Toluca Valley

Pueblos Mágicos in Toluca Valley

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Places to visit in Toluca Valley 40

40 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Villages · 26 Towns · 12 Nature reserves · 2

Villages

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  Almoloya de Juárez · Village · Estado de México
  A small seat near Toluca with a sacred spring and pool, old haciendas and a horseback ribbon race at the September fiestas.
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  Amomolulco · Village · Estado de México
  A village in Lerma 2.4 km from Lerma's centre, with a listed former hacienda, Villa Carmela, and a Nahuatl name that speaks of water.
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  Chapultepec · Village · Estado de México
  A Toluca-valley municipal seat, not Mexico City's park: a lookout hill with a giant flag, a Franciscan parish and sawdust carpets at Easter.
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  Colinas del Sol · Village · Estado de México
  Housing development in Almoloya de Juárez that grew from 1,693 to 11,505 residents in fifteen years; no sights of its own, 2 km from Almoloya's centre.
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  Guadalupe Yancuictlalpan · Village · Estado de México
  Gualupita, the "land of the sarape": wooden looms, wool sweaters and coats, and a textile tianguis near Tianguistenco.
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  Isidro Fabela · Village · Estado de México
  Colonia of 1,790 people in Lerma near Toluca, named for governor Isidro Fabela; close to the Lerma station of the El Insurgente train.
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  Raíces · Village · Estado de México
  Mountain hamlet on the slopes of the Nevado de Toluca, above 3,500 m; the road to the volcano's turn-off goes through it.
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  Salazar · Village · Estado de México
  A forest hamlet at about 3,000 m beside the México–Toluca highway; it began as a rail stop and is now a weekend stop for food, horses and gotcha.
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  San Antonio Buenavista · Village · Estado de México
  Pueblo originario south of Toluca, almost at the foot of the Nevado, that marks Saint Anthony of Padua every 13 June with mañanitas, a band and flowers.
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  San Bartolomé Atlatlahuca · Village · Estado de México
  Tenango del Valle's bread village: the 24 August feast of San Bartolomé brings thousands of pilgrims and floats decked with pan de feria.
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  San Francisco Putla · Village · Estado de México
  A flower-growing village in the north of Tenango del Valle near the Nevado de Toluca: marigolds for Day of the Dead and the morning mist that named it.
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  San Francisco Xochicuautla · Village · Estado de México
  An Otomí community in Lerma at 2,789 m: October feast of San Francisco with arrieros dancers and a sacred forest contested by the Toluca-Naucalpan highway.
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  San Gaspar Tlahuelilpan · Village · Estado de México
  Metepec village named for the Magus Gaspar, with a church rebuilt after 1985 and a 10 km road race each January.
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  San Juan Tilapa · Village · Estado de México
  Old village south of Toluca, "black river" in Nahuatl, with a San Juan fiesta on 24 June and a muleteers' dance outside the church.
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  San Juan de las Huertas · Village · Estado de México
  Potato-growing village in Zinacantepec at 2,862 m, 14,230 people, with a San Juan fiesta on 24 June and a potato fair every October.
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  San Marcos Yachihuacaltepec · Village · Estado de México
  Toluca delegación below the Calixtlahuaca hill; three names, a legend of saints' images that kept returning to the church, and 6,250 people.
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  San Martín Toltepec · Village · Estado de México
  Toluca delegación north of the city, "on the hill of the reeds", with a catalogued stone chapel and about 2,700 residents for a decade now.
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  San Mateo Otzacatipan · Village · Estado de México
  Old lakeside village now merged into Toluca: once a charal-fishing community, today home to the airport and the Central de Abastos.
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  San Mateo Oxtotitlán · Village · Estado de México
  Large Toluca delegación, "next to the caves"; San Mateo fiesta with mojigangas and a Passion play staged up a real hill every Holy Week.
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  San Miguel Almaya · Village · Estado de México
  Indigenous community on the slopes of Cerro Quilotzin, with a lagoon, a 17th-century church and San Miguel fiestas with fireworks castles.
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  San Miguel Ameyalco · Village · Estado de México
  Lerma village with an 18th-century parish, 462 steps up to Cristo Rey and a San Miguel fiesta of fireworks towers and oyamel log poles.
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  San Pedro Tultepec · Village · Estado de México
  A carpenters' town in Lerma: a street of furniture shops, wood workshops and an El Insurgente train station at its entrance.
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  Santa Ana Tlapaltitlán · Village · Estado de México
  Old farming village now wrapped into Toluca: palm baskets, San Isidro in May and quintonil tamales at the Santa Ana feast in July.
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  Santa María Jajalpa · Village · Estado de México
  Tenango del Valle village where, each September, growers hurl vegetables from trucks to the crowd at the Virgen de la Natividad fiesta.
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  Santa María la Asunción · Village · Estado de México
  Locality of 7,681 people in San Mateo Atenco, in the Toluca Valley, 8 km from Metepec; its double feast falls on New Year's Day and in August.
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  Temoaya · Village · Estado de México
  An Otomí municipal seat north of Toluca: a shrine with a huge equestrian Saint James, a Sunday market with taco de plaza, and hand-knotted rugs.

Towns

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  Almoloya del Río · Town · Estado de México
  A clothing-and-mariachi town beside the Lerma marshes, with the Señor de Burgos parish church and a French clock from 1926.
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  Cacalomacán · Town · Estado de México
  Old village south of Toluca at the foot of the Nevado: 18th-century churches, hacienda land turned ejido, and a community-run ecological park on the volcano.
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  Joquicingo · Town · Estado de México
  Seat of a small municipality in the south of the Toluca valley: Asunción feasts, arrieros and chinelo dances, and pyramids at Techuchulco.
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  Ocoyoacac · Town · Estado de México
  A town between Toluca and La Marquesa: San Martín Obispo parish, tamales de ollita, a Wednesday market and a patron-saint feast on 11 November.
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  San Antonio la Isla · Town · Estado de México
  Municipal seat in the south of the Toluca valley, known for hand-made wooden toys, a baroque parish church and a museum with a local codex.
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  San Felipe Tlalmimilolpan · Town · Estado de México
  Pueblo originario south of Toluca with cobbled streets, cambaya looms, the Paseo de Los Locos and fairs of pulque, pozole and harvest.
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  San Jerónimo Acazulco · Town · Estado de México
  An Otomí town in Ocoyoacac whose communal land takes in much of La Marquesa's valleys; a mole fair in July and a New Year fiesta.
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  San Mateo Atenco · Town · Estado de México
  Shoemaking town in the Toluca valley: leather footwear shops on Av. Juárez, a lake-cultures museum and the shoemakers' feast on 25 October.
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  San Mateo Mexicaltzingo · Town · Estado de México
  Municipal seat next to Metepec, with its San Mateo parish church, a small railway museum and a name for chicharrón.
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  Santa Cruz Atizapán · Town · Estado de México
  Seat of Atizapán municipality at the source of the Lerma river: the 3 May Santa Cruz feast, a neoclassical church and the Tepozoco archaeological site.
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  Tenango de Arista · Town · Estado de México
  The seat of Tenango del Valle, below the Teotenango hilltop ruins: Thursday and Sunday markets, a Porfirian theatre, barbacoa and pulque bread.
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  Xonacatlán de Vicencio · Town · Estado de México
  Municipal seat in the Toluca Valley, known as the Plush City for its workshops and for Xonita, the Guinness-record giant bear.

Nature reserves

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  Bosque de Agua · Nature reserve · Estado de México
  The forest corridor between Mexico City, Toluca and Cuernavaca that feeds all three cities' aquifers; visit it at Zempoala, La Marquesa or Ajusco.
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  Parque Estatal Sierra Morelos · Nature reserve · Estado de México
  1,255 hectares of wooded hills and lakes on Toluca's northern edge: trails of up to 9 km, picnic shelters and an axolotl house under repair.

Top tours in Toluca Valley

San Jerónimo Acazulco Teotihuacan pyramids morning or afternoon without tourist traps ★ 4.9 (10,269) 5 h 30 min From US$59

San Jerónimo Acazulco Xochimilco, Coyoacan and Frida Kahlo with Optional Lunch ★ 4.5 (8,395) 9 h From US$40

San Jerónimo Acazulco Balloon flight + Breakfast in cave + Pyramids + Pick up CDMX. ★ 4.9 (8,170) 2–8 h From US$149

San Jerónimo Acazulco Balloon flight + pick up in CDMX + Breakfast in Cave + Pyramids ★ 4.9 (7,685) 4–7 h From US$157

San Jerónimo Acazulco Teotihuacan Hot Air Balloon Flight from Mexico City / Volare ★ 4.8 (4,447) 3–9 h From US$144

Chapultepec Early Access Chapultepec Castle & Anthropology Museum ★ 4.5 (1,506) 5 h From US$83

Chapultepec 5 Hour Tour through Chapultepec, Anthropology Museum and Castle ★ 4.9 (341) 5 h From US$57

Chapultepec PRIVATE Tour Chapultepec Castle | Skip-the-Line Tickets Included ★ 4.9 (165) 2–3 h From US$68

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