visit to San Pedro Cholula, Puebla

SAN PEDRO CHOLULA:

Cholula comes from the origin of the roots náhuatl: "chololoa", which means " to hurl the water down ". The site that nowadays occupies Cholula's city shows indications of occupation humanizes at least from the Preclassic Indo-American way.

Cholula was Mesoamérica's important ceremonial center, being kept up to the great slaughter cholulteca also it was the place of priests' initiation and personalities of diverse cultures.

On February 13, 1895 by Decree of XIII the Constitutional Congress of the State and in honor of the Argentine president Bernardino Rivadavia,tribute was paid to his memory, assigning its name to the then District with head in San Pedro Cholula. According to the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics, the name of the head of the municipality of San Pedro Cholula is Cholula de Rivadavia.
the Church of Our Lady of Remedios, built on top of the Great Pyramid of Cholula

San Pedro Cholula today has 37 churches and somewhat surprising for a city of its size.
In this magical town the two great symbols of both cultures coexist a few meters: the Great Pyramid and the Franciscan Ex-convent of San Gabriel, one of the oldest monasteries of America, the vast Place de la Concorde is the center of San Pedro .

  Here the People party dresses, wearing masks and colorful costumes to celebrate their Carnival.

  Nearby, in the Pyramid, Quetzalcoatl wakes spring.

the recomendations:

Enter the Great Pyramid by its system of tunnels. Awesome.

visit the former convent of San Gabriel in the portals of the Place de la Concorde.

Ritual relive the excitement of Quetzalcoatl, to hear the symphony of idle talk, or being part of the great celebration of Carnival

eat the typical food in the market with exquisite cholulteca season.

The relevance of Cholula in the international context is unquestionable, derivative of its archaeological remains, especially Tlachihualtepel (Cerro made of earth)

The municipality of San Pedro Cholula is located in the central part - west of the state of Puebla with an altitude between 2,400 and 2,080 meters above sea level, its extreme geographical coordinates are 19 ° 01 '- 19 ° 07' latitude north and 98 ° 16 '- 98 ° 24' west longitude. It has an area of 51.03 square kilometers.

The municipality borders to the north with the municipality of Juan C. Bonilla and the municipality of Coronango, the northeast with the municipality of Cuautlancingo, east to the town of Puebla, south with the municipality of San Andres Cholula, southwest with the municipality St. Jerome Tecuanipan and west with the municipality of Calpan and the municipality of Huejotzingo.