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Templo de la Transfiguración del Señor (s. XVI), Tuzamapan de Galeana, Puebla
Contrafuertes del Templo de la Transfiguración de Nuestro Señor, Tuzamapan de Galeana, Puebla
Transfiguration of Christ. Collection of the National Museum of the Viceroyalty, Tepotzotlán.
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Transfiguración

México, Mexico · North America

About Transfiguración

Transfiguración works well as a base: 10 minutes from Santa Ana Jilotzingo, 30km from Chapultepec Castle.

Transfiguración is in México, Mexico, with about 4,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Santa Ana Jilotzingo, about 5 km away.

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What is there to see near Transfiguración?

Within an hour or so of Transfiguración: Museo Nacional del Virreinato (26 km), Pujol (29 km), Chapultepec Castle (30 km), Museo Nacional de Antropología (30 km).

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The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.

Where is Transfiguración?

Transfiguración is in México, Mexico, about 5 km from Santa Ana Jilotzingo.

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Quick Information

Population
4,002
Continent
North America
Country
Mexico
Region
México
Timezone
America/Mexico_City
Coordinates
19.5771, -99.4195

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Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.

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Worth the detour from Transfiguración

8 notable places within an hour's drive.

museum

Museo Nacional del Virreinato

A vast former Jesuit college at Tepotzotlán whose Church of San Francisco Javier holds Mexico's most overwhelming set of gilded Churrigueresque altarpieces: a wall-to-wall gold explosion, plus colonial art across the cloisters.

26 km · about 30 min drive

restaurant

Pujol

Enrique Olvera's Polanco restaurant, where the signature mole madre is a black mole reheated for thousands of days and served as a single ring beside a fresh one. Two Michelin stars; book months ahead.

29 km · about 35 min drive

castle

Chapultepec Castle

A hilltop royal castle built in 1785, the only royal castle in the Americas, now housing the National Museum of History.

30 km · about 35 min drive

museum

Museo Nacional de Antropología

The world's greatest museum of pre-Columbian art and archaeology, home to the Aztec Sun Stone and stunning Maya artifacts.

30 km · about 35 min drive

cathedral

Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.

33 km · about 40 min drive

restaurant

Casa de los Azulejos

An 18th-century Mexico City palace sheathed on three sides in blue-and-white Puebla Talavera tile, its glass-roofed courtyard now the flagship Sanborns restaurant: breakfast under Orozco's staircase mural.

33 km · about 40 min drive

landmark

Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución)

One of the largest public plazas in the world and the historic heart of Mexico City, surrounded by the National Palace and Metropolitan Cathedral.

34 km · about 40 min drive

cathedral

Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.

34 km · about 40 min drive

When to drive here

Year-round

Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.

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