OAXACA Quik view

Oaxaca, the state capital, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, owes its fame to the beauty and harmony of its architecture, its rich cultural traditions, the wide variety of its typical foods and its soft temperate climate, spring throughout the year.

The Zócalo, continues to enjoy one of the most beautiful places of Mexico, the center of life in Oaxaca. The arcades that the Government Palace and the buildings house restaurants, terraces, gates and bars. From early morning there are already people talking at the tables in the shade of the huge Indian laurels. The conversation can be accompanied, as at present, with chocolate for dunking, café de olla (boiled with cinnamon and cane sugar), lemon and mezcal worm salt, tequila, juices and excellent beer. It is common to overlook the square herb, earworm, healers, grasshoppers vendors, artisans and various buttons. The herb basil offer, starfish and nutmeg healers floripondio mitigate insomnia and buttons to cure fright and soul loss. According to Elliot Weinberger, English translator of Octavio Paz, the Zocalo of Oaxaca is the place to do nothing.