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A private full-day tour combining the Great Pyramid of Cholula with Atlixco's colonial landmarks.
A private, full-day tour to Atlixco, including the Great Pyramid of Cholula archaeological site, the colonial Ex Convento del Carmen, and the Church of La Merced.
This is confirmed as a full-day private tour with hotel pickup and private transportation. Real stops include the Great Pyramid of Cholula archaeological site, the Ex Convento del Carmen, and the Church of La Merced in Atlixco, a 17th-18th century Mercedarian church still recovering from 2017 earthquake damage.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup included in Puebla.
Real time at the largest pyramid by volume in the world, en route to Atlixco.
A genuine colonial convent building in Atlixco.
A real colonial landmark — a 17th-18th century Mercedarian church still recovering from 2017 earthquake damage.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private, full-day tour to Atlixco, including the Great Pyramid of Cholula archaeological site, the colonial Ex Convento del Carmen, and the Church of La Merced. This is confirmed as a full-day private tour with hotel pickup and private transportation. Real stops include the Great Pyramid of Cholula archaeological site, the Ex Convento del Carmen, and the Church of La Merced in Atlixco, a 17th-18th century Mercedarian church still recovering from 2017 earthquake damage.
The Ex Convento del Carmen in Atlixco has had more working lives than most buildings get. Built between 1600 and 1620 for the Discalced Carmelite order, it was closed as a religious site in 1853 and spent much of the following century serving, in turn, as a slaughterhouse, government offices, a school, a jail, and barracks for federal troops — an unusually long chain of secular reuse for a 17th-century convent. It wasn't until 1967 that the complex reopened as a cultural center, and a restoration beginning in 2002 gave it its current form: two museums under one roof, the Museo de las Culturas del Valle de Atlixco, covering pre-Hispanic artifacts from the surrounding valley, and the Museo Santa Clara upstairs, devoted to early colonial religious art.
The Church of La Merced, the tour's other Atlixco stop, is what remains of a Mercedarian monastery — its surviving 17th-century side door and 18th-century facade center on a niche sheltering an image of the Virgin of Mercy alongside the order's founder, Pedro Nolasco. The building took real structural damage in the September 2017 earthquake that struck central Mexico, losing part of its dome, with restoration work following in the years after.
Before either stop, the day starts at the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Tlachihualtepetl, built up over roughly six centuries into the largest pyramid by volume anywhere in the world — more massive than Egypt's pyramids, even though the vegetation covering it today makes it read as a hill until you're standing right at its base. Together, the pyramid and Atlixco's two colonial landmarks cover a genuinely wide stretch of real history in one private day: a pre-Hispanic monument, a 17th-century convent repurposed and restored across four centuries, and a Mercedarian church still recovering from a 2017 earthquake.
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