Lugares para visitar en Pátzcuaro y sus alrededores

A trip around Lake Pátzcuaro is an excellent option we recommend to our guests at Hotel Mansión Iturbe.   If you want a different experience – enjoying nature in a relaxing and quiet atmosphere, enjoying the biodiversity of the area – you’ll love this excursion. Lake Patzcuaro Lake Pátzcuaro   is located in the center of the State of Michoacán (which means “place of fishermen”).     This is due the pre-Hispanic era when the first human settlements were found near lakes, such as Lake Pátzcuaro , Lake Cuitzeo , Lake Zacapu, and Lake Zirahuén. Lake Pátzcuaro’s surface is 13,000 hectares (32,123 acres); the total shoreline length is 50 kilometers (31 miles); but its mean depth is only 9 meters.     It size surprises many of our visitors.     It has a very peaceful feeling to it, with dozens of small communities with deep cultural roots full of history.     The new visitor will be amazed by the folk art andartisanware to be...

How to get to Janitzio from Patzcuaro, This is a question that we get repeatedly from our guests at Hotel Mansion Iturbe . Janitzio is one of the local destination of our visitors. But the fact that it’s an island on our lake is sometimes daunting to the uninitiated. Getting to this icon of Michoacan is really a piece of cake!  Janitzio Island at Pátzcuaro Lake You have three options and they are easy as pie.   (Cake? Pie? Are you hungry yet?) First Option:   From Hotel Mansion Iturbe , you can take a taxi to the wharf ( Muelle General ).   There is a kiosk in front of the pier where they sell tickets on the traditional boats for $50 pesos (round trip), and they bring you back to the Muelle General in about a half hour. The price may fluctuate one way or the other.   Video of Janitzio Island from the Boat You need to remember that the “rush hour” for the people who live on Janitzio coming to Pátzcuaro to do their business is between 8:00 an...

Besides being a very “typical” Mexican village, Patzcuaro is also one of the most lovely villages in the entire country.   And our hotel in Patzcuaro, Mansion Iturbe, is right in the center of it all.   From our front door, you have access to all ten of the following destinations – on foot – in just a matter of minutes. Vasco de Quiroga Square in Patzcuaro La Plaza Vasco de Quiroga (“La Plaza Grande”) Considered one of the most beautiful plazas – or “squares” – in the country, it measures about 600 by 450 feet .   The central square of Pátzcuar o is unique in an unusual aspect:   There are no churches on its perimeter!   The famous Basilica and other temples are not even visible from the Plaza. Instead, La Plaza Vasco de Quiroga is surrounded by “civilian” – or once residential – structures of Boroque and Neoclassical architecture which, along with the gigantic trees surrounding the Plaza, come together to create the maj...