Day trip’s from Mexico City: Puebla

Day trip’s from Mexico City: Puebla



Puebla
is one of Mexico’s most well-preserved architectural
gems, a candy-cane mixture of bright colonial edifices with over 70
churches condensed in its main historical centre. Set inside a long
manufacturing corridor which is dedicated mostly to housing
factories of Mexico’s booming auto industry, Puebla’s buildings are
infamous for their adorned azulejos façades (painted ceramic
tiles), which would look perfectly at home in Lisbon’s street
fronts. For a long time, Puebla was one of Mexico’s largest cities,
and indeed the main cathedral is to this day the tallest in the
country, a whole city block of imposing renaissance and baroque
architecture and hefty, opaque stone.

But Puebla also blends its tradition with modernity. This is
evident in its multi-million dollar renovation of the Museo
Amparo
, a private museum set across two 16th century
colonial buildings where exhibitions of contemporary art and
photography are sliced by sheets of glass and steel. The Biblioteca Palafoxiana just
down the road is the first public library in the Americas, carved
out of cedar and white pine and home to some of the rarest and
dustiest books in the New World. A few streets away lies the artist
quarter with open-door galleries and the Sapo antiques market.
Puebla is well worth the one-hour day trip from Mexico city.

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