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    A free Puebloteca guide Morelos's Pueblos Mágicos

    Free Morelos travel guide

    All 4 of Morelos's Pueblos Mágicos on one printable page. Free when you sign up for our weekly email.

    • All 4 Pueblos Mágicos, with a photo and what makes each special
    • A map of Morelos with each one on it
    • Road trips that join the pueblos close together
    • The best months to go
    • How far each is from the nearest city
    • The sights not to miss
    • The fiestas worth planning around
    • The fiestas month by month
    • Where to stay in each
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    The 4 Pueblos Mágicos in this guide

    Most visited first. The full guide adds the sights not to miss, the fiestas, how far each is by car, and a layout made to print.

    Tlaltizapán4Xochitepec3Tlayacapan2Tepoztlán1
    1. 1 Tepoztlán's cliffs rising behind a white colonial church, Morelos

      Tepoztlán

      Tepoztlán lies beneath dramatic cliffs an hour or so from Mexico City. A steep hike leads to the small Tepozteco pyramid above town, and weekends bring a busy market, a 16th-century convent, and a reputation as a spiritual retreat.

      When to go: Jan, Feb, Mar, Dec

    2. 2 Fortress-like facade of the San Juan Bautista convent, Tlayacapan, Morelos

      Tlayacapan

      Tlayacapan is a farming town in northeastern Morelos with stone-paved streets, red tile roofs, old mansions and stone bridges over its many ravines. The huge Augustinian monastery of San Juan Bautista, a World Heritage site with 16th-century frescoes and a museum, rises above everything else, and chapels dot the neighborhoods. The town is known as the birthplace of the Chinelos dance, for its celebrated Banda de Tlayacapan and for its clay pottery.

      When to go: Jan, Feb, Mar, Dec

    3. 3 Red dome of the San Juan Evangelista parish among trees and green hills, Xochitepec, Morelos

      Xochitepec

      Xochitepec is a warm town just south of Cuernavaca whose Nahuatl name means on the hill of flowers. Its center has the church of San Juan Evangelista, begun by Franciscans in the 16th century, and a weekend crafts market in the zócalo. Nearby are old sugar haciendas, the arched aqueduct of Santa Catarina in Chiconcuac, and spring-fed water parks such as Palo Bolero with its sulfur waters and grotto. The patron saint fiestas run from December 27 into January with chinelos and jaripeos.

      When to go: Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec

    4. 4 Red facade of Zapata's headquarters of the Liberating Army of the South, Tlaltizapán, Morelos

      Tlaltizapán

      Tlaltizapán de Zapata is a warm-country town in Morelos, set on a pale hill that explains its Nahuatl name, on white land. It is best known as the place where Emiliano Zapata kept his headquarters during the Revolution, and for the 16th-century Dominican monastery of San Miguel Arcángel. Around it are spring-fed swimming spots and river parks such as Las Estacas, Los Sauces and Santa Isabel, plus old sugar haciendas, one now a hotel.

      When to go: Jan, Oct, Nov, Dec

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