Teotihuacan Pyramids & Basilica de San Guadalupe Guided Tour with Optional Lunch

Three defining chapters of Mexican history — ancient, colonial, and sacred — covered with a bilingual guide over a full nine hours.

Getting started

Your tour begins at 9:00 AM. Present your ticket to your bilingual guide before departure. The full tour runs approximately 9 hours.

What to expect

Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlatelolco

One of the most symbolically layered sites in Mexico City — three civilizations physically occupy the same square.

• Pre-Columbian Aztec ruins, a 16th-century Spanish colonial church, and a modernist government building stand side by side.

• Your guide contextualizes the identity, clashes, and overlaps of each era — and the significance of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico's modern memory.

Teotihuacán

A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most powerful cities in pre-Columbian America — home to over 100,000 people at its peak, and still largely unexplained in its origins.

• Climb the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon — both aligned with the surrounding mountain landscape and once the focal points of the entire urban layout.

• Walk the Avenue of the Dead, the 2-km ceremonial spine connecting the city's major structures.

• Visit the Palace of Quetzalpapalotl, the Citadel, and the Flower of Teotihuacán arts and crafts center — home to objects that have fascinated scholars and visitors since the Aztec era.

• Your bilingual guide provides full commentary throughout.

Basilica de Guadalupe

The most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the Americas — and one of the most significant in the world.

• The site marks the spot where, according to tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego — a Nahua peasant — in 1531 and asked for a church to be built on the sacred ground.

• See the tilma, Juan Diego's cloak bearing the miraculously imprinted image of the Virgin Mary, displayed inside the New Basilica.

• Your guide covers the spiritual, cultural, and architectural significance across the Old Basilica, New Basilica, and surrounding chapels.