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Morelia

With a consistent colonial style throughout, Morelia is one of the most beautiful cities in Mexico. It is not really on the well-trodden path of the leisure tourists and so you can walk around in comfort without fear of the bermuda shorts crowds. Wikivoyage

Population 743,275 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Mexico

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Mexico

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Morelia. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Organ Festival

    May

    Spotlights music performed on the beautiful pipe organ in the city's main cathedral, which is an impressive instrument consisting of more of 4,600 tubes. The festival happens the first two weeks of May

  2. International Music Festival

    July – August

    Performances featuring international artists of different musical genres, takes place the last week of July and the first week of August

  3. Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe

    November – December

    Visit the Santuario de Guadalupe between the last week of November and December 12. For two weeks, Mexico celebrates the Virgin of Guadalupe, and Morelia's celebration is a classic!

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Morelia); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 4 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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