Posted in Xalapa, culture, tourism on November 12, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Photo by Laura Garcia
The Anthropology Museum in Xalapa gets high marks from everyone who visits. It is renowned for having seven giant Olmec heads on display. About seventeen have been excavated in the State of Veracruz. Carved from basalt, the heads range in size from 6 to 9 feet tall and are estimated at about [...]
Posted in Xalapa, articles on November 11, 2006 | No Comments »
These are some of the best articles on Xalapa I’ve seen so far:
Xalapa: City of Flowers - by Alan Cogan, published on Mexconnect. It doesn’t say when the article was written, but a reference in the final paragraph leads me to believe it was written in 1998.
Xalapa of My Dreams - by Roy Dudley, published [...]
Posted in site news on November 10, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this week the Visit Xalapa Yahoo Group was formed. To date our members include two expats who live there, one who has been living there for 30 years and one who has been living there for three months. Another has visited several times. We are fortunate to be starting out the group with this [...]
Posted in site news on November 8, 2006 | No Comments »
Today is the birthday of the Visit Xalapa website. Xalapa is the capital city of the state of Veracruz in Mexico AND the place where some of us are thinking of living in the future.
We have another domain URL at http://www.VisitXalapa.net, which will bring you directly to this site if you care to use it.
You [...]
