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Acapulco Travel Guide

Since the 20th century, Acapulco has been a popular resort for tourists taking long holiday weekends and cruises from the United States, the Mexican interior and countries in South America. Now the city is well known worldwide.

About Acapulco

Acapulco covers an area of 726.9 sq. miles (1882.6 square Km) and is estimated to have a population of 720.000 people being the largest city and a major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

Dolores Olmedo Museum

m5.jpgIt was the old house of Mrs. Dolores Olmedo, patron and friend of artists and intellectuals, amongst them the renowned artist Diego Rivera, who was a guest of the house in 1956, creating a mural, on an external wall and on the ceiling of a terrace, of neat pre-Hispanic influence using mixed techniques in which he utilized mosaics and stones of natural colours. The figure of a feathered snake alluding the god Quetzalcoatl, along with other images such as small toad, an animal which Rivera used to identify himself with, stand out in the artwork.
Address: Avenida Costera Miguel Aleman 4455, Fraccionamiento Costa Azul, Acapulco
Telephone: (74) 484-7046
Attending hours: Tuesdays through Sundays during working hours.



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