I have been to Sedona's Tlaquepaque arts and crafts shopping and gallery center, and enjoyed browsing there immensely. But the real thing, the original, the old town about 10 miles from Guadalajara is even better. This community of more than half-a-million inhabitants inspired the Arizona shopping area.
Below are the tops of two landmark churches, El Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Solitude) and San Pedro (Saint Peter),
Many of Tlaquepaque's streets are for pedestrians only.
The old town is full of Talaquepaque history.
Beautiful carved door.
The center of Tlapequaque is clean and graffiti-free.
Small shops line narrow, car-free streets selling all manner of goods for residents and visitors.
Portals on some buildings along wider streets, like the main pedestrian street, protect people of sun and rain.
Open doors permit a peak of lovely center courtyards.
Food vendors are ubiquitous.
As are imaginative buisness, like this man who hacksaws any name onto a black key in just minutes.
And then, there's music, music everywhere.
And art and crafte as well, from very ancient...
...to very new.
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