Mexico City

Mexico City is the oldest metropolis of America, is located at an altitude of 2,240 meters and is sheltered by the volcanoes Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, with an enviable climate of "22 ° C" 71.6° F, "La Ciudad de Mexico" is one of the most large cities in size and population of the world. Mexico City, also known as the City of Palaces, has two areas designated as World Heritage by UNESCO: The Historic Center of Beautiful Historic and Religious Buildings, such as the Metropolitan Cathedral and the National Palace with spectacular murals and mural paintings by Diego Rivera close to the majestic Palace of Fine Arts, the site of cultural and artistic heritage. And Xochimilco, considered by many as the "Venice of Mexico" for its beautiful canals that can be traveled aboard a "trajinera" (wooden boat decorated with flowers).

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₪ Mexico City Touristic Neighborhoods

Mexico City have a plenty neighborhoods known as "colonias". Each with its own identity and history and big offer of hotels, restaurants, bars, parks, museums, parks, markets, activities and attractions and cultural centers. We give you a sample of the most representative and tourist of this great metropolis.

₪ Historic Center of Mexico City

El Centro Histórico de la ciudad de México, is an important tourist magnet of Mexico and Latin America, with a pre-Hispanic and colonial past, it was also center of the old Tenochtitlán founded in 1325 and after the conquest in 1521 it was rebuilt by the Spaniards in the 15th century. In it are concentrated cultural treasures and architectural gems such as the Templo Mayor excavations and museum, the Metropolitan Cathedral, the National Palace, the Old City Hall, el Palacio de las Bellas Artes, the National Museum of Art, the Palace of Iturbide, la Casa de los Azulejos, la torre Latino, and many more spread out towards the 4 cardinal points for several blocks and about 1,500 buildings, including temples, museums, hotels, restaurants, food stores, shops, galleries, theaters and cultural centers The Historic Center of Mexico City and Xochimilco are World Cultural Heritage by of UNESCO.

₪ Coyoacán

Coyoacán in Náhuatl means "The Place of Coyotes" was the site that Hernán Cortés chose to build his Palace and has been a key in the history of Mexico. In modern Mexico, it became the meeting place for intellectuals and artists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, Dolores del Río, El "Indio" Fernández among several others. Currently Coyoacán combines a provincial air and all the proposals of the city with excellent restaurants, bars, cantinas, museums, markets and cultural sites. Highlights include its iconic coyote fountain, the Hidalgo Garden and its famous Kiosko Frances French kiosk, the Frida Kahlo Museum or "Casa Azul", the Red House or "La Casa de la Malinche" and the National Museum of Popular Cultures. as well as its historic buildings such as Casa Alvarado, the old tram station, the Church of San Juan Bautista in the main square. And of course its famous cantinas and restaurants such as the Guadalupana, the El Jarocho coffee shop, Los Danzantes restaurant, "Los Helados Siberia" ice creams and "La Puerta del Sol" bar.

₪ Polanco

Polanco is an important cultural and business area of Mexico City, this residential project began at the end of the 30's on the grounds of La Hacienda de los Morales. Polanco has beautiful tree-lined avenues with luxury mansions of large front gardens and Patios in the back and residences in the Californian style. The cosmopolitan aspect of Polanco comes from the immigrants of Spaniards, Jews, Lebanese, Europeans and other international immigrants and its tourist and cultural attractions. Polanco is surrounded by excellent museums and magnificent attractions such as El Castillo de Chapultepec and its National Museum of History, the National Museum of Anthropology, the Museum of Modern Art, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, the Soumaya Museum. Another focal point of Polanco is la Avenida Mazaryk and its restaurants, bars, boutiques and its emblematic shopping centers such as Polanco Pavilion, Antara Shopping Center, Carzo Plaza and its diverse and luxurious hotels

₪ Condesa-Hipodromo

La Condesa is a neighborhood with almost 100 years of existence, before it was the Condesa Hippodrome and has two iconic parks in the city; the Parque Mexico - Park and the Parque España - Spain Park. In its surroundings, you will be able to discover Mexican and international restaurants, food stalls, ice cream parlors and countless bars and cafes. Ideal to enjoy a quiet afternoon or a good tequila with friends, for its bohemian and distinguished atmosphere, its tree-lined streets house interesting boutiques and buildings with art deco style of high architectural value such as thebuildings Edificio Jardines, Edificio Basurto the Cultural Centre Bella Época and la Plaza Condesa. In its main streets such as Amsterdam, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Michoacan, there are several restaurants with Arabic, Mediterranean, European, Latin American and traditional food, as well as charming boutiques, bookstores, and various shops.

₪ Roma

La colonia Roma Norte and Sur was built at the beginning of the 20th century and took from the old Hacienda de la Romita, with sumptuous mansions of art nouveau, belle epoque, art deco and classical, its avenues and streets were also drawn to the old man's apartment continent with a central ridge surrounded by trees and at the center, classical fountains and sculptures such as the Plaza Rio de Janeiro, which at the center has a bronze replica of Michelangelo's David and Plaza Madrid, which has a replica of the Las Cibeles fountain, donated by the Spanish community. La Roma is colloquially known and also houses a modern cultural corridor. Among its main attractions are the Casa Lamm Cultural Center, the Balmori Building in front of the Casa Lamm, the Casa de las Brujas or the Rio de Janeiro Building, the OMR Gallery and the Salón of the Mexican Plastic, the House of the State of Quintana Roo and the Church Nuestra Señora del Rosario among others.

₪ San Angel

Neighborhood of cobbled streets and old colonial houses, with artistic atmosphere and bohemian flavor, this barrio offers its visitors buildings of great architectural and cultural value as well as a great variety of cultural events, restaurants, bars and bazaars. Among which stand out the Carrillo Museum Gil, the Convent of Carmen built in 1624 and the del Carmen Convent Museum with pieces of Novohispano art from various colonial buildings, the 19th century Grand San Ángel mansion with attractive boutiques and galleries or enjoy its wonderful gastronomic offer, the Plaza San Jacinto and the Church of San Jacinto with its Bazaar on Saturday, the Casa Estudio Diego Riviera Museum, the Carrillo Gil Art Museum and the Soumaya Museum with Van Gogh, Degas, Monet and others artist paintings in la "Plaza Loreto" shopping mall.

₪ Santa Fe

Santa Fe is one of the most modern and avant-garde areas of Mexico and Latin America, located to the south west of the city by the exit to the highway for the city of Toluca. Important corporate and financial companies of both national and transnational have settled in this area, and around it modern residential developments, commercial, universities, schools, hotels and restaurants. Among those stand out, the Shopping Center Santa Fe, the largest in Mexico City, the Plaza Zéntrica where the new Santa Fe Banamex Theater is located, the Patio Santa Fe , the Iberoamerican University, the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Monterrey ITESM and a number of modern buildings a few kilometers from the National Park of the Desierto de los Leones.

₪ Nature Landscapes & Attractions

₪ Xochimilco

Xochimilco is a canals network that connect artificial islands "chinampas" with main land and testifies to the efforts of the Mexicas "Aztecs" to build a habitat in the midst of an unfavourable environment. Built since the 16th century and during the colonial period, Xochimilco feature urban and rural structures that have been conserved in an outstanding way.

₪ Bosque de Chapultepec, "Natural City Park"

Chapultepec is one of the largest city parks in Mexico and the Western Hemisphere, with a rock hill in the center and a Castle on his top. In the colonial period, Chapultepec Castle becoming the official residence of Mexican heads of state. El bosque de Chapultepec is considered the first and most important of Mexico City's "lungs", with trees that replenish oxygen to the Valley of Mexico. The park area has been inhabited and considered a milestone since the pre-Hispanic era, when it became a withdraw for Aztec sovereigns.

₪ Desierto de los Leones, National Parc

The National park is considered to be the oldest protected biosphere in Mexico, Desierto de los Leones Park is located entirely within the limits of the Federal District in the Sierra de las Cruces mountain range and represents fifteen percent of the Valley of Mexico area, with a relatively cold and damp climate. Forested with pines, holms oaks, oyamels and brooks, gorges and falls that conserving its fresh water springs to supply Mexico City.

₪ Night Life

Mexico City offers an attractive and diverse nightlife with an amazing number of bars, nightclubs, clubs, restaurants and entertainment centers for all tastes and pockets with the internationally well known Mexican "pachanga" party. Among the most recommended areas to go out and have fun, dancing, dining or just strolling are: La Condesa and La Roma, one of the areas with more "urban" and "hipster" bars and restaurants, with terraces, music in I live, excellent DJs. Polanco and Santa Fe, two exclusive sites in the city with elegant and sophisticated and elegant clubs and bars with giant screens, laser and color rays with renowned DJs, but a great diversity of bars and restaurants of good level. The Zona Rosa with a wide variety of nightclubs with a private atmosphere, friendly area with bars with gay shows, as well as karaoke bars and lounge concept where you can have a drink and have a good time. Insurgentes Avenue, one of the largest avenues in the world, which crosses the city from North to South, here is a large number and variety of restaurants, bars and nightclubs literally for everyone, from cumbia, salsa and bachata to exclusive nightclubs and fashionable nightclubs. Coyoacan with a wide variety of cantinas, bars, restaurants and cultural events and friendly people this area is ideal to enjoy the lounges and cantinas and have a drink or an artisanal beer and just enjoy the place. Historic Center and the Plaza Garibaldi gives up the mariachi in the city, with several traditional bars and restaurants such as the octogenarian Tenampa.

Theater, Concerts and Cultural Events

The theater is a must stop in Mexico City, there are theaters with old and recognized tradition such as the Polyforum Theater, the Theather Insurgentes , the Teatro Helénico or the Theather Manolo Fábregas, among others. Mexico City is known for the great variety of Concerts and Cultural Events of national and international artists, the Auditorio National, the Telmex Cultural Center, the Foro Sol, the Palacio de los Deportes, and the public free events in the Zócalo Capitalino are some of the places in which practically acted all the most recognized artists of the international and national scene.

Top Activities and Attractions in Mexico City

National Museum of Anthropology

The National Museum of Anthropology contains one of the most spectacular collections of archeology and ethnography in the world and shows extraordinary pieces such as La Piedra del Sol in the museum's nucleus, the Colmeal Olmeca head, the giant statue of the rain god Tlaloc of about 170 tons and another spectacular one of the Coatlicue 'the mother of all the gods' a giant of Tula of 4.6 meters of height between many many more of incomparable originality and value of the mesoamericanas cultures.

Coyoacan & Frida Kahlo Museum

Coyoacán is a well-to-do place of history and art in Mexico city. With its pretty public places, historic buildings, parks, countless museums, cafés, restaurants, bookstores and markets to come across its history and get on a extraordinary journey. The Blue House or La Casa Azul is a historic house museum the birthplace of Kahlo where she grew up, and then lived with Diego Rivera now converted in art museum dedicated to her work and life, some Diego Rivera works and pre-Hispanic artifacts and folk art. Located Coyoacán.

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Palacio de Bellas Artes

The Palacio de Bellas is one of the greatest representatives and promoters of culture in Mexico since its conception in 1904 and inauguration in 1934. It has been the home of major cultural events such as the concerts of the National Symphony Orchestra, the National Dance Company, the National Opera Company and the National Theater Company, among others. Its beautiful architecture and details such as the beautiful curtain of glass mosaics made by Tiffani and the murals made by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, among other muralists, who tell the national and universal history.

Chapultepec Castle

The hill of Chapultepec has been an emblematic place since pre-Hispanic times and its Castle has had a long history in our country: Sacred place for the Aztecs and place of the pools and baths of Moctezuma, in its viceregal period a hermitage of San Miguel Arcángel was built, with its aqueduct and the construction of the first stage of the castle in 1785. The Castle of Chapultepec turned into a military college resists the bombing of the United States. In the Second Mexican Empire, Maximiliano and Carlota de Hamburgo were established the Castle as his residence, the Castle of Chapultepec became the official residence in the Porfiriato and it housed Porfirio Díaz, Francisco I. Madero, Venustiano Carranza, among others political figures, a part of the building was converted in the astronomical observatory. and finally in 1944 it becomes the headquarters of the National Museum of History.

Ciudad Universitaria

The National Autonomous University of Mexico - UNAM, was built during the 1950s Designed by architects Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral and located in Coyoacán borough. La UNAM have forty faculties and institutes, the Olympic Stadium, the Cultural Center, the Central Library, an ecological reserve. CU was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007 by UNESCO. On Sundays capitalinos visit its open places popular with families to explore its gardens and patios that cover most of its 1,000 hectares. The Rectorate Tower and the Central Library square-shaped buildings are adorned by murals made by David Alfaro Siqueiros and Juan O'Gorman famous Mexican muralists.

Murales de Diego Rivera SEP

The enclosure that was initially a convent and a school for girls of high birth and now houses the Secretariat of Public Education, in its courtyards and corridors is reflected the mural work and the evolution of Diego Rivera's style, with its colorful folklore of a country with notorious social differences and its religious analogies with traditional images of the Mexican worker.

Metropolitan Cathedral, Zócalo & National Palace

The Plaza de la Constitución, known as El Zócalo, is named after the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 and is the second largest square in the world. For the Mexicas or Aztecs, it was also the political and religious center of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, It is currently surrounded by the Metropolitan Cathedral to the north, the National Palace to the east, the Antiguo Palacio del Ayuntamiento "Old City Hall Palace" and the Government Building to the south and the Merchants Portal and the Mexico hotel to the west as well as the northeast corner of the Zocalo, is the Museo del Templo Mayor.

Xochimilco

Xochimilco is located southeast of Mexico City, formerly part of the great lake of the Valley of Mexico. Their calls chinampas, islets created by humans in the time of the Mexica are communicated by channels used to pick up the crops more easily. Xochimilco means in Nahuatl "the place where the flowers grow". Their trajineras "wide canoes flat and adorned" became the primary means of transport in Xochimilco since the time of Porfirio Diaz and now fill with color and folklor this magnificent attraction that together with its Mariachis, flowers and canals make Xochimilco an exceptional place, Declared Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 1987.

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El bosque de Chapultepec

Chapultepec Forest "el Bosque de Chapultepec" is one of the largest city parks in the Western Hemisphere and most important "lungs" of Mexico City, with trees that replenish oxygen to the Valley of Mexico, with its over 686 hectares. Chapultepec is considered a landmark since the Aztec times and in the colonial period, Chapultepec Castle was built now Chapultepec houses the Museum of Anthropology, the Chapultepec Zoo, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, the Lake of Chapultepec, among others.

San Angel

San Angel is located south of Mexico City and has a picturesque and bohemian atmosphere, with beautiful cobblestone streets and beautiful old residences and buildings that attracts tourists and locals. San Ángel is famous for its Saturday bazaar, its handicraft market as well as the Plaza and Church of San Jacinto of the sixteenth century, the Casa del Risco and its Baroque fountain of the 18th century, the Bombilla Park, the Plaza del Carmen and the old municipal palace, now a cultural center, the San Sebastián chapel, with an amazing Baroque altarpiece and many other places that make San Ángel a place you have to visit.

Touristic buses circuits

Mexico City invites you to know its cultural and entertainment offer through cultural and thematic tours through tourist transport. Do not miss it! ₪ Turibus, The famous Turibus of Mexico City has four main circuits: Center, South, Polanco-Chapultepec and Basilica. In which you can go up and down, with the same ticket for the 19 cultural stops to enjoy the museums, public squares, shopping centers, neighborhoods and most important monuments of Mexico City. The Turibus of Mexico City has thematic tours such as "Cantinas" and "Sabores México", the "Christmas Night Circuit" and the Day of the Dead, the "Turiluchas" where you can enjoy a wrestling show and Turibus Museums, organized by the Ministry of Culture on the last Wednesday of each month For more details visit: www.turibus.com.mx ₪ Capital Bus, offers guided tours in three circuits: "Centro-Polanco", "Roma-Santa Fe" and "Temples" is its two-story tourist buses with Wi-Fi and from where you can appreciate in detail venues such as the Metropolitan Cathedral, Plaza Garibaldi and Basilica of Guadalupe as well as the best cultural and gastronomic areas. For more details visit: www.capitalbus.mx ₪ Tranvía Turístico, offers a trip dedicated to the culture and tradition of the most prominent neighborhoods of the city which you can visit through three routes: Coyoacán, Centro and Condesa, in this troli Inspired by the Mexican tram of the twentieth century. The tram offers two special routes: "De Mezcales for la Roma", and "From Cantina to Cantina for the Historical Mexico Downtown". For more details visit: www.tranviaturistico.com.mx

₪ Mexico City Top Museums

₪ National Museum of Anthropology

Situated in the Bosque de Chapultepec and considered the largest museum in Mexico, that it was akin to ‘a temple’, said by Octavio Paz, Nobel Prize in Literature. The 23 exhibition rooms of the Museum exhibit everything from the Maya to the Aztecs, the Toltecs to the Zapotecs, the iconic Aztec Calendar Stone. The entire collection includes more than seven million archaeological pieces and over five million ethnological pieces.

₪ National Museum of Art

The National Museum of Art preserves and exhibits Mexican art from the second half of the 16 century until 1954, the museum is installed in the old Communications and Public Works Palace and is one of the most representative buildings of the early XX century Mexican architecture, located in the heart of Mexico City´s downtown historic center. the "Munal" exhibit quality collections of the national and international art pieces.

₪ Museo Frida Kahlo, Casa Azul

The House where Frida Kahlo was born, lived and died, this museum transports you to the universe of Frida and within it are some of her most famous works such as Viva la Vida and Frida and her cesarean as well as diaries, dresses, mirrors and her famous bed and even its ashes. The house Blue itself is history, since it became the center of meeting of the bohemian life of the city in the decades of the thirty and forty and together with Diego Rivera in a carto is presented part of the muralist's pre-Hispanic collection.

₪ Museo Soumaya

Located in Nuevo Polanco and inaugurated on 2011 by Mexican President Felipe Calderón and Gabriel García Márquez. The avant-garde building was designed by Mexican architect Fernando Romero. Inside, the six floors of the museum are connected by elevators and an exposed spiral ramp with a big selection of works of art including sculptures from Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica era, Mexican art and an European old and modern masters such as Rodin, Dalí, Murillo and Tintoretto.

₪ Museo Nacional de Historia

The National Museum of History, located inside the Chapultepec Castle, is a historic site that narrates transcendental stages of the Mexican history. Among his memory are vestiges of the emperors Carlota and Maximiliano, as well as the Niños Héroes, Lázaro Cárdenas and Guadalupe Victoria the first Mexican president. In the Siqueiros room you will find the stage of New Spain until the modernity of the 20th century. The upper floor contains wardrobe, furniture and pompous European style decoration; and finally, there is the library and the emblematic belvedere where you can see the beautiful Paseo de la Reforma and the historic Angel of Independence.

₪ Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli

Built entirely of volcanic stone, it has alabaster-covered windows and more nooks and staircases inside it than the temple to a diabolic Mesoamerican deity, surrounded by city everywhere, is practically far from everything and getting there is already in itself an odyssey. The Anahuacalli was designed by Rivera himself with the advice of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, El Anahuacalli (which in Nahuatl means house of Anahuac) contains pre-Columbian pieces and works and sketches by the artist.

₪ Franz Mayer Museum

Franz Mayer Museum houses the finest collection of decorative arts in Mexico the museum is result of the collector's spirit and philanthropic mentality of Franz Mayer and presents temporary exhibitions of design and photography and permit to the visitors to expand an appreciation of decorative arts from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, with a mixture of origins, resources and manners. The disciplines included in silverwork collections, textiles, sculpture, painting, ceramics and furniture, as well as feather art pieces, ivory, glass, lacquer, tortoiseshell and enamel. The museum expose too a a wide selection of antique and rare books, as well as eight hundred different editions of Don Quijote de la Mancha.

₪ Papalote Museo del Niño

Located in Mexico in the Bosque de Chapultepec, Av Constituyentes 268 The museum Papalote Museo del Niño is focused in learning, communication, technology and art for children, as well as the working together interaction through interactive expositions of science.

₪ Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, "Museo De Arte Moderno", inagurated in 1964 house works of noted post-Revolutionary Mexican artists including Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo and modern artists. The museum’s architecture is a circular contemporary building with large domes. the museum is located in Paseo de la Reforma and Ghandhi in Chapultepec Park.

₪ Museo Antiguo Palacio de Iturbide

This former residence of the self-proclaimed Emperor Iturbide is one of the highest examples of 18th-century Mexican architecture of the Baroque style, considered one of the most outstanding examples of colonial architecture. Built with tezontle and the quarry, and declared a National Monument 1631; now Banamex Cultural Promotion headquarters.

₪ Museo Nacional de San Carlos

With origins in the viceregal workshops, religious and private collections, through the Royal Academy of San Carlos. Nowadays the National Museum of San Carlos preserves one of the most important collections of European art in our country. The architecture of this beautiful building has a clear neoclassical style. It shows a rational symmetry on the main façade with a small wink in the Baroque style. It is located at: Puente de Alvarado 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc delegation

Hotel Recommendations in Mexico City

Hotel recommendations in Mexico City:

₪ Best Mexico City Hotels

Four Seasons Mexico City

Four Seasons Hotel Mexico is a meeting place for international travelers and Mexico City’s society, ideal to connect with the lively Mexico city social scene in our restaurants, bars and a magnificent garden courtyard, perfect to leave behind the full of activity capital and pace into the exclusive world that this beautiful Colonial style property offers in its 240 deluxe rooms and luxury suites with a sunny rooftop spa, wellness and fitness areas with a stunning swimming pool.

Sheraton Mexico City Maria Isabel Hotel

Located in Paseo de la Reforma in the heart of Mexico City, just a few minutes from the Historic Center, Sheraton Maria Isabel offers a warmest and most welcoming place with comfortable spaces to relax and repose enjoying the beautiful places, flavors, neighborhoods, museums, and memorable experiences that Mexico City offers.

Gran Hotel Ciudad de México

Gran Hotel Ciudad de México is a distinguished Old World elegance property located in the Historical Center at side of the Zocalo Capitalino, notable for its historic sophistication, with remarkable Art Nouveau décor and a stunning lobby with a stained-glass ceiling, considered one of the top Mexican hotels.

The St. Regis Mexico City

The St. Regis Mexico City captures the diversity of the colonial-era grandeur and pre-Hispanic influence with unique avant-garde milieu, full of culture, fashion and gastronomy and the legendary St. Regis Butler service, to be had to accomplish every need with precision.

InterContinental Presidente Mexico City

InterContinental Presidente is located in Polanco one of the most vibrant and exclusive neighborhoods of Mexico City, just a walk to Presidente Masaryk Avenue's upscale designer boutiques, excellent restaurants, bars and cafes. And walking distance for the National Museum of Anthropology and Chapultepec Castle. This stunning view across Chapultepec Park and seven excellent restaurants & bars each with their own distinct decor, and comfortable and well equipped rooms interContinetal Presidente is a perfect option to enjoy your journey in Mexico City.