Video of Veracruz, Veracruz For the Traveler, video, city video.

The happy and carefree manner that characterizes the veracruzanos is widely reflected in all their dances. With the sound of  the marimba and harp and to tap one's feet, the dance of this beautiful state becomes a great spectacle worthy of be seen. The women with richly embroidered dresses and men completely white dressed, give a touch of great elegance to these traditional cultural manifestations of our country.

Veracruz now shines as one of the most attractive tourist destinations thanks to its remarkable cultural diversity, magnificent buildings, music, folklore and the joyous feeling of the "jarochos", as they are also known. The Plaza de Armas or Zocalo located at the heart of the city where time ago  started many battles and political struggles, it is a beautiful stage that serves as the ideal framework for presenting all kinds of events. The folk dances attracted both friends and strangers and invites to savor the spirit of the place at the sound of danzon.

In 1518 the Spanish captain Juan de Grijalva arrive to the  islet that  he called San Juan de Ulua. Then, on the beaches in front of  the islet,  is founded by Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes the  Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz on April 22, 1519.  We could say that the city and the  port of Veracruz were the first to give birth to this thriving nation by  having become a starting point for a mixture of two worlds.

Today, the carnival begins on the called Martes de Carnaval, which according to the liturgical calendar is  calculated 8 days before Ash Wednesday, with a parade of children on the independencia  street as a preamble, then comes the "Quema del mal humor" that after having travelled the main avenues of downtown, reaches its final destination to be burned and giving rise to the carnival and inviting both  friends and strangers to join to this celebration and so it be officially inaugurated. Continuing the  days with the coronation of children kings.

The  City Hall and the Port of  Veracruz

The Venustiano Carranza Lighthouse from neoclassical style,  is an architectural work planned and carried out in 1902 by two engineers: Salvador Echegaray and Lattine. It is part of the buildings that together with the construction of dams, seawalls and jetties, constitute the Port Works which were inaugurated on March 6, 1902 by the President Porfirio Diaz. The lighthouse is flanked by two bodies of two-story, its rectangular floor  has a patio surrounded by  semicircular arches. Nowadays the Lighthouse is occupied by  the administrative offices of the La Armada de Mexico.