Los Cabos’s Cultural Pavilion to Celebrate Mexico’s Bicentennial

On September 16th Mexico is celebrating memorable 200 years of independence. While the whole country is preparing for celebrations one way or the other, Los Cabos will be celebrating the Bicentennial with the revelation of Cultural Pavilion. The Pavilion is the first building of it’s kind in the state of Baja California Sur and aims to cultivate the artistic and cultural expressions of this particular region of Mexico.

Located along the Cabo San Lucas Marina with beautiful views of the iconic El Arco, the Cultural Pavilion will be compromised of six buildings upon completion. The project is meant to create a unified space where residents and tourists alike can enjoy traditional Mexican concerts, dances, art exhibits and expositions, international seminars and much more. The Arts and Biodiversity Pavilion, the first of several buildings to open to the public, will be unveiled in September 2010.

“We are honored that Los Cabos was chosen as the building site for this exciting project,” said Gonzalo Franyutti De La Parra, President of the Los Cabos Convention & Visitors Bureau, “The goal behind the Cultural Pavilion is to promote and preserve the Mexican culture and to further attract visitors to this premiere vacation destination.”

Once completed, the Cultural Pavilion will feature theatres (both closed and open-air), shopping centers, cinemas, a museum, library and restaurants.

The new Cultural Pavilion has been raising many questions and eyebrows; at least for 3 things:

1) The cost: it will cost around $40 mio MXN pesos (current information)

2) The size of the building – it is seems that it doesn’t obey any rules as other hotels and beach side buildings have: the Pavilion is much higher than any adjacent hotel/building and it blocks many views of the homes in the Pedregal de Cabo San Lucas and surrounding areas to the marina.

3) (FREE) Parking space – We do hope the Pavilion will offer plenty of (free?) parking space; many of you will remember that on the location of the Pavilion there was the only free big parking lot in Cabo San Lucas.

Source: Los Cabos Convention & Visitor’s Bureau press release, comments by ESCAPES.

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