Welcome
to Hotel Fortin Plaza in central Oaxaca. This 92 room oasis (with internet access and room
service) most with 2 double beds and all with
ceiling fans, air conditioning, and private bathrooms with showers.
Room service
is available.
Many rooms have either French windows or tiny balconies
looking down on the property's lovely plantings and small pool.
Rooms include
nice examples of local colour and crafts.
The hotel is located 15 minutes from the main square
which is an ideal location for superb vistas of the city.
A small pool and fine restaurant compliment your stay in this enchanting Oaxaca hotel. Rates in USD per night plus
18% tax Children up to 11 free staying
with parents © 2006 thru 2007 by CancunSteve
From the Hotel Fortin Plaza the wonder of Oaxaca is at your doorstep...
The restaurant serves Oaxaqueña cuisine at its' best.
In 1532 the city was
given the royal title of “Noble and Loyal City of Antequera” by the King of
Spain, Charles V who had a reputation as being verbose. In 1821 the name was changed to Oaxaca, which is derived from
the Náhuatl word huáxyacac, an acacia-like tree
that produces an edible seed (if you like eating seeds).
In 1872, after the
death of the State's native son, Benito Juarez (Benemérito de las Américas), the
city changed its name to Ciudad Oaxaca de Juárez.
Oaxaca City is only four and a
half hours from Mexico City via the new highway.
Currently, around a quarter of
a million habitants live in the capital city of Oaxaca.
The Church of Santo Domingo opened
for worship in 1608 and is one of the best examples of baroque architecture in
Mexico.
IT is shown to the left. Just a short distance from the Hotel Fortin Plaza in central Oaxaca.
The Hotel Fortin Plaza is 15 minutes from downtown and 15 minutes from the Oaxaca airport.
The happy tourist to the right of the interior of the church is happy staying at Fortin Plaza in central Oaxaca. And happy she got a good deal with CancunSteve..
If she enters just the right portal she will be lost in another time and place of mideval enchantement.
To demonstrate just click anywhere on the image to the left.
Now using your arrow keys move the happy girl into the boroque courtyard and try to find that magic portal into the time warp into that magical mideval past.
When you've found it she will dissapear into this magical time and place as you will.
The genealogical tree of Santo Domingo de Guzmán (founder of the Order)
is awesome. It is done in gilded and polychrome plasterwork upon the ceiling
. The arched vault of the main
nave is also spectacular and has thirty-six paintings depicting passages from
both the Old and the New Testament. Oaxacan artists rebuilt the splendid, gilt
baroque area in 1959. The eighteenth-century Capilla del Rosario (annexed to
the church) is an architectural jewel dedicated to the Virgin of the same name.
Within it there are paintings of the Virgin and of Christ. The joyful, painful,
and glorious “mysteries” of the rosary are depicted upon the walls of the
church, and upon the ceiling of the choir.
Today the ex-convent houses an excellent museum run by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). It often hosts folk art exhibits and has an ethno-botanical garden that has tours in both Spanish and English.
Single or
Double room
70
Triple room
84
single or double room holiday periods
145
Triple room holiday periods
190
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