Mexico City Sightseeing

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Local Sights

Danza del Venado

Ballet Folklorico
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Address Palace of Fine Arts
Comment A magnificent show of regional mexican dances performed in their traditional dress. Colorful, festive and emotional. A must on a trip to Mexico City. Wednesday evening and Sundays.

Bazaar Sabado
Address Plaza de San Patricio
Comment A collection of shops open only on saturdays in a colonial building in the San Angel district. Fine cobble-stoned streets and a festive atmosphere.

Casa Azul de Frida Kahlo
Address Londres # 247 esquina Allende - Coyoacan Tel 554-5999
Comment Casa Azul - where Frida was born and died now houses a few of her paintings and personal articles of her daily life such as the colorful embroidered dresses she wore, the combs and brushes she used and photos of her family and friends.

Chapultepec Castle
Address Atop a hill in Chapultepec Park
Comment Once the home of Emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota, the castle is now a museum showing magnificent coaches, beds, sofas and other traditional furnishings from their reigning period.

Museo Mural Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera Mural Museum
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Address Plaza Solidaridad, Centro Histórico Tel 512-0754
Comment Small museum built to exhibit Diego Rivera's famous mural "A Sunday afternoon in the Alameda Park" after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake destroyed the Hotel del Prado - its original home.

Garibaldi Square
Address Plaza Santa Cecilia
Comment Enjoy the mariachi music of Mexico from one of the many bands that gather here to be taken to serenade a loved damsel.

Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
Address Avenida Revolución # 1608, San Angel Tel 550-5289
Comment Houses private collection of works by Siqueiros, Rivera, Orozco and Gerzso

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Tamayo
Address Paseo de la Reforma y Gandhi Tel 286-5889
Comment Rufino Tamayo's work displayed alongside that of other world class artists like Dali, Ernst, Miró and Warhol.

Façade of Museo de San Carlos

Museo de San Carlos
Address Puente de Alvarado # 50 - Tabacalera Tel 5566-8522
Comment Housed in a Colonial mansion built in the late 18th-early 19th centuries for the Conde de Buenavista, the Museo de San Carlos has a vast collection of European art from the 14th to early 20th centuries, including works by Van Dyck, Goya, Rubens and other Renaissance artists.

Museo Diego Rivera
Address Altavista # 50 - San Angel Inn
Comment A small museum at site where Diego and Frida lived and painted. Bedroom and other living space in original condition with period items.

Museo Dolores Olmedo
Address Avenida Mexico 5843 - La Noria Tel 555-1642
Comment The largest single collection of Frida Kahlo's work is housed in this private museum owned by one of Diego's intimate friends.

Museo Leon Trotsky
Address Rio Churubusco # 410 - Coyoacan Tel 658-8732
Comment A small museum in the house Trotsky occupied during his fateful exile to Mexico.

Tlaloc at Museum's Entrance.

Museum of Anthropology
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Address Reforma Avenue in Chapultepec Park
Comment This magnificent museum houses Pre-Columbian relics covering most of the Native populations found throughout Mexico. In Spring 1964, when Tlaloc - the Tolteca's Rain God was brought into Mexico City to be placed as the official "greeter", an unparalleled rain-storm unleashed over Mexico City in the "dry" season not experienced prior to that time, nor since.

Museum of Modern Art
Address Reforma Avenue in Chapultepec Park Tel 553-6233
Comment Houses permanent collections of 20th Century Mexican art as well as Frida Kahlo's "The Two Fridas"

Palace of Fine Arts
Address Juarez and Eje Central Tel 709-3111
Comment A magnificent structure made entirely from Carrara marble - so heavy it is sinking faster than the sinking city. Home of the world-famous Ballet Folklorico. Beautiful Tiffany glass curtain depicting a scene of the volcanoes outside Mexico City.

Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Address Cerro del Tepeyac - Peralvillo Area
Comment The present shrine, finished in 1976, is the third edition of the most visited place of worship in all of Mexico. Close to the site where La Virgen Morena appeared in 1531 before Juan Diego - a Nahuatl peasant. The cloak with the Virgin's image is framed and visible.

Nearby Sights

Pyramid of the Moon

Pyramids of Teotihuacan
Address 50 miles east of Mexico City on highway to Pachuca.
Comment "City of the Gods" home of the Teotihuacano culture. The Pyramids of the Sun and Moon and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl are impressive vestiges of this culture which predated the Aztecs and is linked to the Toltecs and Mayas.