Walks · Oaxaca City · English
8 narrated stops, 24 minutes of stories, 1.9 km on foot. Press play at each stop — no app needed — or open the walk in Avsha and let the stories keep coming as you move.
Stop 1 · Casa de Ignacio Allende · 3 min
In short: This 18th-century mansion is where Ignacio Allende was born in 1769; the conspirators of 1810 met a few steps away, in his brother Domingo’s house on the main square, the Casa de las Conspiraciones. Currently serving as the Museo Histórico, it features reconstructed colonial rooms and architectural details reflecting the family’s Spanish viceregal status.
↓ 450 m · 6 min to the next stop
Stop 2 · Casa de Juárez · 3 min
In short: Casa de Juárez was the home of Antonio Salanueva, where a young Benito Juárez lived after arriving from San Pablo Guelatao. Now a museum, it is where Juárez learned Spanish and legal ideas before eventually becoming the President of Mexico.
↓ 150 m · 2 min to the next stop
Stop 3 · Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO) · 3 min
In short: Founded in 1988 by Francisco Toledo, IAGO is a cultural institute in Oaxaca. It houses one of Latin America's most important art libraries, containing over sixty thousand books and thousands of original graphic works with free admission for the public.
↓ 200 m · 3 min to the next stop
Stop 4 · Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán · 3 min
In short: Dominican friars began building this high-Baroque temple in 1570 using local cantera verde stone. Although seized for military use during the 19th-century Reform Wars, a late 20th-century restoration project returned the building and its sixty thousand gold leaf sheets to splendor.
↓ 150 m · 2 min to the next stop
Stop 5 · Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca · 3 min
In short: Originally a monastery and military barracks, artist Francisco Toledo saved the site from becoming a hotel in the 1990s. It is now an ethnobotanical garden designed to showcase plants that have sustained Oaxacan culture for ten thousand years.
↓ 450 m · 6 min to the next stop
Stop 6 · Paseo Juárez 'El Llano' · 3 min
In short: Paseo Juárez, commonly known as El Llano, is a historic park in Oaxaca City. Long known as the Llano de Guadalupe, after the neighboring sanctuary, it has featured a monument to Benito Juárez since the late nineteenth century and hosts a traditional Friday market.
↓ 500 m · 7 min to the next stop
Stop 7 · Templo de San Matías Jalatlaco · 3 min
In short: Built from red cantera stone between the late 17th century and 1713, this Baroque church was the spiritual center for Oaxaca's leather tanners. It features non-identical bell towers and a modest interior reflecting its humble, working-class roots.
↓ 50 m · 1 min to the next stop
Stop 8 · Barrio de Jalatlaco · 3 min
In short: Jalatlaco is one of Oaxaca’s oldest neighborhoods, originally a Zapotec village and later a centuries-old tanning district. It is known for its independent identity, the 17th-century Templo de San Matías, and murals celebrating local culture and the Day of the Dead.