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Cosmovitral-Jardín Botánico de Toluca
Ubicado en el centro Histórico de Toluca, entre las Calles Benito Juárez y Lerdo de Tejada, el Cosmovitral puede ser visitado de martes a domingo en un horario de 9:00 a 18:00.
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El Teatro Morelos es sede de Importantes eventos tanto culturales, políticos y populares en la ciudad de Toluca, y esta ubicado en Plaza Morelos s/n esq. Aquiles Serdán,, Pedro Ascencio y Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Col. Centro, Toluca, MEX 08400
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Los Portales es un area comercial de Toluca. Está cerca a la Catedral. Existen diversas tiendas y restaurantes.
Es posible ver el Volcán Nevado de Toluca.
Visitar el mercado de Toluca
ost of the central sights are clustered north of the portales and the cathedral, close to the massive open Plaza de los Mártires , dominated on the north side by the Palacio del Gobierno. To the east is the Plaza Garibay , rather prettier with shrubbery and fountains stretching down to the Jardín Botanico Cosmovitral (Tues-Sun 9am-6pm; US$1.10), Toluca's botanical gardens housed in an enormous hundred-metre-long Art Nouveau greenhouse that was built in 1909 and served as the main market until 1975. With predominantly semi-tropical displays, small pools and even a well-tended Japanese corner it is an attractive garden, but the highlight is undoubtedly the amazing stained-glass panels done in the Mexican muralist style by local artist Leopoldo Flores. Coloured glass covers almost every inch of the walls and roof, the red of the flaming human figure at the west end gradually fading to blue in the east. Come early or late to catch the low sun giving a coloured cast to the plants. The northwestern corner of Plaza Garibay is occupied by the Museo de Bellas Artes , on Santos Degollado (Tues-Sun 10am-6pm; US$0.20, free on Sun) typically shows off some of the best fine arts in the state but is currently being renovated.
Back on Plaza de los Mártires, the Museo José Maria Velasco (Tues-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 10am-4pm; free) occupies two floors of a colonial house and displays a good collection of nineteenth-century paintings, much of it by Velasco, who was born in the State of México in 1840, though he spent much of his life in Mexico City. There's a re-creation of his studio along with busts, portraits, and some delightful landscapes including a delicate rendering of the volcanoes and the Valley of México. Several rooms host temporary exhibits, often featuring work by his contemporaries from the San Carlos academy in the capital.
The State of México makes a point of honouring its artistic sons, and just around the corner from the Velasco museum are two more museums dedicated to local painters. The Museo Felipe Santiago Gutierrez , Nicolas Bravo 9 (Tues-Sun 10am-6pm; free), fills a colonial mansion with sketches, oils and portraits of prominent nineteenth-century Mexicans; but there is more interest next door at the Museo Taller Nishizawa (Tues-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 10am-4pm; free) where large abstract landscape canvases by Mexican-Japanese Luis Nishizawa take pride of place alongside pen and ink drawings and some of his more recent portraiture.
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