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In a broad high valley about 60 miles southeast of Mexico City is a city known by many years as: City of Angels, City of Tiles, but today we know it as simply Puebla. (www.puebla.net.mx)

Established in 1531, Puebla was the principal city of colonial Mexico. Puebla’s appearance is the most European of all colonial cities. By 1539, Puebla had a university and was on its way to becoming well-known throughout Mexico for milling, textiles, exquisitely decorated pottery and tiles, and for the architectural beauty of its buildings.

For the first time students at the University of Delaware will have the opportunity to experience life with Mexican families in the beautiful area of Puebla. Hosted by the University of Las Americas (UDLA), one of the two most prestigious universities in Mexico, you will have the opportunity to enter in an intensive Latin America program for 15 weeks.

The program includes an intensive cultural itinerary, so you will be exposed to archaeology (visiting the beautiful Aztec ruins), textiles (visiting Indigenous communities and their arts and crafts), painting (visiting all The Muralists of Mexico) with a team of experts you will visit excavations, ruins, convents, and the unforgettable churches built around 1600.

You will visit Pyramid Cholula, Popo Volcano, Streets of Candies, House of Dolls, Santa Monica Museum, Rosario Chapel (in full gold!), Artists Quarters, and one of the then most impressive museums in prehispanic art, The Amparo Museum. Music, excavations, literature, and three weekend excursions to Mexico city, Taxco and Oaxaca, will be part of your itinerary, as you are the first to arrive to University of Las Americas with a unique trip full of magic!

This program is a gem. Don’t miss this once in a life time opportunity!

Accommodations: Students will live in homestay settings. Breakfast and dinners are provided at the homestay, and lunch will be taken on campus in the very modern University (UDLA) cafeteria.

Study abroad at the University of Delaware is highly competitive. See here for an overview of the acceptance process. If you are not selected for your first choice program, we recommend moving your application and deposit to another program (by emailing your request to studyabroad@udel.edu).

UD students pay all program fee deposits by direct bank transfer via this website: http://www.udel.edu/studyabroadpayments. Non-UD students should send a check, payable to the University of Delaware, to CFIS, Elliott Hall, 26 East Main Street, Newark, DE 19716. Credit card payments are not accepted.

	DE Resident	Non-DE Resident
Final Tuition based on current year	3307	8385
Estimate Program Fee	3600	3600
UD Registration & Activities Fee	0	0
Estimate Total	6907	11985

Please note that final program fees are subject to change until the group's departure date. Final program fees may be increased due to airline taxes, fuel surcharges, exchange rates, or changes in the group size.