The buildings, parks and plazas that define the capital, each with its own full guide: the history, the tickets, the opening hours and how long it really needs.
Alameda CentralBefore it was a park, this was where the Inquisition burned heretics. The Alameda Central — Mexico City's…Read the guide →Alvaro Obregon AreaAvenida Alvaro Obregon is the spine of Roma Norte, and walking it is one of the simplest pleasures…Read the guide →Anahuacalli MuseumMost people who visit Coyoacan head straight to the Blue House. We don't blame them -- Frida Kahlo's…Read the guide →Angel of IndependenceMexico City has no shortage of monuments, but only one gets called "El Angel" by practically everyone who…Read the guide →Avenida MasarykAvenida Presidente Masaryk is Polanco's main shopping boulevard and the closest thing Mexico City has to Rodeo Drive…Read the guide →Basilica de GuadalupeEvery year, somewhere between 20 and 30 million people visit the Basilica de Guadalupe in northern Mexico City.…Read the guide →Bazar SabadoEvery Saturday morning, a 17th-century colonial mansion in San Angel transforms into one of Mexico City's best artisan…Read the guide →Bella EpocaThe Centro Cultural Bella Epoca is what happens when Mexico City decides a 1920s cinema is too beautiful…Read the guide →Calle LiraCalle Lira is a quiet residential street in the San Angel area that offers something increasingly rare in…Read the guide →Casa BolaCasa de la Bola is one of Mexico City's strangest and most delightful small museums, a pink mansion…Read the guide →Casa de los AzulejosThe Casa de los Azulejos (House of Tiles) is one of those buildings that makes you stop mid-sidewalk…Read the guide →CCU UNAMThe Centro Cultural Universitario sits on the southern edge of UNAM's campus, and it's one of the most…Read the guide →CENARTThe Centro Nacional de las Artes -- CENART to everyone who actually goes there -- is Mexico's sprawling…Read the guide →Chapultepec CastleThere's exactly one royal castle in North America that was actually lived in by monarchs. It's not in…Read the guide →Chapultepec ParkChapultepec Park is one of the largest urban parks in the Western Hemisphere — over 680 hectares of…Read the guide →Chapultepec ZooMexico City has a zoo in the middle of its biggest park, and it doesn't charge admission. That…Read the guide →ChimalistacChimalistac is the kind of neighborhood that makes people say "I didn't know this existed" even when they've…Read the guide →Chinese ClockStanding on Avenida Bucareli, in the middle of a traffic island that most people walk past without a…Read the guide →Chopo MuseumThe Museo Universitario del Chopo is a building that looks like it belongs in a Victorian railway station,…Read the guide →Churubusco MuseumMexico has been invaded by foreign powers more times than most countries care to think about. The Spanish…Read the guide →Columbus MonumentThe Columbus Monument -- Monumento a Colon -- stands at the Glorieta de Colon on Paseo de la…Read the guide →Cuauhtemoc MonumentAt the intersection of Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida de los Insurgentes -- two of the most…Read the guide →Desierto de los LeonesThirty minutes west of Santa Fe's glass office towers, the air drops ten degrees, fog threads through pine…Read the guide →Diana the Huntress FountainIf you've ever driven, walked, or been stuck in traffic along Paseo de la Reforma, you've seen her.…Read the guide →Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Studio MuseumMost visitors to Mexico City make a beeline for the Frida Kahlo Museum in Coyoacan -- the famous…Read the guide →El AltilloTucked into the southern edge of Mexico City, between Coyoacan and the Pedregal, El Altillo is one of…Read the guide →Ermita BuildingThe Edificio Ermita is one of Mexico City's finest Art Deco buildings, a curved, commanding structure at the…Read the guide →Ex-Convent El CarmenThe Ex-Convento del Carmen in San Angel is a 17th century Carmelite monastery with beautiful gardens, colonial-era religious…Read the guide →French PantheonThe Panteon Frances de la Piedad is a hidden Victorian-era cemetery in the middle of Mexico City, a…Read the guide →Indianilla StationThe Centro Cultural Estacion Indianilla is one of those Mexico City places that most guidebooks skip and most…Read the guide →La CiudadelaLa Ciudadela is one of those Mexico City places that does triple duty. It's a historically significant building…Read the guide →Legislative AssemblyThe Legislative Assembly of Mexico City -- officially the Congreso de la Ciudad de Mexico since the 2018…Read the guide →Luis Barragan HouseThere are exactly two single-family houses in the world with UNESCO World Heritage status. One is the Rietveld…Read the guide →Metropolitan CathedralIt took 250 years to build Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral. Let that sink in. Construction started in 1573…Read the guide →Monumento a ObregonMexico City has monuments to heroes, monuments to ideas, and monuments to events. The Monumento a Obregon in…Read the guide →Moorish KioskIn a quiet residential plaza in the Santa Maria la Ribera neighborhood, surrounded by trees and park benches…Read the guide →Museo de Arte PopularThe Museo de Arte Popular -- MAP to regulars -- is one of Mexico City's most enjoyable museums,…Read the guide →Museo Experimental El EcoThere are museums in Mexico City that take up entire city blocks. The National Anthropology Museum could swallow…Read the guide →Museo JumexMuseo Jumex houses what is widely considered the most important private contemporary art collection in Latin America, displayed…Read the guide →National Anthropology MuseumThe Museo Nacional de Antropologia is the single best museum in Mexico. Not one of the best —…Read the guide →National Art Museum (MUNAL)Mexico City has an almost unreasonable number of art museums. You could spend a full week doing nothing…Read the guide →Palace of Fine ArtsA Rockefeller destroyed Diego Rivera's mural. Rivera painted it again, bigger, in the most beautiful building in Mexico.…Read the guide →Panteon de DoloresThe Panteon de Dolores is the largest cemetery in Mexico City, and one of the largest in the…Read the guide →Parque HundidoMost of Mexico City's parks sit at street level. Parque Hundido does not. This one drops below the…Read the guide →Parque MexicoParque Mexico is the green heart of Condesa, and there's a strong argument that it's the most pleasant…Read the guide →Parque Rio de JaneiroParque Rio de Janeiro is a small circular park in the heart of Roma Norte that manages to…Read the guide →Plaza Isabel la CatolicaPlaza Isabel la Catolica is a small, unassuming square in the Historic Center of Mexico City. It's not…Read the guide →Plaza San JacintoPlaza San Jacinto is the colonial heart of San Angel, a cobblestoned square surrounded by 17th and 18th-century…Read the guide →Polyforum SiqueirosDavid Alfaro Siqueiros spent the last years of his life working on a single piece of art. It…Read the guide →Purisimo Corazon ChurchThe church of the Purisimo Corazon de Maria sits in the Historic Center of Mexico City, one of…Read the guide →Revolution MonumentThe Monumento a la Revolucion is, at its core, a building that failed at being something else and…Read the guide →Sagrada Familia ChurchThe Parroquia de la Sagrada Familia is a parish church in Santa Maria la Ribera, one of Mexico…Read the guide →San Carlos MuseumMexico City has world-class museums covering pre-Columbian civilizations, colonial history, modern Mexican art, and revolutionary muralism. What it…Read the guide →San Fernando PantheonThe Panteon de San Fernando is a small, walled cemetery in the Historic Center of Mexico City, a…Read the guide →San Hipolito ChurchThe Iglesia de San Hipolito is a Baroque church on the edge of the Historic Center, near the…Read the guide →San Lorenzo ChurchThe Templo de San Lorenzo Martir is one of the Historic Center's lesser-known colonial churches, a Baroque building…Read the guide →Satellite TowersFive concrete towers, painted in bold primary colors, rising between 30 and 52 meters above a traffic island…Read the guide →Temple of San FernandoThe Temple of San Fernando is a Baroque church in the Historic Center of Mexico City, adjacent to…Read the guide →The Postal PalaceMost cities would put their post office in a concrete box with fluorescent lighting and call it a…Read the guide →The ZocaloEvery city has a main square. Mexico City's happens to be one of the largest in the world…Read the guide →Torre LatinoamericanaWhen the Torre Latinoamericana opened in 1956, it was the tallest building in Latin America. That record is…Read the guide →Vasconcelos LibraryThere's a building near the Buenavista train station that looks like it was designed by someone who thought…Read the guide →Viceroyship MuseumThe Museo Nacional del Virreinato at Tepotzotlan is the finest collection of colonial-era art in Mexico, housed in…Read the guide →XochimilcoXochimilco: The Last Canals of an Ancient Lake City Xochimilco is unlike anything else in Mexico City. Actually,…Read the guide →Zona RosaThe Zona Rosa is one of Mexico City's most distinctive neighborhoods, a compact grid of pedestrian streets and…Read the guide →