The City of Cholula was called the city of Quetzalcoatl, who was the most famous prehispanic god in Mexico, and the most sacred city in the Aztec Empire.

Cholula is the mexican city where Hernan Cortes in 1519, on his way to the aztec capital city, stopped by and visited the city, and declared Cholula the most beatiful city outside Spain because the splendor of its outstanding temples and the luxury at its palaces as well the magnificent view of the nearby volcanoes and flower fields. Cholula was the place where Cortes was about to die but saved his life thanks to Malinche, his translator and lover, who informed Cortes about an aztec conspiracy against his life inside the city walls.

Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who was a Cortes' soldier, wrote a famous book describing all events happeneded in the city and how much beauty spaniards found in its market and local craftsmanship.

Santa Maria Tonanzintla church represents the most outstanding example of native baroque in Mexico. Church walls and ceiling recreates a native heaven in order to explain to local people as well to the visitors what is the local catholic faith by using a native code. Faces of children, angels, saints, flowers and fruits get together in unusual play of colors and expressions. There is not another plastic artistic expression like this in all Mexico.

Los Remedios Church was built on top of the Piramyd of Cholula and houses the main religious devotion in Cholula that is to honor Our Lady in the name of Remedios. The church was built and the end of the 16th century but the original temple suffered a natural disaster therefore had to be rebuilt at the late 1860's. Every first week of September there is a big celebration that involves processions coming from all the Cholula region.