Los Remedios National Park

Los Remedios National Park occupies the volcanic hills at the western edge of Naucalpan and provides one of the largest green spaces accessible from the northwestern Mexico City metropolitan area. The park covers around 400 hectares of scrub and woodland, with footpaths, cycling routes, and areas for picnicking. On weekends it draws large numbers of Mexico City residents looking for accessible outdoor space.

The sanctuary of the Virgen de los Remedios, at the park's edge, is historically significant and architecturally interesting — a colonial-era church with baroque embellishments that sits atop a pre-Columbian pyramid base. The combination of colonial religious architecture built directly over indigenous ceremonial structures is characteristic of early colonial Mexico and is plainly visible here. The views from the sanctuary terrace extend over the metropolitan area.

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The Virgen de los Remedios, enshrined in the sanctuary at the park's edge, is the patron of Naucalpan and one of the oldest Marian images in Mexico — brought from Spain by conquistadors in 1521 and, according to tradition, hidden by the Aztecs and then miraculously rediscovered by a Nahua man in 1540. The sanctuary built around this image became a major pilgrimage site for both indigenous and Spanish populations in colonial Mexico, and remains so today.

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