Sights in Villahermosa
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Parque-Museo la Venta
This fascinating outdoor park and museum was created in 1958, when petroleum exploration threatened the highly important ancient Olmec settlement of La Venta in western Tabasco. Archaeologists moved the site’s most significant finds, including three colossal stone heads, to Villahermosa.
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Museo de Historia
Housed in a striking 19th-century building known as La Casa de los Azulejos (House of Tiles), the Museo de Historia has sparse exhibits on Tabasco history, but the Spanish azulejos themselves, which cover the facade and most of the interior, are gorgeous.
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Museo Regional de Antropología
Still being reconstructed following the 2007 flood, the regional anthropology museum holds some interesting exhibits on Olmec and Maya cultures in Tabasco. It’s 1km south of the Zona Luz in the ‘CICOM’ complex, and is due to reopen by 2012.
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Regional Anthropology Museum
Still being reconstructed following the 2007 flood, the regional anthropology museum holds some interesting exhibits on Olmec and Maya cultures in Tabasco.
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Museo de Historia Natural
The Museo de Historia Natural has quite well set-out displays on dinosaurs, space, early humanity and Tabascan ecosystems (all in Spanish).
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Torre del Caballero
Known locally as ‘El Mirador,’ this lookout tower, on a footbridge over the Río Grijalva, affords good panoramas over the city and river.
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Palacio de Gobierno
The gallery in the Palacio de Gobierno stages varied exhibits of Tabascan and other Mexican work.
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