Constitution Square

It was built as a perfect square of 75 meters on each side, it was the starting point for the mapping of the city in 1524 and was completed in 1548. It acquired this name in 1813 in honor of the Spanish Constitution o f Cadiz and Mexican constitutions of 1857 and 1917. You can find The Source of the Holy Cross donated by King Philip IV of Spain in 1646 and The Kiosk, built in the nineteenth century. Cross donated by King Philip IV of Spain in 1646 and The Kiosk, built in the nineteenth century.

The Portals

Known as "Portal Real and Portal Parian," the mayor Don Diego Ramirez in 1550 took the initiative to do them, and the indigenous council contract 300 workers for its construction. It is a continuous set of buildings constructed in stages and was home to nine stores dedicated to selling products overseas. His popular neoclassical façade was restored in 1985 for the Town Hall.

Government Palace

It is the most important civil building of the sixteenth century, is divided into three segments: the east was known as Las Casas Reales, the center as the town hall and the west segment as the Corn Exchange. Today the building is occupied by offices of the state government, it is important to note that the inside Murals are painted by the Maestro. Desiderio H. Plasmo Xochitiotzin where the history of Tlaxcala is depicted.

Ministry of Tourism "Ex Legislative Palace"

In the late nineteenth century began the construction of this building as a residence for the Legislature, its facade is lined with gray stone, supported by pilasters with capitals very ornate in design. Its opening was recorded on May 10th of 1901 by former Governor Prospero Cahuantzi and functioned in this form until 1982.

Theatre Xicohténcatl

In 1873 the play of the battle of May 5th was represented, so we can maintain that the building existed. Relic of the Porfiriato, its old facade of mortar was replaced in 1923 by the current neoclassical carved stone, the top part was concluded until July 1945 and in the last restoration was the building of a new roof and making its low false ceiling 1984, in an art nouveau style.

Palace of Culture

This beautiful building from the late neoclassical style, it was started to be built in 1939, its facade is covered with brick and gray shaped stone ornamentation. Initially it was a state junior high school and high school, later became home to some departments of the UAT and in 1991 it was restored to house the Tlaxcala Institute of Culture.

Stairway of Heroes

It was first called "Steps of Independence" by the busts of Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, José María Morelos, and Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez. Later on November 20, 1998 were added the busts of Francis I. Madero, Ricardo Flores Magon, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Villa, Venustiano Carranza and Domingo Arenas (Tlaxcala revolutionary).

The Chichita

In the southwest corner formed by the avenues Vicente Guerrero and Porfirio Diaz there is a small fountain called "The Chichita". Water leaks from the forest area that existed in the past, where now colonies Xicohténcatl Loma and San Isidro are settled, a small underground runoff originated in the last decades of the nineteenth century, supplying drinking water to nearby houses.

Tlahuicole

Tlaxcalteca legendary warrior, fought in Floridas wars and was known for his strength and courage, becoming a symbol of dignity. He was captured by the Mexicas and taken to Tenochtitlan where he kept his honor dying in the gladiatorial sacrifice killing eight soldiers and wounding twenty others .

Chapel Royal of the Indies

Functioned as religious building for indigenous nobles. At the end of the eighteenth century a large fire collapsed the nave of the chapel and early nineteenth century a strong earthquake partially destroyed the building, being abandoned for many years until restored in 1984 to house the judiciary house.

House of stone

At the southwest of the Plaza de la Constitution you can locate the "House of stone". XVI century building built by a notary, who was said that no one left without paying for their legal problems that led them to pay with objects and those without sufficient funds, should bring pieces of xalnene and quarry.

Xicohténcatl Square

It is a space, where about twenty years ago, the traditional craft flea market on weekends can be found, remembering the activity that historically this site has recorded, from the colonial era, where the sale of slaves was a common practice, according to some chroniclers version..

Calzada de San Francisco

Located in the southeast of the square of crafts, it is a path with leafy ash trees and a floor covered with square slabs of stone and boulders at the top of the road you can find a structure of three arches, "Round Pass" that communicates the convent with the tower and is unique in the country.

Former Franciscan Convent of Our Lady of the Assumption

One of the first four convents of America. The cloisters were built high and low around 1539 and in 1540 functioned as a convent, east of the great court this area is important historically for having performed there the first theater in Nahuatl, evangelism as the purpose in 1537. Today the Regional Museum.

Plaza de Toros Jorge Aguilar "El Ranchero"

It is said that the space currently occupied by the square, was once the hospital of the incarnation and the cemetery of the city of Tlaxcala. But by the year 1867 on record that there was already a round, during the twentieth century the changes were made to be as we now know it. It is considered one of the most beautiful in Mexico.