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.)