Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
A neoclassical theatre in the historic centre, opened in 1866 behind a portico of Corinthian columns and named after the liberal general Santos Degollado. Its horseshoe auditorium has a ceiling painted with a scene from Dante's Divine Comedy; it is home to the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra.
A covered market of about 40,000 square metres next to the Hospicio Cabañas, officially Mercado Libertad, designed by Alejandro Zohn and opened in 1958. Its three floors hold stalls of food, fruit, clothing, leather, crafts and electronics, with cheap eateries on the upper level.
The seat of the government of Jalisco on the Plaza de Armas, a Baroque building completed in 1790. Above its main staircase José Clemente Orozco painted a mural of Miguel Hidalgo in 1937, and a museum on the upper floor covers the history of the state.
A museum of the INAH in an 18th-century seminary building facing the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres. Its rooms around a courtyard cover the palaeontology, archaeology and history of western Mexico, from a mammoth skeleton and shaft-tomb figures to colonial painting.
The cathedral of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara in the historic centre, begun in 1561 and consecrated in 1618, with neo-Gothic spires covered in yellow tiles added after earthquakes in the 19th century. It stands between four squares laid out in the shape of a cross.
A former orphanage and hospice founded by Bishop Juan Cruz Ruiz de Cabañas, built by Manuel Tolsá from 1805 around 23 courtyards and a domed chapel. The chapel carries José Clemente Orozco's murals of 1936–39, including The Man of Fire in the dome; it is now a museum and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
A circle of 17 fluted columns in a garden north of the cathedral, built from 1952 in honour of notable people of Jalisco. Bronze statues of writers, artists, politicians and scientists stand around it, and the remains of several of them lie in an urn chamber beneath.
A 19th-century cemetery in the historic centre, opened in 1848 and closed to burials in 1896, laid out by Manuel Gómez Ibarra behind a neoclassical portico. It is now a museum, visited by day among its tombs and arcades and on evening tours that tell the legends of the place.
A neo-Gothic church dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament, designed by Adamo Boari and built between 1897 and 1972. Its stained-glass windows came from France, and the clock in its tower has mechanical figures of the twelve apostles that come out at set hours.
A triumphal arch of pink stone over Avenida Vallarta, built in 1939–41 as the city's entrance on the new road from Mexico City and Morelia. Its double arch in a Baroque revival style carries the city's coat of arms, and a viewing platform sits on top.
A zoo opened in 1988 on the edge of the Huentitán canyon in the north-east of the city. Its sections by continent hold big cats, elephants, giraffes, primates, bears and birds, with an aviary, a herpetarium, a safari train and a cable car with views into the canyon.
A Franciscan sanctuary of the 17th century in the centre of Zapopan, about 7 km north-west of central Guadalajara. It keeps a small wooden figure of the Virgin brought from Spain in the 16th century, carried in a procession of hundreds of thousands every 12 October; a Huichol museum stands beside it.
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