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Mexico’s Gilded Age experience: palaces, art & pulque tasting
Tabacalera
Important Information
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
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Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
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Not recommended for pregnant travelers
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Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Are you ready to turn your hobbies into a business?
If you’re interested in discovering the artistic essence of Mexico, step with me into a guided journey where architecture, history, and social transformation intertwine.
I’m Edgar, certified local guide and I invite you to explore Mexico’s own Gilded Age: the Porfiriato. Together, we’ll walk through opulent mansions, grand palaces, and emblematic landmarks that still preserve the elegance, European eclecticism, and ambition of a dictator.
We’ll revisit the final years of a 19th-century regime built on progress and inequality, and trace how those tensions gave rise to a new artistic and architectural identity and helped ignite one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th centu...
Highlights
6 hours
Offered in English & 2 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
6 hours
Offered in English & 2 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Entrance fee
In-person Guide
Government Fees
Gratuities
Snacks
Meeting Points
Departure
Torre Caballito
We meet at the base of the big yellow horse sculpture known as "Caballito de Reforma".
Return
Dulcería de Celaya S.A. de C.V.
Mexico’s Gilded Age experience: palaces, art & pulque tasting
Tabacalera
About
If you’re interested in discovering the artistic essence of Mexico, step with me into a guided journey where architecture, history, and social transformation intertwine.
I’m Edgar, certified local guide and I invite you to explore Mexico’s own Gilded Age: the Porfiriato. Together, we’ll walk through opulent mansions, grand palaces, and emblematic landmarks that still preserve the elegance, European eclecticism, and ambition of a dictator.
We’ll revisit the final years of a 19th-century regime built on progress and inequality, and trace how those tensions gave rise to a new artistic and architectural identity and helped ignite one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th centu...
Highlights
6 hours
Offered in English & 2 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
6 hours
Offered in English & 2 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Entrance fee
In-person Guide
Government Fees
Gratuities
Snacks
Meeting Points
Departure
Torre Caballito
We meet at the base of the big yellow horse sculpture known as "Caballito de Reforma".
Return
Dulcería de Celaya S.A. de C.V.
Itinerary
1
Museo Mural Diego Rivera
Admire with me one of Diego Rivera's most important murals, which portrays Mexican society with characters from the Spanish conquest to the 19th century.
30 minutes
2
Alameda Central
Lets walk through one of the oldest parks in the Americas to learn about Mexican society, paying attention to some of the old mansions of the richest people of the time.
45 minutes
3
Palacio de Bellas Artes
We'll walk around the lobby of the Palace of Fine Arts, an emblematic theater of the Porfiriato period, which encapsulates in its architecture the social tensions surrounding the industrial development of Mexico and the social issues of the time.
30 minutes
4
Palacio Postal
We'll appreciate the splendor of the Mexican Gilded Age in one of the most beautiful venues in the city, a space where luxury was not designed for private enjoyment but for the Mexican public postal service. Let's walk around the entrance and lobby of this fabulous building of the Mexican Gilded Age.
30 minutes
5
Dulceria de Celaya
Come visit and enjoy one of the oldest Mexican candy shops in the city, which has the original decorations from its opening in 1874.
