3-Hour Mezquitan Cemetery Tour

Mezquitan Cemetery In Mexico

Highlights

Visit Mezquitan Cemetery in Guadalajara

Sculpture Garden

Guadalajara

historical, sightseeing, Story Telling

Private Tour

3 Hours

Easy

English, Spanish

Description

Visit Mezquitan Cemetery in Guadalajara of Mexico, where thousands of “Tapatios”, including politicians, writers, religious ministers and anonymous people have been buried. See the Sculpture Garden in the cemetery and observe tombs of different shapes and sizes in this 3 hours tour.

Itinerary

Visit to the Mezquintan Cementry
- Discover the graves of Tapatios (Mexican Spanish colloquial term for someone from Guadalajara) at night.
- Explore Mezquitán, also contains a Sculpture Garden with remarkable funerary monuments abound, chapels and tombs of elegant shapes and various sizes.
- Explore around Mezquitán and know about its history. The first tenant of the cemetery was Mr. Hans Jaacks, an apothecary of German origin. Its entrance gate has forged iron bars with figures of skulls and crossbones. It has an area of 25 hectares.
- Trace how it resembles a book with pages open as long as it's monuments and gravestones can be read of poignant epitaphs ranging from despair over the loss of a loved one, to the unwavering faith in God's promises.