Private Tour to Cholula and Puebla

4.8
(63 reviews)
Mexico City, Mexico

7 to 8 hours (approximately)
Pickup offered
Offered in: English and 1 more

Enjoy a private full-day tour with pickup and drop-off at your Mexico City hotel. Travel comfortably to the Cholula Archaeological Zone, home to the Great Pyramid, one of the largest in the world and a remarkable example of the cultural fusion between pre-Hispanic and colonial traditions. Continue to Santa María Tonantzintla, famous for its richly decorated indigenous Baroque interior.

In the historic center of Puebla, a UNESCO World Heritage City, visit the majestic Puebla Cathedral, the dazzling Chapel of the Rosary, and the historic Palafoxiana Library, founded in 1646 and recognized as the first public library in the Americas.

An unforgettable journey through archaeology, art, and colonial heritage.

What's Included

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Private tour
Bottled water
Lunch
Driver/guide
Drinks in Restaurant
Gratuities

Meeting and pickup

Pickup points
You can choose a pickup location at checkout (multiple pickup locations are available).
Pickup details:

We have coverage in all the places of the city of Mexico, Hotels, Airbnb.

Itinerary

Duration: 7 to 8 hours (approximately)
  • 1
    Great Pyramid of Cholula

    The Archaeological Zone of Cholula has three areas enabled for its public visit, firstly the Site Museum of the Archaeological Zone of Cholula with its three permanent exhibition halls; secondly, the route inside the tunnel inside the Great Pyramid that consists of approximately 280 meters of route in the same plane, artificially illuminated and without risks that the visitor may get lost, and finally the so-called open area of the Archaeological Zone of Cholula constituted by the ceremonial patios of the south and the west of the Great Pyramid of Cholula.

    1 hour Admission ticket included
  • 2
    Templo de Santa Maria Tonantzintla

    The church of Santa María Tonantzintla was declared a historical monument on November 11, 1933; It has four constructive stages that go from s. XVII to XX. It has a simple façade that seems not to announce the profusion of elements that are inside, presenting sculptures of clear indigenous manufacture in three niches at the front, and four in the tower, representing the evangelists carrying the message of God to the four directions.

    30 minutes Admission ticket included
  • 3
    Puebla Cathedra

    The Cathedral Basilica of Puebla, as it is known to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception according to its Marian advocation, is the episcopal seat of the Archdiocese of Puebla. It is one of the most important buildings of the historic center declared a World Heritage Site. It has the prerogative of being the first sumptuous temple that under good designs was made in America, consecrated in 1649 it went ahead to the Metropolitan of Mexico that was dedicated in 1653.

    30 minutes Admission ticket included
  • 4
    Capilla del Rosario, Templo de Santo Domingo

    The chapel of the Virgen del Rosario is the chapel attached to the Temple of Santo Domingo in the city of Puebla, Mexico. Work of the seventeenth century, the peak of the baroque novohispano, was described at the time as the House of Gold, as well as the eighth wonder of the world by Fray Diego de Gorozpe, in a form of 1690.

    30 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 5
    Biblioteca Palafoxiana

    The creation of this library was approved by royal decree in December 1647 and reconfirmed by Pope Innocent X in 1648. For more than 360 years, the Palafoxiana Library, has been based in the Old College of San Juan within the Seminary founded by Palafox and Mendoza. Although the construction of the vault, as it is in our days was made in 1773, by Bishop Francisco Fabián y Fuero, who ordered the first two floors of the bookshelf to be erected, which is a fine work of the New Spain cabinetmakers They worked harmoniously the woods of ayacahuite, polocote and cedar. From this period dates the delicate altarpiece where the effigy of the Madonna of Trapani is located, oil that is presumed to be made taking as a model the sculpture that Nino Pisano made of the Virgin in the 14th century. Later, in the nineteenth century, a third level was placed because the number of volumes that were in the library had increased, 4 in fact the library has 45 058 old books.

    30 minutes Admission ticket included

Additional info

  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Supplied by Mexico Tour Freelance

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