But Mexicans know otherwise. Fronting the sea, Veracruz offers miles of blacksand beach, and plenty of hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, and shops for whiling away the hours. Theyve long viewed Veracruz as choice tourism destination. Theres not lot of variety in the architectural style, and the development is new, so many houses are not yet occupied. But the streets are wide and welllaidout, the area is clean, and landscaping is underway. Veracruzboth the city and the stategets extremely short shrift in Englishlanguage guidebooks Ive seen.

Theres not lot of variety in the architectural style, and the development is new, so many houses are not yet occupied. One such development, called Las Lomas, has twostory, threebedroom houses with attached garage in the 180,000 to 200,000 range. Theyve helped fuel construction boomand with it rising real estate prices in both Veracruz and in Boca del Rothough as little as mile from the coast roadare several small gated housing developments that offer competitively priced modern housing. Fronting the sea, Veracruz offers miles of blacksand beach, and plenty of hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, and shops for whiling away the hours.

One such development, called Las Lomas, has twostory, threebedroom houses with attached garage in the 180,000 to 200,000 range. Veracruzboth the city and the stategets extremely short shrift in Englishlanguage guidebooks Ive seen. Theyve long viewed Veracruz as choice tourism destination. Theres not lot of variety in the architectural style, and the development is new, so many houses are not yet occupied. But the streets are wide and welllaidout, the area is clean, and landscaping is underway.