The Republica de el Salvador Downtown Walking tour is is a non-touristy downtown street full of all sorts of unexpected surprises. Definitely off-the-tourist-radar map, this street offers a very impressive and wide variety of eclectic, unexpected multi-cultural sites!
We’ll be visiting the Rule Building (where Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel literature Winner wrote part of his award winning novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”), as we head over to Republica de El Salvador Street, where we will visit the Mexico-Israeli Cultural Center, a repurposed tenement building, to learn about early Jewish immigration to Mexico.
We’ll also scope out the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Museum which is located in what was once a convent, check out the shockingly colorful and creative murals of Russian-born muralist Vlady, illustrating many different kinds of revolution. We will also see the courtyards of the oldest hospital on the hemisphere.
Along the way, we’ll stop at a semi-abandoned mural painted by the famous artist Jose Clemente Orozco (considered one of the three great muralists of Mexico) inside a dusty old church, which also houses the remains of Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes (in case you were wondering where he was laid to rest)!
This is a very unusual downtown walk that you probably wouldn’t do on your own. Definitely not Mexico 101! Join us as we explore a wide assortment of spots which include art, architecture and (yep!) a little bit of shopping hidden downtown. Well worth a morning off. Don’t miss it!
This unusual, eclectic walking tour takes about three hours.