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PUEBLA

Puebla, city founded in 1532, located at 2.162 meters of altitude, in an admirable area, counts now a little more than one million inhabitants and, is the fourth city of the country.
The center of the city consists of houses patricians of the colonial time whose certain frontages are decorated, on all the height, of multicoloured earthenware. These earthenware made the reputation of Puebla in the whole world. If Puebla does not have 400 churches, there exists sufficient about it so that one calls “Rome of Americas”.

Tourist attractions.
- Plazuela of los Sapos, here settled the antique dealers there is a score of years, and the evening, the many bars, coffees and restaurants make there reign a family atmosphere and relaxed.
- The immense cathedral, the second in size after that of Mexico City City, with its frontage baroque, its sculptures out of wood and its neo-classic hotel.
- The most beautiful church of Puebla: Santo Domingo with its Vault of the Rosary. The baroque became exuberant there. There are not a square meter without ornament, plants, effigies of saints, angels, musicians, apostles, who are of all the colors.
- Del Alfenique Put, literally: the house of Tom Thumb, avoided construction of red earthenware white blue and ornaments baroques, it shelters the regional museum.

In the surroundings of Puebla:
The landscape in the north of Puebla has a particular charm. Old roads, broadsides of old eucalyptus, and small towns and villages where one finds many works of art colonial.
The landscape in the south of Puebla is strange, with its stripped hills, marked by the erosion of the wind and water. The only plant which succeeds in pushing in this environment is a long made cactus of a single trunk, million its cacti recover the hills.
- The archeological site of Cacaxtla extends its platforms and its structures on more than one kilometer and half. The site was inhabited of 1700 front J. - C. until approximately 850 apr. J. - C. excavations carried out since the beginning of the Seventies made it possible to detect well preserved and very realistic frescos (600 to 800 after J. - C.)

 
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