No wonder the recent mention that it has received Comitan Chiapas community, as Magic Town of Mexico, considering the many cultural and natural treasures at their disposal within their municipal and territorial extension.Comitan is synonymous with endearing land of Chiapas pride, kindness villager and an area of peace and valuable traditions. People who decide to meet and travel to this beautiful corner of Chiapas, are an enviable climate, exotic flavors, flower-filled courtyards, horizons full of greenery and sunshine, with immemorial vestiges of the Mayan culture. Special mention deserve their wonderful colonial churches, in their respective architectural projections, perfectly evoke the divinity that is honored there. Moreover, the value that has Comitan from a historical perspective is not negligible: just remember that before this magical town, we are facing one of the cradles of Independence. For all these reasons and many more details, Comitan can be considered the tourist heart of the Chiapas region of Los Llanos. It is a space flooded with examples of traditional architecture, defined by houses with roofs and neoclassical details. Comitan de Dominguez, birthplace of the great writer Rosario Castellanos was formed thanks to the efforts of the estates of the region and as a result, was transformed into one of the most important provincial cities colonial times.

Comitan nearby, There are two extraordinary archaeological areas. One is to Tenam Bridge. It is 10 kilometers from Comitan. It is a pre-Hispanic site that had its best between the classic and post-classic period. There stands a superb ball game.The second archaeological site near Comitan, is to Chincultik, an interesting Mayan site, with a stunning cenote near Acropolis. . It is located 56 kilometers from Comitan Festivities most important of the municipality's are: A Santo Domingo and the trade fair (August 4), to San Sebastian (January 20), the Virgin of Candlemas (February 2), . to San Caralampio (11 to 20 February) and the Virgin of the Rosary (October 7) Gastronomy Typical dishes of the municipality they are: patashete sandwiches, pork and pinched (toast seat), chilevinagre, pickles, bones, sausages ( a kind of regional sausage boiled), without neglecting the sausage and the sausage (different from other towns), made bread, rotten pot, sloops, chanfaina, cooking, language pebre, faked, chinculuaj (tortillas stuffed with beans made rehash and chile de arbol) delicacy patzitos (sweet tamales stuffed with "pudding" made with cornstarch and cinnamon), pitaúl, banana leaf tamales, patzitos of Momon (tamales made from hoja santa, known as Comitan Momon plant), patzitos of chipilin (the chipilin is a plant), tamale ball, rack of pork in green sauce, cook them crippled. Liqueurs: Comiteco (a spirit that used to be made of agave), sweet wine (liquor fruits).The Salvadillo-tempered (is prepared by condensing boiled sugar with cinnamon, cloves and red food color), the nuégados, African, punches, quiebramuelas, mistela, jocoatol, granillo gruel, tzisim. Activities in Comitan Pueblo Magico Some additional recommendations must see places in the magical town of Comitan are the National Park Lagunas de Montebello, the Ecotourism Center Cascadas "The Chiflón" and Lakes Columbus. The first is a group of lakes that are within 59 kilometers of Comitan; the second offers, including several natural wonders, a curtain of water 120 meters high and finally the third, up a chain of water bodies, 73 kilometers from Comitan.

Among the most interesting thing to know in the magical town of Comitan, we should mention the following: in principle account highlights the beautiful church of Caralampio, which was built in 1852 to honor San Caralampio Martyr, which was the subject of devotion after the cholera and smallpox epidemic that overwhelmed the community in the mid-nineteenth century. By the way, the feast of St. Caralampio is one of the most significant of the Chiapas area, and every year takes place from 11 to 20 February in the neighborhood of La Pila, with plenty of drumming and chimirías, plus flowers everywhere and children masked jumping on the streets, which they are named as "devils". Also interesting is the Museum "Doctor Belisario Dominguez," which is a typical Comiteca nineteenth century building, with several gardens and balconies, decking architectural projection. There, tourists can learn, a distance of six rooms, many aspects of the life and work of this great man. Speaking of museums, the magical town of Comitan has another equally formidable. It is the Art Museum "Hermitage Castellanos Dominguez." It is a venue that opened in 1988 at the request of Francisco Toledo and Gunther Gerzso. This site permanently exhibited works of art created by artists of our country, such as the great Rufino Tamayo. Temporary exhibitions of artists from regional court. There are also organized Landmarks Church of Santo Domingo. Comitan presides over the main square of Santo Domingo Temple, built in the second half of the fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Of great sobriety in its facade, its massive tower cubic curpos related to the Moorish style, like the coffered ceiling system and sort of alfiz that frames the entrance. Within a single ship him two chapels were added, and in the Republican era. The August 28, 1821 Mass was held there three ministers in the Fray Matias de Cordova endorsed the invitation, made the same day in San Sebastian, to declare independence from the Spanish crown Comitan. The square of Comitan. It is one of the most pleasing public spaces of Chiapas is also surrounded by Rosario Castellanos Cultural Center and its beautiful courtyard of great columns of madrea, the town hall, built on the site of the former town hall where the Independence Act of 1824 was signed and the Junchavín theater neoclassical facade. Temple of San Caralampio. Other highlights of the visit to Comitan is the San Caralampio neoclassical temple, built in 1852 to honor a proto-martyr who is famous in Comitan the miracle that was attributed to save epidemics of smallpox and cholera morbus the population Ranch Don Raymundo Solis, where his appearance he was; Calvary Temple, whose facade has drawn motifs of baroque repertoire of San José de exuberant Gothic style, the San Sebastian, whose chapel of colonial origin is the cradle of the independence of Comitan, Chiapas and Central America and the Municipal Pantheon, representative the rise of Mexican funerary art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and some of whose chapels simulate miniature cathedrals. Archaeological Museum of Comitan. Located in a former school of art deco, shares space with the municipal public library. The main hall presents an overview of the pre-Hispanic cultures. By archaeological value and beauty are: the Preclassic, Silvanjab altar, leaning as individual, and some anthropomorphic heads of Liberty; the classic, circular mosaic Yerbabuena pyrite, black dishes Lagartero, a trail of Chinkultic and disk Tenam Rosario; PostClassic, the great urn for burial in the window where the burial cave of the Ansolos or necklaces Guajilar play.Another room is intended to bridge Tenam findings. Junchavin City Theatre. Facade in neoclassical style, began to be built as a private house, so on the balconies the NRA monogram of the owner is appreciated. Bought by Daniel Zebadua, I turned into theater and then went cinema. A fire destroyed the original interior (1940) and his current role as the main cultural forum dating back to 1985. The name refers to the archaeological area from a hill overlooking Comitan.