HISTORIC MORELIA duration: 3-4 hours

Music Conservatory of Las Rosas and its church and gardens
Clavijero Palace
Public Library (Biblioteca Publica)
Colegio de San Nicolás
Plaza de Armas
Cathedral
Palacio de Gobierno
Michoacan Craft Center

COLONIAL MORELIA duration: 3-4 hours

Villalongin Garden
Las Tarascas Fountain
Callejon del Romance
San Diego Walkway
Guadalupe Church
Plaza Morelos
Aqueduct
Mirador del Asta

EN ROUTE TO PATZCUARO duration: 6-8 hours

Tiripetío
Tupátaro
Cuanajo
Zirahuén
Santa Clara del Cobre

TOWN OF PATZCUARO duration: 6-8 hours

Basilica Nuestra Señora de la Salud
Museum of Folk Arts
Jesuit College and Church
Sagrario Church
House of the Eleven Patios
Plaza Vasco de Quiroga

AROUND LAKE PATZCUARO Duration 6-8 hours

Capula
Quiroga
Santa Fe
Oponguio
Erongarícuaro
Tzurumútaro
Pátzcuaro

ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES duration: 5-6 hours

Ihuatzio
Tzintzuntzan
Tingambato
Pátzcuaro

MICHOACAN'S CEILINGS WITH A STORY duration: 6-8 hours

Unique in Michoacan, a feature of churches and chapels from the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries is their broad coffered ceilings with wooden beams and intricate curved or trapezoidal designs framing religious motifs -- litanies, angels and archangels, the passion of Christ and even floral themes. Masterfully designed, these ceilings are wonderfully esthetic as well as educational, with suburb acoustics. Together hey comprise a rich cultural heritage in Michoacan State.

Pomacuarán
Nurio
Cocucho
Charapan
Corupo

THE ROUTE OF THE MONARCH BUTTERFLIES duration: 7-9 hours

Angangueo
Sierra Chincua
Ocampo
Sierra El Rosario
San Felipe de los Alzati
Tlalpujahua
Leisure break: at one of the Tesoros Coloniales member hotels (in either Contepec or Zitacuaro)