Observes the making of the looms to hand, visiting the house of an indigenous family tzotzil in Zinacantan “ Place of bats.
In San Juan Chamula: It discovers the magic and the syncretism devotico that you will find inside the church of San Juan Bautista, where the deep-rooted traditions even become present.
City tour for San Cristóbal de las Casas and there knows the important churches, museums, tourist good walker, market of crafts.
IT INCLUDES:
Tourist transportation of 1st. Class in units completely equipped with air conditioning, sound estereo.
Local information that they visit
Traveler's insurance (RC).
RECOMMENDATIONS:
In San Juan Chamula, it is disallowed to take photography inside the church, and to the authorities of the people for what we suggest not to lower the camera on having visited this community.
To wear comfortable shoes.
Repellent for mosquitoes.
Raincoats (In epoch of rains, from July until November).
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San Juan Chamula: Three quarters shape this ceremonial center tzotzil, distantly
10 km
of San Cristóbal de las Casas, placed in a select vale, according to the tradition, for the proper San Juan. Not only the hills mark the sacred spaces but also the crosses, which deep meaning mixes the Christian tradition with the pre-Hispanic roots. This one finds the ruins of San Sebastian at the entry of the way that he leads to the square, head office of the authorities, of the market and of the church, separated of the profane world for a wide thatched atrium. Of colonial construction, it is already valuable for his architectural elements, between which it stands out his big window abocinada, nevertheless, owes his reputation to the magic ambience of his interior. In her, the chamulas take part of rituals sincréticos with the only devotion and solemnity. The credence is influenced by the practices introduced by the evangelists of the XVIth century, adapted to more ancient religious traditions, so that these could survive.
San Juan Chamula was the principal stage of the war of Castes of 1869, recreated in the Office of Darkness of Rosario Castellanos.
San Andrés Larrainzar, another community tzotzil, placed to
12 km
of San Juan Chamula, it works also like a ceremonial center at that thousands of persons arrive during the celebrations of the holy boss and the carnival. Marta and Fairy cake come to the first one from visit in Holy procession, bosses of other communities of the same municipality. Both images carry huipiles traditional of big luxury. The wives of San Andrés and of the nearby communities believe big textile works in whose designs the mythological history is woven. In the huipiles flowers turn out to be holy, toads, milpas and butterflies; these are symbols of the sun and center of the square universe of the Mayan.
ZINACANTAN: Following the Pan-American highway, to
18 km
of San Cristobal de las Casas, the community of Navenchauc, clerk on Zinacantán, lies at the bottom of a vale surrounded with a typically calcareous relief. His houses, his gardens and his hothouses share the stage with a plain fulfilled by the rains during good part of the year and turned then into a lagoon, because of the difficulties of wastepipe of this vale cársico.
Of here it is returned towards San Cristóbal to take the highway to Zinacantán, which is a people tzotzil, to
10 km
of the city. The way that leads him, happens for the work of Esquipulas, beautiful example of the rural architecture of the High places where there was signed in 1869 the truce of the war of Castes. He continues bordering on the feet of the hill Huitepec, where an ecological reservation has been constituted with footpaths to appreciate the flora and the fauna tips of the moderate regions of Chiapas.
In Zinacantán the sacred spaces are marked by the hills that surround the small vale and the set formed by the church the St Lawrence, of origin colonial but remodelled at the beginning of century according to the taste of the neoclassicist sancristobalence, and the chapels of Esquipulas and San Sebastián.
The museum Ik'alojov sums up inside a traditional house of straw and mud, the cultural wealth zinacanteca. In him there are many samples of clothing, furniture, musical instruments, tools. The deployment of the handmade production of tones of big coloring to the vale which scenery is splashed with hothouses for the production florícola. The flowers are an important part not only of the economy zinacanteca but also of his rituals.
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS: One of the colonial cities that still preserves his traditional small squares, paved streets and roofs of red tile, founded on March 31, 1528 by Diego de Mazariegos, his current name owes to itself the Bishop Brother Bartolomé de las Casas, who during the XVIth century was a defender of the natives who were receiving the ill-treatment of the Spanish.
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