Campeche City Walk: Discover Museums, Downtown and Colonial History
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Campeche
Immerse yourself in the rich history and culture of Campeche City on this engaging walking tour. Explore colonial streets, visit museums, and learn fascinating stories and legends. Don't forget your comfortable sneakers!
Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • The Sea Gate - What’s the story behind the ancient walls in Campeche? I’ll tell you all about them in here
  • Centro Cultural Casa No. 6 - Ancient maison with an inside patio and furnitre, architecture elements and style from the Mexican colonial era
  • Catedral de Campeche - If there’s a reason on understanding why our Cathedral is on a platfrom, I’ll tell you everything about it. Also, if open, we’ll access to our Holy Sacred Art Museum to get astounished by our XVII pieces of art.
  • Iglesia del Dulce Nombre de Jesus - Why would people build a church just one block away from the Cathedral? A clue: there’s a long history of racism, even in Mexico and even at this tiny port!
  • Land Gate (Puerta de Tierra) - If available, we’ll go up and walk along this walled part of the city to discover why pirates wouldn’t be attacking us by sea, but by land
  • Ex-Templo de San José - Ancient church made by the carpenters of colonial Campeche, made beautiful by the Jesuits and transform to become the first University of Campeche.
  • Palacio de Gobierno del Estado de Campeche - “El progreso de Campeche”, mural made by Jose Chavez Morado, one of the Mexican representative artist from the “Muralism” art movement
  • Municipal Archive of Campeche - Ancient prison of Campeche, famous of its several ghost stories
What's Included
  • Bottled water included
  • All fees and taxes covered
  • Carbonated beverages available
What's Not Included
  • Tips
Additional Information

Feel like a true ‘campechano’!\n\nThere are several ways in which you can join the daily life of a campechano, from learning the Mayan slang to drink the local drinks. I invite you to take this Walking Tour, in which you’ll do both while visiting the Historic Center of San Francisco de Campeche.\n\nDuring that time, you will visit the colonial streets of this colonial city, but with a huge insight on the details and gossiping of neighbors, legends, the embarrassing details of the churches and temples, ex-prisons and other controversial places of this city with almost 500 years of existence.\n\nYou’ll visit the boardwalk of the city, travel back in time as soon as you cross the Puerta de Mar, re-imagine the city that used to border the beach, visit the Cathedral of the city, learn about underground tunnels, old cinemas, religious Colonial art and the spooky tales of the Mayan region.\n\nThis is for the people with a love for stories!\n\nOh!… and bring your most comfortable sneakers!

Location
Oxxo Prolongacion 59
Calle 59
We'll meet up at Román Piña Chan Street (59 Street prolongation), next to a convencience store called OXXO. It's in front of the Sea Gate. Send me a text if you get lost. Also, you can send me a message and I'll meet you right out of your hotel, hostal or AirBnb apartment
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Sbjeintoronto
Feb 8, 2024
Wonderful Tour of a Beautiful City! - Hector is a wonderful guide. We learned so much from him. He's very knowledgeable about Campeche and he has a very engaging personality. The tour was a lot of fun and we thoroughly enjoyed it. He's a fantastic ambassador for his city!
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Robert_b
Jan 20, 2024
The perfect walking tour by a life long Campechano - This is a great way to get to know a little history of the city and to become familiar with Centro. Hector was informative and entertaining as he proudly showed us his city. He also had some great recommendations for restaurants, coffee and bars.
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393maximiliang
Nov 4, 2023
Interesting, very detailed, must do! - Yet another amazing tour, this time with the colonial history of Campeche. 100% recommend doin it, Ricardo was a great guide, spoke fluent English and really made the tour worthwhile! Thank you Ricardo!
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Danil_v
Sep 3, 2023
Campeche is a very remarkable city with a very interesting history. - My guide Ricardo was very knowledgeable and proud of his city Campeche. The complicated and sometimes violent history was clearly explained with the right amount of humour. We visited museums, churches, and pirate strongholds. Architectural highlights were pointed out
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Angelina_f
Aug 22, 2023
Super friendly and informative - Hector was very friendly and informative. We stopped for some fresh juice and he gave dinner reccommendations at the end of the tour.
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Lisa_r
Jul 30, 2023
Great walking tour with a... - Great walking tour with a local. Lots of great stories and information. Hector truly is very knowledgeable and proud of his City of Campeche!
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Dinah_d
Jun 10, 2023
Excellent tour - We thoroughly enjoyed the company of Hector. He was good fun and a good guide. We loved our visit to Campeche.
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Jjfleischer
May 6, 2023
Best tour in town - It was the best tour I've ever take, it was fun, entertaining and full of historical knollege about campeche and it's begginings. If you are visiting the city, this tour it's a must.
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