It is a picturesque town located in a mountain range with beautiful cobblestone streets and redtiled roofs and has been designated Magic Town. It is worth to visit: the Parish of San Francisco, it dates from the end of the 19th century and it has an extraordinary high tower; the Sanctuary of Guadalupe also known as the "Church of the Jarritos", due to the fact that its tower is decorated with hundreds of small clay jugs; The Chapel of the Conception, with exquisite mural paintings; the Calmahuistic Ethnographic Museum, which exhibits a series of typical objects of the inhabitants of the region, traditional cloths, crafts and looms as well as archaeological pieces, photographs and documents.
Just four miles to the east of Cuetzalan, is the archeological zone of Yohualichán, with a ceremonial center built on a series of natural platforms; the site contains present very special characteristic such as the alignments of niches that finish off the different buildings from the pyramidal structures, and it is related to the El Tajín site in Veracruz.
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