Oaxaca attractions on the map

The garden will show you whom the new urban promenade displaced from the cathedral square.

Here, a ritual contest becomes a way to settle a dispute with very tangible consequences.

The church shows how a merchants’ confraternity, a major donation, and burial rights turned a chapel into a shrine.

Here, one deciphered slab will send archaeologists to test a hypothesis far beyond the city.

The finale will tell how monastic walls became part of a secret line of communication with a prisoner.

This stop examines images whose name outlived the original arrangement and meaning of the panels themselves.

The final stop will conclude the route with the relocation of vendors that was intended to be temporary.

The auditorium will show how ticket prices divided viewers of the very same film.

Here, the route will examine the decision after which a contested street became the center's main pedestrian thoroughfare.

Here, the cost of the shared urban space for which residents leveled the summit and buried early buildings will become clear.

Here, a trading place becomes a family legacy, and the market’s familiar name turns out to be incomplete.

This stop explains why meat, braziers, tortillas, and shared tables still belong to different vendors.

The cathedral introduces the dispute over who has the right to speak in the name of a city occupied by rebels.

Here, modern construction will become the starting point for a discussion of preserved homes and remains found during the work.

The stop will show a ceremony in which the entire family depicted on the stone confirmed the right to an office.

Here, a festive production will gain a venue, lose it, and leave behind a commemorative plaque.

The final stop will show how images of a former ruler became hidden stones in a new sacred structure.

The main square will connect the relocation of merchants with a brief experience of elected city government.

Here, the route will show how a trading ploy became an annual city custom.