2. What does
“Toluca” means?
Toluca's name
comes from
"Tollocan" symbol
Nahuatl that
means "place
where the God
Tolo is" in "Tolo"
local God who has
the sense of tilting
the head and "can"
that means place. Tolo God
By: Irlanda Morales González 2
3. About its
history
During the War of
Independence, in October
19, 1811 there were killed
100 insurgents , who were
captured by the royalist
soldiers in the battle of
Calvary, hill that is located
in the city of Toluca, whose
square there is a
monument Father Miguel
Hidalgo y Costilla,
considered the father of
the Mexican
Independence.
Calvary HillBy: Irlanda Morales González 3
4. Municipal
shield of Toluca
Toluca's municipal shield was
designed in the year of 1979,
the center of the shield
contains a map of the
territory, with red bottom
delimited in black; in another
part of the map, there is
Tolocan's figure, constituted
by the image of a “tepetl” in
green color with three
projections that represent the
sign “tetl” (stone) and on this
one, there´s the head of the
god “Tolotzin”, in the inferior
parts it has two figures in red
and yellow and ultimately a
tape with the legend "
Toluca's Municipality”.
Municipal shield of
Toluca.
By: Irlanda Morales González 4
5. Toluca's
Cathedral
The Cathedral of Toluca is
constructed of gray quarry neo
classic style, measuring 90
meters of length by 45 meters
of width and with a height of
60 meters, devoid this of porch,
the main face has eight column
couples, it has a door in the
centre and in two of the every
side, there are niches with
images, in the left side San Juan
and Saint Thomas and in the
right side San Peter and
Santiago the Major one. On
May 12, 1867 it was placed the
first stone, the construction
was suspended for 80 years
and was dedicated on April 11,
1978.
Toluca´s Cathedral
By: Irlanda Morales González 5
6. The Portals
The Portals are of
quarry type “Carpanel”,
that is to say three
curvatures. The
construction begins in
1832 and finishes four
years later, they have
116 arches, they were
constructed by Don
Jose Maria Gonzalez
Arratia. In his interior
there is a wide variety
of trades, where typical
sweets and liquors of
flavors can be
acquired.
The Portals
By: Irlanda Morales González 6
7. Botanical garden
Cosmovitral
The Botanical Garden
Cosmovitral with a structure
architectural that belongs to
the art called noveau,
constructed with quarry and
bitrales (3200metros
squares). Inaguro in 1933, as
" Market of Carmen ", which I
work for 40 years, nowadays
his use is of botanical garden.
The author of the plastic
design of the virtral is the
artist Leopoldo Flores, the
topic guira around the
dialectical solution to the
universal dualities.
Botanical garden
Cosmovitral
By: Irlanda Morales González 7
8. Park
“Cuauhtemoc”
The construction of the park
“Cuauhtemoc” begins in the
year 1831 and is finished 11
years later. To the victory of
the Mexican Revolution,
Toluca's former Central
Avenue received the name of
Park Cuauhtémoc, in
honoring to the last Aztec
king; to complete this work,
the government of Gustavo
Baz Prada asked there was
placed to the center of this
land the sculpture of the
recognized Aztec leader. The
work is of the sculptor
Tamariz, author is of great
part of the statues.
Cuautemoc´s
sculptiure
By: Irlanda Morales González 8
9. Museum Jose
Maria Velasco
This building re-dresses
historical importance since in I
stay the priest Michael Hidalgo
and Rib in October, 1810, is his
step to the Battle of the Monte
of the Crosses. Nowadays the
museum this one dedicated the
Mexican landscape painter who
takes his name. It possesses
eight rooms, his array counts
with mas of 40 works of the
artist mexiquense, especially of
Mexican landscapes,
predominating over the
technology of the oil.
Museum Jose
Maria Velasco
By: Irlanda Morales González 9
10. Toluca's
Municipal palace
The building I construct him on
the areas that I occupy the
cemetery of the Franciscan
Convent, for the Municipal
President at the time Don Jesus
Fuentes y Muñiz, on July 11,
1872 and finishing in 1883.
Nowadays the building shelters
the offices of the municipal
presidency, the regidurias, the
cindicaturas, the Secretariat of
the Town hall. It possesses two
solemn enclosures: the
Presidents' lounge, and that of
Chapters, which illuminates in
his walls portraits of prominent
figures of the national and local
history.
Toluca's Municipal
palace
By: Irlanda Morales González 10
11. Toluca's snow-
capped mountain
Toluca´s snow-capped
mountain is located to 48 km to
the southwest of the city of
Toluca, it is the fourth elevation
of the country with a height of
4680 meters on the level of the
sea. In 1936, is declared
National Park, for its landscape
beauty. One of its
characteristics is that it is
possible to come up to the
crater in car and to visit its two
lagoons known as the Sun and
the Moon, in this one skuba
diving is practiced by highly
qualified groups and it is
possible to fish trout I plough
iris.
Toluca's snow-capped
mountainBy: Irlanda Morales González 11
12. Reference
• Mier, Alfonso G. Bravo y. «" Toluca a heritage
to enjoy ".» (2007): 3,4,7,11,12,14,17,23,30.
By: Irlanda Morales González 12
