Part 1

Narrator

- The capital Xalapa from state Veracruz is known as tenacious Veracruz or the city of
flowers.

- A city with one of the best and most varied climates of Mexico showing a trace of its
cloud forest.

- Where just under half a million people live.

- But not many know that is what lies beneath them.

Words from --- Interview with Daniel / Jesus / Omar

- Another hypothesis suggests that these tunnels connecting the cathedral to the outskirts
of the city other more going to the convent of San Francisco and another to lower the
present street Ursulo Galvan where another church.

- You could say that these tunnels had the function of that underground priests and
priests they contacted.

- Even if you could see it from the point of view during that period could be used for
smuggling.

- Those tunnels may conceal anything either political or religious.

Part 2

Most tunnels were underground way to channel the waters of the springs that gave rise to
the city in 1313, affirmed by José Luis Yanez Garcia researcher who did a scan of the
same 30 years ago.

After Mexico's independence in 1810, changes everything but the tunnels are still there,
Yanez Garcia stressed. How many they are and if they are divided, said some are located
in the area Xallitic and capture what is Xallapan, a source of sand; They pass under the
Infiernillo Alley, Juan Alvarez and Francisco I. Madero, and flow toward the center of the
city. Meanwhile, artificial tunnels are at the heart of the state capital.

And although he said they are closed to the public, you can arrange the permits from the
City to access them, "another way in is raising the sewers of the streets Juan Soto, Landero
y Coss, Xalapeños Illustres, there are a living crocodile while conducting research for 30
years. "
The researcher José Luis Yanez Garcia was one that explored the Cave of the Orchid in
1970, making it known in 1983. But that's another story.