Welcome to Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta is one of Mexico's most popular tourist destinations - equally popular with both national and international visitors. Puerto Vallarta has been consistently voted by Conde Nast readers as one their top ten favorite international destinations for years. VirtualVallarta.com is your guide to this wonderful city and the surrounding regions and communities nearby - some within the Bay of Banderas and others a little farther away along Costa Vallarta. Puerto Vallarta really is the destination where Mexico comes to life, and there's a little something here for everyone!
Local News
Due to popular demand, El Arrayan, one of Puerto Vallarta’s most representative Mexican restaurants, will once again be sharing a few of their culinary secrets during a cooking class to take place on Monday, February 22th from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm.
Vallarta Botanical Gardens will host their 2nd annual Flower and Garden Show on February 23 - 28.
Stunning landscapes, delicious foods and warm welcomes cause visitors from all over the world to return to Banderas Bay time and time again.
Several of the most prestigious restaurants in Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit are gearing up to celebrate Valentine's Day with great promotions!
Municipality Dance Troupe Xiutla is not only an important cultural institution in Puerto Vallarta. Fifteen years after its inception, it is becoming a hotbed of folk dance teachers.
The government of Jalisco, in conjunction with the local Tourism Office, will set aside $1.2 million pesos to renovate the Mercado del Río Cuale’s outside appearance, a project that will commence immediately and will end no later than March 6.
The 5th Annual Puerto Vallarta Writers Conference will be held February 26-28, 2010, at Los Mangos Library.
Jalisco's Governor, Emilio Gonzalez Marquez, announced a new resort destination in Tomatlan, a municipality in Costalegre, south of Puerto Vallarta, in an area called Chalacatepec.
Bahia de Banderas Mayor Hector Paniagua recently met with the new U.S. consular representative in western Mexico, Daniel F. Keller.
EntreAmigos, a non-profit community development organization established in San Pancho to address social, economic and environmental problems arising from accelerated development, has recently inaugurated their brand new “bodega” community center at the entrance to this peaceful oceanside town an hour north of Puerto Vallarta in Riviera Nayarit.
