Travelling in Mexico

It is a pleasure to join our 30th Triennial Conference IFUW in Mexico City from the 5th to 9th of August in 2010. In our country, you will have the opportunity to experience the best of the history, the culture and the entertainment that we are preparing for you to enjoy.

First at all, we want to make you feel like home, so there you have the options and then, you will be able choose what is the best for you, for example: The travel agency in the hotel will arrange some tour to visit cultural attractions around Mexico City, like museums and metropolitan view in the turibus.

There you find examples of beautiful cities that you could visit to complement your travel in Mexico; all of them are rich in arts, and popular culture, like archaeology places, colonial buildings and Modern and Contemporary arts museums. Also you will be able to select the places that you want to visit, we call this options tours on demand.

Let me show you some of the cities that we selected for the occasion:

Mexico City is the heart of Mexico, located in its center, and represents the largest concentration of economic, political, cultural and religious activity in the nation.

The city has around 160 museums, over 100 art galleries, and some 30 concert halls, all of which maintain a constant cultural activity during the whole year. There are several restored haciendas that are now restaurants.

Mexico City is one of the most important cultural centers in the world, boasting more museums than any other city. It also comes first in the number of theaters in the world. Having been the capital of a vast pre-Hispanic empire, the richest viceroyalty within the Spanish Empire, and capital of the Mexican federation, Mexico City has a rich history of artistic expressions. Since the Mesoamerican pre-Classical period the inhabitants of the settlements around Lake Texcoco produced many works of arts, some of which are today displayed at the world-renown National Museum of Anthropology and the Templo Mayor Museum. Also there are recreations places like parks, gardens for example Chapultepec or Xochimilco. Maybe you could learn to dance a typical Danzon.

The meeting is going to be at a luxury hotel Meliá located in one of the most important avenue in downtown. The hotel has the best in amenities and comfort.

When you finish to attendance the conference you could take a trip outside the city. I want to show you some of the beautiful views of Colonial cities like Puebla, Oaxaca, Queretaro and Guanajuato, where you could find some of the greatest examples of the richness Barroco. You would relax enjoying the quietness and nature environment, and delicious food and appetizer or typical desserts.

If you are more adventurous and want to discover the marvelous prehispanic cities you could visit Teotihuacan, near to Mexico City, with big pyramids and murals painted to represent divine meanings like Venus or the greatest mural named Tlalocan. But if you want to go a little far away please don’t miss one of the wonders of the world Chichen itza, you will find the Maya´s knowledge of astrology. Most of the prehispanic places have the ball game square, to remind us the ritual and the costumes of ancient cultures.

Chichen Itza was a major regional focal point in the northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic through the Terminal Classic and into the early portion of the Early Postclassic period. The site exhibits a multitude of architectural styles, from what is called “Mexicanized” and reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico to the Puuc style found among the Puuc Maya of the northern lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion, is a wonder of the world


Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Columbian Americas. Apart from the pyramidal structures, Teotihuacan is also known for its large residential complexes, the so-called "Avenue of the Dead", and numerous colorful, well-preserved murals.

We will continue with more cities next time.....