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Roots Earth in Puebla: audio stories about 45 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 45 places in Puebla, Mexico, in Latin America. The Puebla stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Puebla, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 45 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: puebla.md

The 45 places in Puebla with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Puebla Cathedral
  2. Rosary Chapel (Santo Domingo)
  3. Convent Church of Santo Domingo
  4. Biblioteca Palafoxiana
  5. Amparo Museum
  6. International Museum of the Baroque
  7. Fort Loreto
  8. Fort Guadalupe
  9. Battle of Puebla Site
  10. Monument to Ignacio Zaragoza
  11. Church of Analco
  12. Convent Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen
  13. San Miguel Arcángel Fountain
  14. Statue of Sebastián de Aparicio
  15. Artisanal Talavera of Puebla
  16. Handcrafts and Folk Art in Puebla
  17. Great Pyramid of Cholula
  18. Cholula (Archaeological Site)
  19. Regional Museum of Cholula
  20. Church of San Francisco Acatepec
  21. Church of Santa María Tonantzintla
  22. Cholula
  23. San Pedro Cholula
  24. San Andrés Cholula
  25. Puebla Mexico Temple
  26. Estadio Cuauhtémoc
  27. Africam Safari
  28. Atlixco
  29. Cacaxtla
  30. Tlaxcala
  31. El Parián Market
  32. Barrio del Artista
  33. Callejón de los Sapos
  34. Barrio de Analco
  35. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
  36. Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
  37. Mole Poblano Tradition
  38. Chiles en Nogada
  39. Cemita Poblana
  40. Chalupas Poblanas
  41. Zacatlán de las Manzanas
  42. Chignahuapan
  43. Huejotzingo
  44. Cuautlancingo
  45. Popocatépetl

Is there an audio guide for Puebla Cathedral?

Yes. Puebla Cathedral has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 45 Puebla places in the app, at 19.04277778, -98.19833333. Every one of the other 44 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Puebla

Open Roots Earth and choose Puebla. The city has its own map of places with all 45 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 45 places in Puebla, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 45 places in Puebla, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Puebla Cathedral

Coordinates
19.04277778, -98.19833333
In one line
Rising over Puebla's main square, this 17th-century cathedral carries the tallest bell towers in Mexico. Begun in 1575 and consecrated in 1649, its sober stone facade guards a soaring interior of gilded altars and colonial masterworks.

2. Rosary Chapel (Santo Domingo)

Coordinates
19.04694444, -98.19805556
In one line
Completed in 1690 inside the Santo Domingo church, this dazzling Baroque chapel sheathes nearly every surface in gilded stucco and gold leaf. Praised in its day as the eighth wonder of the world, it was Mexico's first chapel honoring the Virgin of the Rosary.

3. Convent Church of Santo Domingo

Coordinates
19.04694444, -98.19805556
In one line
Completed in 1611, this Dominican church anchors one of Puebla's great religious complexes. Behind a restrained Baroque facade lies a vast stone interior, and a side door opens onto the famous gilded Rosary Chapel that made the church world-renowned.

4. Biblioteca Palafoxiana

Coordinates
19.0425, -98.1989
In one line
Founded in 1646 by Bishop Juan de Palafox, this is the oldest public library in the Americas. Its 43-meter Baroque hall of carved wooden shelves holds over 45,000 volumes and sits on the UNESCO Memory of the World register.

5. Amparo Museum

Coordinates
19.0408, -98.1985
In one line
Opened in 1991 inside two adjoining colonial buildings, this leading museum holds one of Mexico's finest collections of pre-Hispanic and colonial art. Its galleries span from 2500 BCE to the present, crowned by a rooftop terrace over Puebla's old center.

6. International Museum of the Baroque

Coordinates
19.0193, -98.2466
In one line
Opened in 2016 and designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, this striking white museum explores Baroque art and culture worldwide. Its curving walls, water court, and interactive galleries make it one of the most ambitious new museums in North America.

7. Fort Loreto

Coordinates
19.0578, -98.1871
In one line
Built on a hilltop shrine to the Virgin of Loreto, this 19th-century fort anchored the Mexican line during the Battle of Puebla on 5 May 1862. There, General Zaragoza's outnumbered army defeated the French, the victory now marked worldwide as Cinco de Mayo.

8. Fort Guadalupe

Coordinates
19.0525, -98.18
In one line
Fort Guadalupe crowns a hill above Puebla, where on 5 May 1862 a small Mexican army held off repeated French assaults. The companion to nearby Fort Loreto, its weathered walls still command sweeping views across the valley.

9. Battle of Puebla Site

Coordinates
19.05, -98.2
In one line
The Battle of Puebla Site spreads across the Loreto and Guadalupe hills, where on 5 May 1862 a Mexican army under Ignacio Zaragoza defeated invading French forces. Today the battlefield is a civic park of monuments, forts, and museums.

10. Monument to Ignacio Zaragoza

Coordinates
19.06055556, -98.18444444
In one line
Unveiled in 1896, this bronze equestrian monument honors General Ignacio Zaragoza, victor of the 1862 Battle of Puebla. Rising on the battle hill, the statue points toward Fort Loreto and now serves as the general's mausoleum.

11. Church of Analco

Coordinates
19.03877778, -98.19277778
In one line
Built in 1618 and inaugurated in 1619 in one of Puebla's oldest indigenous neighborhoods, the Church of Analco grew from a 16th-century hermitage. Its single nave, indigenous Baroque facade, and a carved Saint Michael make it a quiet survivor of the city's earliest history.

12. Convent Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen

Coordinates
19.03805556, -98.20208333
In one line
Founded by the Discalced Carmelites in 1586 on a 16th-century hermitage, this Baroque church on Avenida 16 de Septiembre is famous for its tiled, fortress-like merlon facade. Inside hangs a painting by Cristóbal de Villalpando.

13. San Miguel Arcángel Fountain

Coordinates
19.04369444, -98.19816667
In one line
Built in 1777 by architect Juan Antonio de Santamaría, this Baroque fountain crowns Puebla's main square. Topped by a carved figure of the archangel Michael, the city's patron, it has anchored the Zócalo for more than two centuries.

14. Statue of Sebastián de Aparicio

Coordinates
19.04519444, -98.19036111
In one line
Standing outside Puebla's San Francisco church, this statue honors Sebastián de Aparicio, a Spanish-born road builder and rancher who became a Franciscan lay brother and was beatified in 1789. His incorrupt remains rest within the nearby church.

15. Artisanal Talavera of Puebla

Coordinates
19.0425, -98.1995
In one line
Talavera is Puebla's signature tin-glazed pottery, a tradition brought from Spain in the 16th century. Its milky-white earthenware and cobalt-blue patterns earned a protected Denomination of Origin in 1997, defining the city's look.

16. Handcrafts and Folk Art in Puebla

Coordinates
19.0418, -98.199
In one line
Puebla state holds one of Mexico's richest craft traditions, blending indigenous and Spanish roots. From Talavera ceramics and carved onyx to amate bark paper, trees of life, and blown-glass ornaments, its towns each guard a distinct living art.

17. Great Pyramid of Cholula

Coordinates
19.0575, -98.30194444
In one line
The Great Pyramid of Cholula is the largest pyramid by volume on Earth, built in stages between roughly 300 BCE and 900 CE. Now a grassy hill crowned by a colonial church, it hides kilometers of excavated tunnels within.

18. Cholula (Archaeological Site)

Coordinates
19.06, -98.31
In one line
Cholula is one of Mesoamerica's oldest continuously inhabited cities, a sacred center to Quetzalcóatl and a great trade hub. Settled before 300 BCE, it grew to tens of thousands and was the site of a notorious 1519 massacre by Cortés.

19. Regional Museum of Cholula

Coordinates
19.057758, -98.300676
In one line
The Regional Museum of Cholula opened in 2017 in a former psychiatric hospital beside the Great Pyramid. Its eight halls trace the valley's geology, pre-Hispanic trade, viceregal art, and folk crafts, with a replica of the pyramid's construction phases.

20. Church of San Francisco Acatepec

Coordinates
19.02222222, -98.30861111
In one line
The Church of San Francisco Acatepec is famous for its facade entirely sheathed in Talavera tile. Completed in 1760 in exuberant Mexican Baroque, this glittering ceramic front near Cholula survived a 1939 fire and was painstakingly rebuilt.

21. Church of Santa María Tonantzintla

Coordinates
19.02986111, -98.31972222
In one line
Santa María Tonantzintla, near Cholula, is a masterpiece of indigenous Baroque. Built from the 16th to 18th centuries, its interior overflows with stucco angels, fruit, and faces carved by native artisans, fusing Catholic and pre-Hispanic belief.

22. Cholula

Coordinates
19.06333333, -98.30638889
In one line
Cholula is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Americas, famous for the Great Pyramid of Tlachihualtepetl, the largest pyramid by volume on Earth, now crowned by a colonial church and ringed by dozens of others.

23. San Pedro Cholula

Coordinates
19.06333333, -98.30638889
In one line
San Pedro Cholula is the commercial half of the twin Cholula towns, home to the San Gabriel monastery, the curious domed Capilla Real, and the long colonnaded Plaza de la Concordia, one of the longest arcades in Latin America.

24. San Andrés Cholula

Coordinates
19.05, -98.3
In one line
San Andrés Cholula is the historically indigenous half of the Cholula twins, holding the eastern flank of the Great Pyramid and two of Mexico's most dazzling folk Baroque churches, Santa María Tonantzintla and San Francisco Acatepec.

25. Puebla Mexico Temple

Coordinates
19.0846, -98.2359
In one line
The Puebla Mexico Temple is a Latter-day Saint temple dedicated in 2024, the first in Puebla state, its colonial Baroque design drawing on local Talavera ceramics and crowned by a single spire bearing the angel Moroni.

26. Estadio Cuauhtémoc

Coordinates
19.07805556, -98.16444444
In one line
Estadio Cuauhtémoc is Puebla's great football stadium, opened in 1968 to a design by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, host to matches at two FIFA World Cups, and home ground of Club Puebla.

27. Africam Safari

Coordinates
18.9371194, -98.1367064

28. Atlixco

Coordinates
18.9, -98.45
In one line
Atlixco is a colonial Pueblo Mágico southwest of Puebla, founded in 1579, famous for its flower-growing fields, folk Baroque churches, the hilltop Cerro de San Miguel, and grand views of the Popocatépetl volcano.

29. Cacaxtla

Coordinates
19.24313, -98.34
In one line
Cacaxtla is an ancient hilltop city in Tlaxcala, built by the Olmeca-Xicallanca people and flourishing between 650 and 900 of the Common Era. It is famous for vivid battle and ritual murals that still survive in their original places.

30. Tlaxcala

Coordinates
19.3125, -98.24
In one line
Tlaxcala is the small, colorful capital of Mexico's smallest state, founded in the 1520s. Once home to the indigenous allies who helped Hernán Cortés overthrow the Aztecs, it preserves one of the oldest Franciscan monasteries in the Americas and vivid history murals.

31. El Parián Market

Coordinates
19.04366944, -98.19345
In one line
El Parián is Puebla's beloved handicraft market, first opened in 1760 and revived in 1961. Its rows of brick stalls trimmed with Talavera tile overflow with pottery, silver, amate paper, and sweets, drawing artisans and visitors alike.

32. Barrio del Artista

Coordinates
19.044, -98.192
In one line
The Barrio del Artista is Puebla's painters' quarter, founded in 1941 by brothers José and Ángel Márquez Figueroa. In its small open-air studios visitors watch artists paint, sculpt, and exhibit beside a Baroque fountain on cobbled streets.

33. Callejón de los Sapos

Coordinates
19.0405, -98.1968
In one line
Callejón de los Sapos is Puebla's antiques alley, named for the toads that once gathered around its colonial watermills. Its plaza, built in 1849, hosts a weekend flea market of antiques, coins, and crafts amid colorful colonial facades.

34. Barrio de Analco

Coordinates
19.0385, -98.1928
In one line
Barrio de Analco is one of Puebla's oldest neighborhoods, settled by indigenous workers from the city's founding. Its church, built between 1618 and 1632 on a 1560 hermitage, anchors a quarter once linked to the center by a 1626 bridge.

35. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Coordinates
19.000742, -98.200512
In one line
The Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla traces its roots to a Jesuit residence dating to 1578; the Colegio del Espíritu Santo was founded on 15 April 1587. Its historic Carolino building anchors the old town, while a public university of over 117,000 students grew from that colonial seed.

36. Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla

Coordinates
19.0485, -98.2163
In one line
A private Catholic university founded in 1973 in the Barrio de Santiago, UPAEP grew from a student movement into one of Puebla's largest campuses, its red-and-white halls humming with study, research, and city life.

37. Mole Poblano Tradition

Coordinates
19.042, -98.1985
In one line
Puebla's signature sauce, mole poblano blends roughly twenty ingredients, from dried chiles and spices to a touch of chocolate, traditionally poured over turkey. Born in the city's colonial convents, it stands as a candidate for Mexico's national dish.

38. Chiles en Nogada

Coordinates
19.0412, -98.1992
In one line
A poblano chile stuffed with fruited picadillo, draped in white walnut cream and dotted with red pomegranate and green parsley, chiles en nogada mirrors the Mexican flag. Created in Puebla in 1821, it is eaten each independence season.

39. Cemita Poblana

Coordinates
19.043, -98.201
In one line
Puebla's signature sandwich, the cemita stacks breaded milanesa, avocado, stringy Oaxaca cheese, chipotle, and aromatic papalo herb on a sesame-crusted egg roll. Its name traces back through old Spanish to ancient words for grain.

40. Chalupas Poblanas

Coordinates
19.0408, -98.2002
In one line
Small masa tortillas fried lightly and topped with salsa, shredded meat, onion, and cheese, chalupas poblanas are a Puebla street-food staple. The name recalls a little boat, the shape the dish is said to resemble.

41. Zacatlán de las Manzanas

Coordinates
19.93194444, -97.96
In one line
A misty hill town in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Zacatlán de las Manzanas is famous for apples and cider, a double-faced floral clock, and a pioneering clock factory. It became a Pueblo Mágico in 2011.

42. Chignahuapan

Coordinates
19.83333333, -98.03333333
In one line
A Sierra Norte town whose name means roughly nine waters in Nahuatl, Chignahuapan is Mexico's capital of blown-glass Christmas ornaments. Its basilica holds a towering Marian figure, and thermal springs draw visitors year-round.

43. Huejotzingo

Coordinates
19.16194444, -98.40638889
In one line
Huejotzingo is a historic town northwest of Puebla, famous for its 16th-century Franciscan monastery of San Miguel Arcángel, its raucous four-day Carnival, and a long tradition of apple cider and fruit preserves.

44. Cuautlancingo

Coordinates
19.08333333, -98.26666667
In one line
Cuautlancingo is a fast-growing town on the edge of Puebla, where a deep pre-Hispanic past and a colonial parish church sit beside one of the largest Volkswagen plants in the world. Its name means approximately in the small forest.

45. Popocatépetl

Coordinates
19.0222, -98.6278
In one line
Popocatépetl is an active stratovolcano rising 5,393 meters on the border of Puebla, Morelos, and the State of Mexico. Its Nahuatl name means the smoking mountain, and it still vents ash and gas above the valley today.

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