Local Attraction

Sightseeing during and after the symposium

As a participant of the symposium you see

• The University Campus, which is a UNESCO Heritage due to its interesting buildings with more than 21 murals painted by Mexican artistics as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Juan O'Gormann, Carlos Merida and others.

• The Palacio de Bellas Artes where the folkloric ballet has performed  more than 15,000 presentations which is considered as the best dance show of Mexico.

• The oldest Pyramid in the Mexico Valley called Cuicuilco closed to the University Campus and Radisson Hotel.

During the symposium you can visit

• The historical center of Mexico City which is also a UNESCO Heritage due to its Templo Mayor – an open-air excavation of the old temples of Mexico and a museum with the original findings, and old interesting buildings and churches.

• The famous Anthropological Museum,

• The Museum Mural Diego Rivera in downtown, which exhibits his famous painting "Scene with dreaming people in the Alameda Central Park".

After the symposium it is recommended to use the symposium tours to see

• the temples at Teotihuacan
• the "swimming gardens" at Xochimilcos and
• the Villa de Guadalupe, the main cathedral of Mexico, all of which is reachable in one-day trips.

Sightseeing Tours

Pre and Post Symposium Tours:  Cultural Legacy of Mexico

To know the Mexican Culture two important places are recommended, its markets and churches. Thus, together with these places, the celebrations, even a small party, describe deeply our culture, a blend between Europe and America. Viajes Clasa Agency is offering one day tours, to have a small test of our prides. The service includes picking you up from your hotel and coming back.

A desk will be stay to assist you during the symposium. If you want in advance to get more information, contact Mr. Oscar Acosta viajesclasa@gmail.com with phone numbers 5684-3033, 5684-3069, 5677-7720 and 5677-9824, calling from Mexico City.

1. City tour

Visit the main square of Mexico City, where is located the Metropolitan Cathedral (the largest in America), the National Palace and the main government buildings, the Temple, visit one of the best craft shops in the city, the Palace of Fine Arts, Paseo de la Reforma, where we will see the main monuments, the residential area of Lomas de Chapultepec, some embassies and consulates, will eventually end up in the National Anthropology Museum (optional visit) $ 48.00 USD. viajesclasa@gmail.com

2. Pyramids of Teotihuacan and Basilica of Guadalupe

(Duration 8 hrs.) 08:45 hrs. First, visit the majestic Basilica of Guadalupe, (Empress of America), visiting the hill of Tepeyac, continuing then due at Teotihuacan, City of the Gods and admire the Pyramid of the Moon and the Sun, the Citadel and the impressive temple of Quetzalcoatl, omitting the wonderful museum, back to the hotel, make a brief stop at the handicraft market of the Citadel, one of the most traditional and varied city. $ 55.00 USD.  viajesclasa@gmail.com

3. Xochimilco, Bull Ring and University City

By visiting Xochimilco (city of flowers), enjoy the most colorful place in Mexico, accompanied by the lively Mexican music of mariachi, trova and redova, will make our journey through some of the major waterways in the area, enjoying the folklore and style very own. Hundreds of vendors in their trajineras decorated with multicolored paper will offer crafts, forming a mosaic very representative of this beautiful place, this tour is highly recommended for groups where you can spend an afternoon very different, the end of this visit the City University (UNAM ) and the Plaza de Toros Mexico, the largest in the world. $55.00 USD.  viajesclasa@gmail.com

4. Taxco and Cuernavaca

The Silver City will be for us today, a paradise where we will beat all our dreams made crafts, as we find anything that relates to silver and remind you that you do not find, we make it; Taxco de Alarcón is without doubt a national monument, with its magnificent cathedral of Santa Prisca, with its majestic altarpieces and fascinating architecture of the eighteenth century, back to Mexico City, optionally you can visit at no cost the city of Cuernavaca (the city of eternal spring). Duration 11 hrs. Approximately.

$ 85.00 USD. viajesclasa@gmail.com

5. Puebla, City of the Mole

To 90 min. In Mexico City, we find the beautiful city of Puebla de los angels, considered since 1987 as a cultural heritage site by UNESCO, Puebla, offers several tours that include us from its bohemian streets as the square of the toads to the majesty of the cathedral, or the impressive library with more than 43,000 Palafoxiana volumes in different languages, including the famous Nuremberg chronicles regarded as incunabula. Puebla itself offers different attractions for all tourists, we must not forget the craft and gastronomy in which Puebla is a very important place in Mexico. Continue to the archaeological zone of Cholula, entrance to the Pyramid and continue our journey to Santa Maria Tonantzintla, in time we will initiate our return to Mexico City. $ 85.00 USD. viajesclasa@gmail.com