Morelia, Michoacán: 14 Places to Visit, Map & Guide

Michoacán

14 places with their own page in the municipality of Morelia, in the state of Michoacán.

Map of Morelia

Places to visit in Morelia

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

Cities

Morelia · City
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.

Villages

Capula · Village
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.

Nature reserves

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

Landmarks and museums

Calzada Fray Antonio de San Miguel and Fuente de las Tarascas · Landmark
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.
Catedral de Morelia · Landmark
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.
Museo Regional Michoacano · Landmark
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.
Palacio Clavijero and Mercado de Dulces y Artesanías · Landmark
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.
Acueducto de Morelia · Landmark
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.
Conservatorio de las Rosas and Templo de Santa Rosa · Landmark
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.
Museo Casa Natal de Morelos · Landmark
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.
Museo del Dulce (Dulces Morelianos de la Calle Real) · Landmark
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.
Museo y Archivo Histórico Casa de Morelos · Landmark
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.
Palacio de Gobierno de Michoacán · Landmark
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.
Santuario de Guadalupe (San Diego) · Landmark
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.