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    Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitucion) - The Political and Cultural Heart of the City

    The Zocalo is one of the largest public squares in the world, measuring roughly 240 metres on each side. It sits on what was once the ceremonial centre of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, and today it remains the…

    Address
    Plaza de la Constitucion S/N, Centro Historico, Cuauhtemoc, 06000 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Zocalo station (Metro Line 2), direct access from station exit
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    Templo Mayor - Aztec Ruins in the Middle of Downtown

    Templo Mayor was the main temple of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, rediscovered by accident in 1978 when electrical workers hit a massive carved stone disc depicting the moon goddess Coyolxauhqui. The excavated ruins…

    Address
    Seminario 8, Centro Historico, Cuauhtemoc, 06060 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Zocalo station (Metro Line 2), 3-minute walk northeast
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    Palacio de Bellas Artes - Art Nouveau and Art Deco Under One Roof

    Palacio de Bellas Artes is Mexico's most important cultural venue, a building that took 30 years to complete due to the Mexican Revolution and engineering challenges caused by the soft lakebed soil beneath the city. The…

    Address
    Av. Juarez S/N, Centro Historico, Cuauhtemoc, 06050 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Bellas Artes station (Metro Lines 2 and 8), direct access
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    Museo Nacional de Antropologia - The Best Museum in Latin America

    The Museo Nacional de Antropologia is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico, spreading across 45,000 square metres inside Chapultepec Park. Its 23 exhibition halls trace Mesoamerican civilisation from the…

    Address
    Av. Paseo de la Reforma y Calzada Gandhi S/N, Chapultepec Polanco, Miguel Hidalgo, 11560 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Chapultepec station (Metro Line 1), 10-minute walk through the park, or Anthropologia Metrobus stop
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    Bosque de Chapultepec - A 1,695-Acre Urban Forest

    Chapultepec Park is one of the Western Hemisphere's largest urban parks, covering 686 hectares across three sections. The first section - closest to the Metro station - holds the zoo (free admission), the Museo Nacional…

    Address
    Bosque de Chapultepec, Primera Seccion, Miguel Hidalgo, 11580 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Chapultepec station (Metro Line 1), direct park access from station exit
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    Castillo de Chapultepec - The Only Royal Castle in the Americas

    Chapultepec Castle perches on top of Chapultepec Hill at 2,325 metres above sea level, making it one of the highest-altitude royal residences ever built. Construction began in 1785 as a viceregal summer house and the…

    Address
    Bosque de Chapultepec, Primera Seccion, Miguel Hidalgo, 11580 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Chapultepec station (Metro Line 1), 20-minute walk uphill through the park
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    Museo Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul) - The Blue House in Coyoacan

    Casa Azul is the cobalt-blue house where Frida Kahlo was born in 1907, lived with Diego Rivera, and died in 1954. Converted into a museum in 1958, the rooms preserve the couple's personal belongings, Frida's wheelchair…

    Address
    Londres 247, Del Carmen, Coyoacan, 04100 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Viveros/Derechos Humanos station (Metro Line 3), 15-minute walk south
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    Xochimilco Floating Gardens - Ancient Canals and Trajinera Rides

    Xochimilco is the last surviving trace of the lake system that once covered the entire Valley of Mexico. The canals weave through chinampas - artificial islands built by pre-Hispanic farmers to grow crops on the shallow…

    Address
    Embarcadero Nuevo Nativitas, Xochimilco, 16070 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Xochimilco station (Tren Ligero from Tasquena, Metro Line 2), 10-minute walk to the embarcadero
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    Teotihuacan Pyramids - The City of the Gods Beyond CDMX

    Teotihuacan was one of the largest cities in the ancient world, home to an estimated 125,000 people at its peak around 450 CE. The site covers roughly 83 square kilometres, anchored by the 65-metre Pyramid of the Sun…

    Address
    San Juan Teotihuacan, Estado de Mexico, 55800
    Nearest transit
    Autobuses del Norte station (Metro Line 5) in Mexico City, then 1-hour bus to the site
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    Mercado de la Merced - The Largest Traditional Market in the City

    Mercado de la Merced occupies an entire city block east of the Historic Centre and is the largest traditional market in Mexico City. Thousands of stalls sell produce, dried chillies, mole pastes, fresh tortillas…

    Address
    Calle Rosario S/N, Merced Balbuena, Venustiano Carranza, 15810 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Merced station (Metro Line 1), 2-minute walk
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    Museo Soumaya - Carlos Slim's Free Art Collection in Polanco

    Museo Soumaya is impossible to miss - its curving aluminium-clad facade, covered in 16,000 hexagonal tiles, rises from Plaza Carso in the Polanco district like a warped silver column. The museum was funded by…

    Address
    Blvd. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303, Granada, Miguel Hidalgo, 11529 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    San Joaquin station (Metro Line 7), 15-minute walk, or Polanco Metrobus stop
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    Biblioteca Vasconcelos - A Cathedral of Books

    Biblioteca Vasconcelos opened in 2006, designed by architect Alberto Kalach as an open, light-filled space that challenges every expectation of what a public library should look like. Transparent walls, steel shelving…

    Address
    Eje 1 Nte. S/N, Buenavista, Cuauhtemoc, 06350 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Buenavista station (Metro Line B / Tren Suburbano), 3-minute walk
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    Lucha Libre at Arena Mexico - Masked Wrestling on a Friday Night

    Arena Mexico is the spiritual home of lucha libre, the masked professional wrestling tradition that has been a fixture of Mexican popular culture since the 1930s. Bouts feature tecnicos (heroes) against rudos (villains)…

    Address
    Dr. Lavista 197, Doctores, Cuauhtemoc, 06720 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Cuauhtemoc station (Metro Line 1), 10-minute walk south
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    Coyoacan Street Food and Mezcalerias - Tostadas, Churros, and Smoky Spirits

    Coyoacan is one of Mexico City's oldest neighbourhoods, and its food scene reflects centuries of culinary layering. The Mercado de Coyoacan, a covered market two blocks from the central plaza, is the best starting…

    Address
    Mercado de Coyoacan, Ignacio Allende S/N, Del Carmen, Coyoacan, 04100 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Viveros/Derechos Humanos station (Metro Line 3), 12-minute walk south
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    Paseo de la Reforma and Angel de la Independencia - CDMX's Grand Boulevard

    Paseo de la Reforma stretches 15 kilometres across Mexico City, modelled on the Champs-Elysees by Emperor Maximilian in the 1860s. The avenue's most recognisable landmark is the Angel de la Independencia (El Angel), a…

    Address
    Paseo de la Reforma S/N, Juarez, Cuauhtemoc, 06600 Mexico City
    Nearest transit
    Sevilla station (Metro Line 1), 5-minute walk to the Angel de la Independencia

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