and during a
lot of time it was important center of the Convent of San
Francisco of Guadalajara.
Santa Monica’s Temple
Baroque construction requested by the Jesuits, finished in 1733
and founded by the father Feliciano Pimentel. As the San Felipe
Neri’s Temple, this is one of the maximum constructions of the
colonial period in Guadalajara.
De la Merced Temple
The construction of this building was a work of Brother Miguel
Telmo and Brother Miguel of Alburquerque in 1629. In its facade
is observed the sculpture of Mercedes' Virgin, watched over to
the sides by Santa María de Cervelló and devout Mariana’s Jesus.
In the interior of the nave there are large squares that
illustrate passages of the appearances and miracles of the
Virgin of Merced.
San Agustín’s Temple
Before being a convent, this temple has a Baroque facade, and a
neo-plateresque altar in which are two sculptures, one of San
Agustín and another of his mother, Santa Monica. The convent as
such disappeared in the last century and only remain the annex
to the church, that at the moment houses the School of Music of
the University of Guadalajara.
Nuestra Señora del Carmen’s Temple
This church was founded between 1687 and 1690, and later on
redone in 1830, although in their exterior are conserved remains
of the previous construction, as the Shield of the Order of the
Carmelite. In its interior there is an image of Carmen's Virgin.
This temple had a convent, and the biggest altar was carried out
in quarry tops enhanced in gold. At the moment its neighbor, the
Carmen's Former Convent is one of the most important cultural
centers in Guadalajara.
TLAQUEPAQUE
Traditional very picturesque place, Tlaquepaque is "A town with
magic" and of handmade enormous offer. In its multiple stores
you can acquire fine and original crafts of traditional ceramic
blown and stage glass, petatillo and wooden furniture carved by
hand. It is recommended visit the “El Refugio” Cultural Center,
the Pantaleón Pandero Museum, the Soledad Sanctuary, and to
enjoy the flavor of the tipical jalisciense cuisine, surrounded
by de Mariachi music in the traditional “El Parian”.
Interest Points Tlaquepaque:
Town Hall
House of the town that was headquarters of politics's police
station for many years, in 1950 adjust its design to the rest of
the portals, and was until 1977 when the shield of Tlaquepaque
was placed in the facade. This construction has three plants
under an outline of columns, and in the cube of the stairway is
observed a mural in which you can see the fire as an element of
origin of the potter vocation.
The San Pedro’s Parish This parish remembers, because of his
Byzantine style, that the construction ended in 1813, a work
carried out by the Franciscans. In spite of the sobriety of its
style the first view of the temple reminds us the fineness of
the Baroque style
Historical House
In this colonial style building, the General Don Pedro Celestino
Negrete, signed the adhesion to the Iguala Plan for the
Consummation of the Mexico Independence, in June 13 of 1821, in
company of other historical characters. At the moment this
building remains closed by remodeling.
The Hidalgo Garden is a meeting place and, to the center,
surrounded of trees of great size, the dome of the kiosk stands
out. In a side the vigilant figure of Hidalgo observes the
visitors, inviting them to know the trail that recognizes the
most distinguished artisans in Tlaquepaque.
The handmade creation of Tlaquepaque has been worthy, several
times, of the National Prize of Ceramic; does you want to know
why? Visit the pieces rewarded in the Museum Pantaleón Pandero
of the National Prize of the Ceramic, a unique space in their
type in which are shown the forms of plastic expression of the
potters.
The Parián
build around 1879, it is forced Tlaquepare reference of
entertainment and folklor. In its interior are restaurants with
diverse gastronomic offers of dishes and typical drinks, amid an
atmosphere livened up with the music of the mariachi.
Museo Virtual
Inside the "Flavio Romero de Velazco" Municipal Library is
located this museum, with a capacity for 24 people that
simultaneously can carry out guided visits, to observe video
conferences, multimedia projections, use the service of
Internet, the printing laser service and it has consultant ship
for the use of the computers.
A beautiful large house built in the XVII century and that
belonged to the famous farmer Francisco Velarde, is at the
moment the home of the Regional Museum of Ceramic, a place in
which the beautiful pieces of artisans of the whole country
cohabit. The museum is conformed by 8 wide rooms dedicated to
the huichol art, the clay and petatillo figures, as well as and
other creation forms.
The Bazaar of Mexican Art, located in the center area of
Tlaquepaque, is the place to find the object of ideal
decoration. Wood, clay, blown glass, glass and bronze meet in
this place, to be part of the ornamental perfect piece.
The gallery Antigua of Mexico has the best collection in
colonial furniture of Tlaquepaque, although it is also center of
contemporary unique pieces and of exceptional original paintings
of Mexican artists.
Sergio Bustamante Gallery
This important Gallery was inaugurated in 1975, creating crafts
of personal techniques, achieving products of great quality. At
the moment is considered as one of the tourist most important
centers and its designs are sold in stores as Harrods in London
and Bloomingdales in New York.
Agustín Parra Gallery
This gallery was inaugurated by the painter, sculptor, designer
and furniturer Agustín Parra in 1985. His work is of great fame
and it has achieved a great quantity of recognitions, in 1999 he
elaborated the Second Reliquary that houses the relics of the 27
Mexican martyrs, and so much in 1999 as in 2002 it was invited
to carry out the decoration and furniture for the fourth and
fifth visits of Its Sanctity John Paul II, to Mexico. In the
gallery furniture of Baroque style can be obtained |
