Mexico Pavilion and Walk Trough and Pov ride at Epcot Center and ride Mexico is an Epcot World Showcase pavilion at Walt Disney World featuring the Gran Fiesta Tour boat ride, several restaurants and a tequila bar, and gift shops. In this post, we’ll share tips and info on shopping, dining, and attractions in the Mexico pavilion.
We’ll mainly focus on the Mexico pavilion’s shopping and architecture, since we detail Gran Fiesta Tour, entertainment, and dining in other posts. We think shopping is one of the overlooked aspects of World Showcase; many guests assume that if they don’t want to buy anything, the shops don’t hold a lot of appeal.
While our past installments in this series have focused on gift shops because we think they are oft-overlooked aspects of World Showcase, that probably is not true here. About half (maybe a little more) of the Mexico pavilion’s shopping is in an open-air marketplace that guests must pass by on their way to La Cava del Tequila, San Angel Inn Restaurant, and Gran Fiesta Tour…
Nevertheless, let’s take a look around the Mexico pavilion. We’ll examine its architecture, its placement in World Showcase, dining, shopping, and more
Mexico is an Epcot World Showcase pavilion at Walt Disney World featuring the Gran Fiesta Tour boat ride, several restaurants and a tequila bar, and gift shops. In this post, we’ll share tips and info on shopping, dining, and attractions in the Mexico pavilion.
We’ll mainly focus on the Mexico pavilion’s shopping and architecture, since we detail Gran Fiesta Tour, entertainment, and dining in other posts. We think shopping is one of the overlooked aspects of World Showcase; many guests assume that if they don’t want to buy anything, the shops don’t hold a lot of appeal.
While our past installments in this series have focused on gift shops because we think they are oft-overlooked aspects of World Showcase, that probably is not true here. About half (maybe a little more) of the Mexico pavilion’s shopping is in an open-air marketplace that guests must pass by on their way to La Cava del Tequila, San Angel Inn Restaurant, and Gran Fiesta Tour…
Nevertheless, let’s take a look around the Mexico pavilion. We’ll examine its architecture, its placement in World Showcase, dining, shopping, and more.
ARCHITECTURE
EPCOT Center was laid out with Canada and Mexico Pavilions flanking the entrances to World Showcase to show harmony with our geographic neighbors to the north and south. Such a gesture is fitting of the optimism of the original park, but in the political climate three-plus decades later, seems almost quaint.
This section on architecture is not as interesting as the other World Showcase pavilions, if only because there’s one principle structure in Mexico, the 36-foot pyramid. However, just as with other pavilions, this is a pastiche of Mesoamerican architectural influences.
The primary of these is El Castillo, the Temple of Kukulkan. This pyramid was built by the Mayans sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries at the Chichen Itza archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán. Each of El Castillo’s four sides features a 91-step stairway plus the final step to the pyramid’s top, for a total of 365 steps, equal to the number of days in the Mayan calendar.
Mexico is an Epcot World Showcase pavilion at Walt Disney World featuring the Gran Fiesta Tour boat ride, several restaurants and a tequila bar, and gift shops. In this post, we’ll share tips and info on shopping, dining, and attractions in the Mexico pavilion
