A road trip through Mexico's oldest coffee trail, the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range in eastern Veracruz, leads to a less traveled route that often overlooks the most beautiful scenery in Mexico. The Pueblo Mágicos, a series of volcanic regions in eastern Mexico, are renowned for their role in growing and exporting coffee to the rest of Mexico. This route stretches roughly three hours and 127 kilometers from Coatepec to Cordoba and features one of Mexico's most underappreciated histories. The town of Coatepe, part of a volcanic region where coffee once originated in the continental Americas, is historically significant for being the site of the earliest mass cultivation of Arab coffee trees in the mainland Americas, brought over from the Caribbean islands by Spanish conquistadors and French smugglers in the early 1800s. The region’s top coffee-producer cafes include Bola de Oro, Don Justo and La Parroquia de Veracrouz, three of which date back to 1910 and have multiple branches in every surrounding town and city.