Guadalajara Culture and Sights

Over its lifetime, the building has been a home for the mentally disabled and has housed soldiers or prisoners. Manuel Tolsá built this orphanage in the neo-classical style in the 19th century. The stor...

An impressive theatre building! This neo-classical theatre opened at the end of the 19th century. Frescoes in the theatre dome show impressive scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy by Gerardo Suárez.

One of the many notable churches here. It was built in the second half of the 17th century. Its Baroque porch façade shows rich and finely-worked ornamentation (grapes, ears of maize, angels, double eag...

The building of 1643 may be of numerous historical events boast. This has helped the Mexican president Benito Juárez, in front of the French forces here to escape. In the staircase of the baroque pala...

The Cathedral with its two towers is the undisputed city symbol. The cathedral was built between 1558 and 1616 and was then subject to many reconstructions. The structure is Baroque in nature with a str...

Originally, the building served as the city’s first convent. A wonderful mural by Guillermo Chávez in the stairwell of this building shows Benito Juárez, among other figures.

address:Avenida del Ejército, Guadalajara 19004

address:Guadalajara 19005

This museum covers a wide range of topics. Guadalajara regional museum (Museo Regional de Guadalajara) is housed in the former Jesuit seminary (San José Liceo 60), a two-storey, late Baroque building on...