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Top choice in Zacatecas


Founded in 1906, this oft-crowded classic is filled with bohemians, musicians, drunks and poets. The art showcases some well-known local and international artists, including Pedro Coronel.


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1. Ex-Templo de San Agustín

0.07 MILES

The Ex-Templo de San Agustín was built for Augustinian monks in the 17th century. During the 19th-century anticlerical movement, the church became a…

2. Museo Manuel M. Ponce

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This small five-roomed museum is a touching tribute to the musician, Manuel M Ponce, a well-traveled, intellectual Mexican, whose best-known score…

3. Museo Zacatecano

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Zacatecas' former mint (Mexico's second-biggest in the 19th century) now houses the wonderful Museo Zacatecano. Spread over a number of rooms, this…

4. Museo Pedro Coronel

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The Museo Pedro Coronel is housed in a 17th-century former Jesuit college and is one of provincial Mexico's best art museums. Pedro Coronel (1923−85) was…

5. Jardín Juárez

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Juárez ends at a tiny but charming park of the same name. The Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas' administrative headquarters are housed in the…

6. Mercado González Ortega

0.16 MILES

This impressive 1880s iron-columned building used to hold Zacatecas' main market. In the 1980s the upper level was renovated into an upscale shopping…

7. Templo de Santo Domingo

0.16 MILES

With a bubbly stone facade, the tarnished pink Templo de Santo Domingo, in a plazuela of the same name, is in a baroque style, with fine gilded altars and…

8. Catedral

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Built between 1729 and 1752, the pink-stone cathedral is an ultimate expression of Mexican baroque. The stupendous main facade is a wall of detailed…