Touristic Sites
Tampico's
Historical Downtown

The Centro Histórico de Tampico (Tampico’s Historical Downtown) with its beautiful buildings of French architecture very similar to those in New Orleans, reflect the prosperity lived during the Porfiriato (1877-1911) and the oil boom era known as the Golden Era (1907-1936).

It is called “Historic” since “The Victory of Tampico of 1829” took place here, a year where the Mexican troops won over the foreign invasion commanded by brigadier Isidro Barradas.  This event marked the ending of the Mexican Independence movement.  That was why on September the 11th of the year 2005, the State Congress granted this city the rank of “Heroic City and Port of Tampico”.

The beautiful buildings that once accommodated stores such as exports and imports businesses suffered adaptations that changed their original physiognomy.  In 1991, responding to the authority’s worries and private initiative, a catalog was made by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) and the Institute of Fine Arts (Instituto de Bellas Artes) which contained of 217 buildings of the XIX and XX centuries with historic and architectural value.  These organisms also formulated the regulations for the buildings’ rescue.

In 1993, the Historical Downtown was declared “Hereditary Zone of Historic and Artistic Monuments” and in 1997 the Fideicomiso del Centro Histórico de Tampico (a trust for Tampico’s Historical Downtown) was created with the purpose of rescuing this priceless buildings and give the Tampico’s downtown a suitable image.  This task has been taking place successfully along the years in which a great investment has been made to rescue and renovate more buildings and town squares.

 

 

  

 

Arms Square

 

Liberty Square