Zacatecas Mexico (my hometown)

[HabLeUrG]

Well i dunno if you guys know my homwtown (where I live) but I was born in Durango...

Some history, Zacatecas was found in 1546 by spain and most of the building are colonial from the XVIII century, in 1992 was declared a World Heritage Place by UNESCO, hope you enjoy the pictures 

Zacatecas Cathedral: (its a Catholic church and one of the most beautiful monument of the city


Calderon's Theater


Inside of the Theater



A Gothic Church (Iglesia de Fátima)

inside of the church




Santo Domingo Church and Pedro Coronel Museum


Inside of the museum


inside of the church


Bufa Mountian (at the top with a observatories, a museum, church, shops, etc)



Going down to the downtown of Zacatecas


The Main Street:






Faroles Fountain:


Zacatecas's Aqueduct


A tipical "callejón" (a tiny colonial street)


Some ruins of a church from the Mexican Revolution 100 years ago


A 5 class hotel in downtown (this was a poor neighbor, today stands as a hotel)


The congress of the state and a museum


Guadalupe Church:


South side of the Market Gonzales Ortega


Francisco Goitia Museum (the mansion)


Another tipical street




The tramway from Grillo Mountain to Bufa (open to the public)




This is the best hotel in the city this is a bullring-hotel style unique in the world, its a 5 class hotel




Square of arms plaza


Another church in ruins


Again Bufa Mountain


Edén Mine (open to the public as a museum)


A discotheque inside of the mine


Chicomostoc (an Aztecs ruins over the city including a whole covered mountain of aztecs constructions)


Encantada Lake:


Guadalupe Museum (lots of colonial paints)




Well theres alot for to do in my hometown, also this week is the international festival, we have people from everywhere in the world  im lucky to live here in an excellent place to live, all the year the temperature is like 10º to 15º celcius about 60 farenheits...

[Pat]

Hab those are some wonderful architectural pictures there and very good too...  i agree with you that church
is very awsome looking - pat

[HabLeUrG]

Hab those are some wonderful architectural pictures there and very good too...  i agree with you that church
is very awsome looking - pat

thanks 

[Zaphod]

awesome!

The aqueduct is interesting, where does it lead? Ive never heard of aqueducts being outside of europe, so that is really fascinating and unexpected. The cable car is cool too, kind of reminds me of the one in El Paso

Anyways, you know that Vin Diesel movie, XXX(the title, not the rating lol). That disco in the old mine looks like a scene from that movie, where they are in this weird club and meet the bad guy.

[Strechnitz]

Hello Heblem,

These are wonderful pictures of a wonderful town. I have been to Zacatecas when my parents toured the country. I was seven at the time and remember little of that trip in particular. I hope to return next year for a holiday (20 years later)

There are so many wonderful pictures of Zacatecas landmarks. do you have plans to bat any of them?

Strechnitz.