TOLUCA, MEXICO STATE CAPITAL - THE BACKPACKING

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Monday, October 13, 2014

TOLUCA, MEXICO STATE CAPITAL

Toluca "Beauty" has earned this name by the neoclassical French style architecture flaunt their homes; It is a meeting point between modernity and tradition as it presents a major industrial development that does not dull the perfection of buildings such as the Gates and the Cathedral, considered among the most important artistic
expressions of the colonial period and the nineteenth century in the city​​. The city is an industrial, commercial and tourist center very prominent in the state of Mexico.


 
This dynamic city welcomes the traveler with beautiful natural scenery as the Insurgent Miguel Hidalgo National Park, popularly known as "La Marquise", where activities are performed outdoors and extreme sports or the Nevado de Toluca, one of the preferred sites for ecotourism activities, the fourth highest peak in the country and also the only volcano in the world whose crater can be reached by car.

The name comes from the Nahuatl Tōllohcān Toluca, meaning place of the god Tōlloh. Toluca "Beauty" has earned this name by the neoclassical French style architecture flaunt their homes; It is a meeting point between modernity and tradition as it presents a major industrial development that does not perfectly opaque constructs such as the Gates and the Cathedral, considered among the most important artistic expressions of the colonial era and s. XIX within the city