WELCOME TO CUERNAVACA... THE CITY OF ETERNAL SPRING!

Live and study in the incomparable setting of warm days and cool nights amid a paradise of flowering trees and gardens where life is lived out-of-doors and Mexico's storied past meets you at every step.Cuernavaca is a casual city with lots of history. It attracts people who seek a sunny place for creative work or intellectual inquiry where they can find cultural stimulation and spirited conversations, take fascinating side trips and dance the night away. Residents have included Erich Fromm, Diego Rivera, Carlos Fuentes, Helen Hayes, Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo, Malcolm Lowry, Ivan Illich, Garbriel García Márquez, Barbara Hutton, Rufino Tamayo and David Alfaro Siqueiros.Located an hour's scenic drive south of Mexico City, Cuernavaca was founded seven centuries ago almost a mile high in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Today, an Aztec pyramid rises in a residential neighborhood, a half-hour from where Mesoamerican high priests at Xochicalco studied astronomy in 600 A.D. and arranged the calendar.

In 1532, Conquistador Hernán Cortés built his palace here...now a historical museum with a dramatic Diego Rivera mural. The cathedral, with a Sunday "Mariachi Mass", dates from 1528. Many 16th Century monasteries remain from the area's first Catholic missionaries.Until 1910, the State of Morelos was the third major cane sugar producer worldwide, after Hawaii and Puerto Rico, but peasants slaved without hope on the enormous sugar cane haciendas. When the Mexican Revolution began in 1910, most haciendas were burned to the ground and Revolutionary Leader Emiliano Zapata took up the peasant's plea for "Land and Liberty"! Zapata's village named Anenecuilco remains an hour away, as do several restored hacienda-hotels. Cuernavaca is a modern semitropical city with every amenity and service. Only 90 minutes away from Mexico City's international airport, it hosts a score of scientific research institutes, an industrial park with over one hundred industries, four universities and extensions of the National University of Mexico, and a global assortment of retired diplomats, business executives and government officials.

Recreation may be golf (four golf courses), tennis, bowling, horseback riding, racquetball, water sports, or at a spa or gymnasium, hiking Lagunas de Zempoala National Park, exploring the Grutas de Cacahuamilpa's extensive grottoes or watching life from a seat in the Zócalo, the central plaza. Day trips: Taxco, Xochicalco, Tepoztlán, Puebla, Chalma, old convents route; Acapulco is three hours by car.Cultural pursuits begin at Cortes' Palace or at 18th Century Borda Gardens for art, films, concerts, fiestas, puppet shows, other public events. Casa de la Torre-Brady Museum in a 16th Century convent has art and folk art collection and occasional foreign or classic films. State Ethnobotanical Garden at Casa del Olvido is former home of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (ruled 1864-1867). Bellas Artes, branch of national fine arts institution, has art classes, exhibitions. Amigos de la Música sponsors classical concerts. World Affairs Council-Mexico branch is here. Good stores for music, magazines, books and paperbacks.

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