Xanenetla Neighborhood

The Xanenetla district, in Puebla

The Xanenetla district is one of the oldest and most colourful of Puebla, renowned for its magnificent murals. The Puebla audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this working-class district transformed into an open-air museum by street art.

The district of the murals

You arrive here in the heart of the Xanenetla district, renowned throughout the town for its magnificent murals. Very different from the others, this district was formerly a place where the natives came to extract the clay used to make the bricks and the adobes that built a large part of Puebla, and its very name evokes this ancestral activity. Long a working-class and modest district, sometimes on the margins, Xanenetla has known a true renaissance thanks to a great project of street art: its walls have been covered with colourful frescoes, made by artists, that have made of it a true open-air museum. These murals, mixing traditional motifs, scenes of local life, mythological figures and contemporary creations, have given back pride and life to the district, and today attract numerous visitors. Located not far from the old ramparts and the historic centre, Xanenetla offers an authentic plunge into the working-class and creative Puebla. A colourful district and an open-air museum, Xanenetla is a fine stop of the discovery of the town.

What to see

Here you wander in one of the oldest districts of Puebla, where the clay of the bricks of the town was formerly extracted, transformed into an open-air museum by a great project of street art: its walls are covered with colourful frescoes mixing traditional motifs, local scenes and contemporary creations, that have given back pride and life to the district. Xanenetla is a colourful district of Puebla. It is a fine stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Xanenetla district lies near the old ramparts, on the edge of the historic centre of Puebla, reachable on foot. It is a public district freely accessible; there you discover the frescoes along the streets. It is best to explore it during the day to fully enjoy the murals.

Why is the Xanenetla district of Puebla famous?

For its magnificent murals: this old district, where the clay of the bricks of the town was formerly extracted, has been transformed into an open-air museum by a great project of street art, its walls being covered with colourful frescoes that have given back pride and life to it.

Where is the Xanenetla district in Puebla?

Near the old ramparts, on the edge of the historic centre of Puebla, in Mexico.