TOURISM (MONTERREY)

 


MAIN TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF THE CITY

  • Government Palace
  • City Theatre
  • Neptune Fountain
  • Monterrey Casino
  • Metropolitan Cathedral
  • Commerce Lighthouse
  • Municipal Palace
  • Santa Lucia Walk
  • Old District
  • Star Biopark
  • Magic Wood
  • Sesame Street Park
  • Foundry Park
  • Diversia Fun Park
  • Dave & Buster
  • Puppet House
  • Mexican History Museum
  • Monterrey Contemporary Art Museum
  • Monterrey Metropolitan Museum
  • The Culture House
  • Railway Museum
  • State Popular Culture Museum
  • Glass Museum
  • Bishopric Museum
  • Mexican Professional Baseball Fame Saloon
  • Nuevo Leon Art Gallery (Pinacoteca)
  • Nuevo Leon Photograph and Cinema Arts Center
  • Centenary Museum
  • Alfa Planetarium
  • “El Blanqueo” Museum
  • Automobile Museum
  • Anthropology Museum
  • “Bernabé de las Casas” Paleontology and History
  • Linares Museum

MAIN TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN THE SURROUNDING AREA

  • El Cerro de la Silla
  • Chipinque Ecological Park
  • Garcia Caves
  • The Huasteca
  • Icamole Desert
  • Potrero Chico Canyon
  • Boca de Potrerillos
  • Bustamante Caves
  • Gavilan Well
  • Potosi Hill

EXPLAINED TOURIST ZONES

Star Biopark: Unique open park in the north of México with more than 1,000 animals, originating form five continents.

Magic Forest:
An amusement park with a great variety of very new and exciting games and a rapid river apt for children and adults.

Sesame Street Park: In its installations they combine interactive games and high technology all with didactic atmosphere, making it the only attraction of its kind in the country.

Foundry Park:
Industrial Archeology Museum, Cintemex, Monterrey Arena, Art Center, Film Library, Photography Library, Art Gallery Center, Coca Cola Auditorium and the CART Series Track.

Diversia Fun Center: With 12 cinemas, restaurant bar, food court, mini golf, simulators, virtual reality games and many more attractions, it is ideal for children and grown-ups to have a great time.

Dave & Buster: Internationally renowned new franchise with the most recent technology in videogames, golf simulators, billiard tables, bar and restaurant.

The Puppets House: Unique museum in Latin America dedicated to puppet art, with five exhibition rooms, puppet handling and construction workshops and a Theater Salon in which local, national and foreign shows take place.

Railway Museum:
Venue dedicated to trains, where old signaling, machinery and photos of old railway workers are exhibited.

Popular Culture State Museum:
It is located in the oldest building of the city of Monterrey, known as the Peasant House, whose construction dates from 1750

Glass Museum:
It is the first home of Mexican glass, located in the old offices of Monterrey Glass factory, where the most significant glass pieces of our country are exhibited.

Nuevo León Art Gallery Center: Exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs, etc. organized by the leading artists of Nuevo León and México.

Alfa Planetarium: There are exhibitions related the world of art, science and technology. It possesses the Imax Dome cinema system.

“El Blanqueo” Museum: This museum shows the development of industrialization in the state. It was declared A National Heritage Site by the National Institute of Anthropology and History, as the oldest factory in Nuevo León, restored in its original husk.

“Bernabe de la Casas” Anthropology, Painting and History Museum:
its mayor attraction is the exhibition of the remains of a Mammoth found in Mina.