WHY BOOK THIS TOUR WITH US?

If you love history, interesting architecture, indigenous narratives and unusual routes of travel, this tour will appeal to you.  

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TOUR CONTENT

New Spain was established in 1535 as a viceroyalty, with monarch loyalist viceroyal Antonio de Mendoza enjoying the first appointment.  Though silver had already been discovered in Taxco, Guerrero in 1534, it was in 1545 that Chichimec warriors introduced the Spanish to large deposits at La Bufa in what is now the flourishing city of Zacatecas. By 1550, deposits were located in Guanajuato and a handmade road  for transporting these riches to the port of Veracruz was already under construction.

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This tour follows a region known as La Puerta del Camino Real (Door of the Royal Road), which is a small portion of a larger trade route known as El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Interior Royal Road), which spanned a distance of 2560 KM (1590 Miles) from Mexico City to Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Our itinerary begins in Mexico City with nights spent in Tepotzotlan, Queretaro, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato City, San Luis Potosí, Real de Catorce and Zacatecas City.  From Zacatecas City, guests can fly back to Mexico City for your ret​urn flights/transport home, unless another flight path makes sense. Please tell us where you are starting and ending when you contact us, so we can look into flights. or you. Flgithsf

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Inscribed into UNESCO in 2010, there are 55 protected properties along this route, 5 of which are UNESCO designated World Heritage sites.  El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is itself, a UNESCO protected route due to the social, cultural and religious relationships that were forged between the Spanish and indigenous groups of the region, alongside historical structures, churches, road segments, bridges and one surviving garrison of 6 that were constructed during the Chichemeca War.

Exploring this route is your chance to time travel through the remnants of crumbling ruins and forgotten stories as you traverse an important trade route whose intersection in Mexico City connected the world, east from Europe through the Port of Veracruz, and west from the Philippines via the Manila Galleon's that docked in Acapulco, making Mexico the epicentre of international trade influences. 

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KEYWORDS FOR THIS TRIP

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* Trade History

* Silver Mines

* Ceramics
* Cuisine

* UNESCO Sites

* Religious Influences

* New Spain

* Monarch Loyalists

* Chichimeca War

* Indigenous Narratives

* Adventure

* Iconic

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