Even those who like American style shopping can find Wal-Mart, Price Club, Office Depot, Blockbuster Video, Ace Hardware, and more. The city has arts festivals and lots of cultural activities. El Centro is attractive. In fact, there are days when you think there s just too damn much shopping in Morelia. For some reason, city authorities have allowed vendors, literally by the thousand, to set up stalls selling everything you can think of all over El Centro.
Every street is covered and no sidewalk seems to escape.
It makes for enormous clutter and also makes the zocalo one of the least attractive and interesting of any Mexican city that we have seen. For example, during eight days in Morelia we never heard a single note of live music being played. Nonetheless, it s an extremely attractive city overall. The cathedral, which took 104 years to build, is a place you must visit if you go there. The nearby Casa de Artesanias features work by hundreds of artists, in all media.