Travel Guide to Guadalajara, Mexico

Guadalajara is a city located in Mexico, on the south-west of Mexican plateau. The city is an administrative center of Jalisco state. This name was got from the name of a town in Spain. The name can be translated as “the river flowing between mountains”. Guadalajara is often called a diamond of west and a city of roses. The population of the city estimates 1.646 million, making Guadalajara the second largest city of Mexico. The city was founded by the Spanish in 1513.

This is an economic center of west and north-west of Mexico. In Guadalajara are well-developed food, shoe, beer, chemical, and textile industries. Also here are created modern machine building and fertilizer creation factories. The city is a large transport junction as here cross important railway and auto routes. There are also a products pipe line and a gas pipeline here.

Tourists will definitely remember Guadalajara by its buildings referred to the colonial period of XVI-XVIII centuries. The most interesting may become churches built in baroque style. The most famous of them are Santa Monica Church, San Francisco Church, arena for charreada Lienzo Charro, and museum of the state.

Guadalajara is also a home place for birth of mariachi music and a dance with hats. Here people started to drink tequila, wear sombrero and attend Mexican rodeo for the first time. The city is attractive for tourists because here you will find the same amazing entertainments that in Mexico – a lively culture, picture galleries and museums, amazing historical buildings, comfortable hotels with great service, delicious cuisine, and unforgettable night life. However, only in Guadalajara you can get all these without excessive noise that is so frequent in large urban cities.