Private Tour: Teotihuacan and Mexico City

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Stop At: Tlatelolco, Mexico City Mexico

We visit the Archaeological Zone of Tlatelolco within the city of Mexico, it was a city founded by the Tlatelolcas, a Mexica tribe that separated from the Tenochcas, founders of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Mexico-Tlatelolco was located on an island to the north of this city within Lake Texcoco. There was the most important tianguis in the region - and indeed in all of Mesoamerica - where all kinds of local merchandise and the most remote areas were sold.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Teotihuacan Pyramids, San Juan Teotihuacan 55800 Mexico

You will visit artisans in the area where they will give an explanation of maguey and obsidian, with a tasting of Mezcal and tequila.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Teotihuacan Pyramids, San Juan Teotihuacan 55800 Mexico

It will visit the archaeological zone of Teotihuacán, has been of interest for the societies after the decline of Teotihuacan culture in Mesoamerica. Its ruins have been explored since pre-Hispanic times, among others, by the Toltecs and the Mexicas. The discovery of Teotihuacan objects in the archaeological sites of Tula and the Templo Mayor de México-Tenochtitlan confirms this. In post-classical Nahua mythology, the city appears as the setting for fundamental myths such as the legend of the Suns of the Mexica.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Basilica de Santa Maria de Guadalupe, Plaza de las Americas 1 Col. Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico City 07050 Mexico

The Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe, officially called Insigne and National Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe, is a sanctuary of the Catholic Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary in its dedication of Guadalupe, located at the foot of the Cerro del Tepeyac, It is the enclosure Mariano most visited in the world, surpassed only by the Basilica of San Pedro. Although the figures quoted are not uniform, 2 annually about twenty million pilgrims visit the sanctuary, of which about nine million do so in the days close to December 12, day in which Santa María de Guadalupe is celebrated .3 4 5 Annually, the Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe has at least twice as many visitors as the most well-known Marian shrines, which makes it an outstanding social and cultural phenomenon.2

Duration: 1 hour