Morelia and around

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Places to visit in Morelia and around 14

14 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Landmarks and museums · 11 Cities · 1 Nature reserves · 1 Villages · 1

Landmarks and museums

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  Acueducto de Morelia · Landmark · Michoacán
  Morelia's 253-arch stone aqueduct, rebuilt in the 1780s to give work during a famine, runs about 1.7 km along Avenida Acueducto and is lit up at night.
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  Calzada Fray Antonio de San Miguel and Fuente de las Tarascas · Landmark · Michoacán
  A stone-paved walkway of 1732 under ash trees, running about 500 m from the famous Fuente de las Tarascas to the Santuario de Guadalupe.
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  Catedral de Morelia · Landmark · Michoacán
  Pink-stone baroque cathedral built 1660-1744, with twin towers of about 67 m, a 4,600-pipe organ and a free light-and-fireworks show every Saturday night.
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  Conservatorio de las Rosas and Templo de Santa Rosa · Landmark · Michoacán
  A 1590s convent, girls' school from 1743 and now a music conservatory, home of the Niños Cantores de Morelia, beside a church with gilded altarpieces.
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  Museo Casa Natal de Morelos · Landmark · Michoacán
  The house where José María Morelos was born in 1765, rebuilt in 1888 and a museum since 1965, with two gardens and a library of over 23,000 books.
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  Museo Regional Michoacano · Landmark · Michoacán
  INAH's oldest museum, founded in 1886, in an 18th-century mansion off the Plaza de Armas, with 12 rooms of Michoacán history and a 1935 mural by Philip Guston.
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  Museo del Dulce (Dulces Morelianos de la Calle Real) · Landmark · Michoacán
  A sweet shop founded in 1840 on Morelia's old Calle Real, with a small museum of Michoacán candy-making, costumed staff and tastings of fresh ate.
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  Museo y Archivo Histórico Casa de Morelos · Landmark · Michoacán
  The house José María Morelos bought in 1801, now an INAH museum on his life and the War of Independence, with an archive of some two million documents.
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  Palacio Clavijero and Mercado de Dulces y Artesanías · Landmark · Michoacán
  The 18th-century Jesuit college where Valladolid was renamed Morelia, now a free art centre, with the city's sweet and craft market along one side.
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  Palacio de Gobierno de Michoacán · Landmark · Michoacán
  The 1760s seminary where Morelos studied, seat of Michoacán's government since 1867, facing the cathedral and filled with Alfredo Zalce's murals; free entry.
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  Santuario de Guadalupe (San Diego) · Landmark · Michoacán
  A plain baroque church of 1708-1716 whose interior was covered in 1915 with painted clay-and-plaster flowers in pink, red and gold by Joaquín Orta.

Cities

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  Morelia · City · Michoacán
  Michoacán's pink-stone capital, a UNESCO World Heritage city since 1991, with a vast baroque cathedral, an 18th-century aqueduct and a big film festival.

Nature reserves

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  Bosque Cuauhtémoc · Nature reserve · Michoacán
  A tree-filled 19th-century promenade beside the aqueduct, with the Alfredo Zalce contemporary art museum and a small natural history museum, both free.

Villages

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  Capula · Village · Michoacán
  An adobe pottery village 20 minutes from Morelia where the clay catrina was born in the 1970s; its Feria de la Catrina runs into early November.

Top tours in Morelia and around

Acueducto de Morelia Morelia City Tour ★ 4.9 (115) 3 h From US$33

Acueducto de Morelia Monarch Butterfly Tour (Departing from Morelia) ★ 5.0 (63) 9–10 h From US$200

Acueducto de Morelia Pátzcuaro Tour From Morelia ★ 5.0 (43) 8 h From US$113

Acueducto de Morelia Patzcuaro & Janitzio Private Tour ★ 5.0 (33) 8 h From US$83

Acueducto de Morelia Monarch Butterfly Private Tour (Morelia) ★ 5.0 (32) 8 h From US$371

Morelia Tour: Getting to know Morelia with friends ★ 5.0 (24) 3–3.3 h From US$30

Capula Night of the Animas Day of the Dead Cultural Experience 12 h From US$90

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