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If you are interested in a Carnival tour please contact Carlos Rivero  for details and pricing. // Si estas interesado en un tour de Carnaval por favor contactar a Carlos Rivero para detalles y precio.

  

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House of Cuetzalan CultureThe Cuetzalan "House of Culture" is a place where you find a short view of local folk art and highlights what you can find in the "Totonacapan" area. Sometimes you find some local handcrafts for sale.

  

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Artist's StudioWe can visit a local artist's studio where you'll find paintings for sale with a very colourful and folk style. Color and tradition meet together to be depicted in armony.

  

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Sunday Street MarketSunday Market is the most important day every week. Because local people and people from the sourronding villages at the montains meet in town to trade their products or corps by buying or exchanging. So the market takes the centric streets and a variety of products are in motion as flowers, regional, fruits, seeds,sweet bread, river shrimps, pork meat, beef meat, local handcrafts, sandals, sombreros, etc.

  

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Little Jugs CementaryThe Church of the Jugs takes the name from the unique decoration found at the church tower made of jugs of different sizes put on an unusual way. The gotic styled church is dedicated to the Our Lady of Guadalupe and is local in front of a local cementary that looks amazing with the flowers put at the graves. During all year long the colorful graves invites you to stop by there.

  

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San Francisco ChurchSan Francisco Church is the located in the center of town an dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi because the Sierra Norte of Puebla was mainly a franciscan mission during 300 years. It is beatiful to see during Week or Sunday Mass the local people attending the religious service in their white traditional clothes and to admire the way their express their Catholic faith. The "Fliers" performance take place right in front of the church.

  

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Cuetzalan Town View

Cuetzalan (Place of Quetzal birds). Only few places in Mexico could be as beatiful as this town located in the middle of the Sierra Norte in Puebla State. It is the "Paradise in the Mountains" because this location houses some Mexican People who resist to disappear as a Mexican Native Culture in the postmodern world. Local native groups as Nahua or Totonaco still wearing the traditional clothes, speaking the native language as well spanish and continue their Mexican Traditions. Their Mexican Art Handcrafts have singular and distintive taste. The Sierra Norte shows up as incredible subtopical landscape with a outstanding mountain chain, deep valleys, very extensive cave systems and clean waterfalls. Well it deserves a visit once in a lifetime.

Just some people really know that Cuetzalan is located in a cultural place named "Totonacapan" that is the motherland of the "fliers" perfomance. "The Fliers" performance is a religious ritual to honor de sun where four men fly upsidedown around a tall wooden pole just tied up in one leg or holding themselves using a rope around their waist.

  

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Yohualichan Archaeological SiteYohualichan is Totonaco - Toltec - Nahua Archaeological Site and means the "House of the Night". It was founded by Totonacos in about 400 A.D. According to the legend  the Yohualichan builders where also involved in the construction of Pyramids of the Sun and Moon in Teotihuacan or Tajin in Veracruz. All the structures (administrative and ceremonial assembly, passageways, plazas, housing) were built in niches in the same way as those of El Tajin.

Yohualichan temples served as places for worshipping both water and forest animals.Priests and warriors were the stewards of the city and its temples whereas the people devoted to themselves to farming, as cotton and corn, and hunting.

  

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