500 YEARS OF HISTORY
Originally, the Spaniards lived inside the walled city, while the natives lived in the surrounding barrios, which still retain their original churches and buildings.
500 YEARS OF HISTORY
Originally, the Spaniards lived inside the walled city, while the natives lived in the surrounding barrios, which still retain their original churches and buildings.
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE
Originally, the Spaniards lived inside the walled city, while the natives lived in the surrounding barrios, which still retain their original churches and buildings.
Campeche retains many of the centuries-old colonial Spanish city walls and fortifications which protected this port city (although not always successfully) from pirates and buccaneers’ assaults. The history and the state of preservation and quality of its architecture earned Campeche City the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
Campeche retains many of the centuries-old colonial Spanish city walls and fortifications which protected this port city (although not always successfully) from pirates and buccaneers’ assaults. The history and the state of preservation and quality of its architecture earned Campeche City the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
1-DAY EXCURSIONS FROM CHETUMAL
Pre-Columbian era
Campeche retains many of the old colonial Spanish city walls and fortifications which protected this port city from pirates and buccaneers’ assaults. Its architecture earned Campeche City is UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
The legend of the foundation
Campeche retains many of the old colonial Spanish city walls and fortifications which protected this port city from pirates and buccaneers’ assaults. Its architecture earned Campeche City is UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
More than one thousand buildings with a historic value have survived as witnesses of space and temporal superimposition of several significant historic periods of Mexico. Due to the constant attacks of buccaneers and pirates such as Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Laurens de Graaf, Cornelis Jol, Jacobo Jackson, Jean Lafitte, Francisco de Grammont, Bartolomé Portugués, William Parker, Francisco Nau, Edward Mansvelt, Henry Morgan, Lewis Scot, Roche Braziliano and Michel de Grammont for almost 160 years, in 1686, the government started to fortify the city.
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