Mexico City Sightseeing

Local Sights

Danza del Venado

Ballet Folklorico
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Directions Palace of Fine Arts
Description 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
Directions Plaza de San Patricio
Description 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
Directions Londres # 247 esquina Allende - Coyoacan
Description 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
Directions Atop a hill in Chapultepec Park
Description 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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Directions Plaza Solidaridad, Centro Histórico
Description 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
Directions Plaza Santa Cecilia
Description 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
Directions Avenida Revolución # 1608, San Angel
Description Houses private collection of works by Siqueiros, Rivera, Orozco and Gerzso

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Tamayo
Directions Paseo de la Reforma y Gandhi
Description 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
Directions Puente de Alvarado # 50 - Tabacalera
Description 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
Directions Altavista # 50 - San Angel Inn
Description 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
Directions Avenida Mexico 5843 - La Noria
Description 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
Directions Rio Churubusco # 410 - Coyoacan
Description 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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Directions Reforma Avenue in Chapultepec Park
Description 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
Directions Reforma Avenue in Chapultepec Park
Description Houses permanent collections of 20th Century Mexican art as well as Frida Kahlo's "The Two Fridas"

Palace of Fine Arts
Directions Juarez and Eje Central
Description 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
Directions Cerro del Tepeyac - Peralvillo Area
Description 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
Directions 50 miles east of Mexico City on highway to Pachuca.
Description "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.