Mexico City is a federation of villages. These are the barrios worth your walking hours, each one covered street by street.
Bazar SabadoEvery Saturday since 1960, the Plaza San Jacinto in San Angel has hosted one of Mexico City's best…Read the guide →Centro AlamedaMost visitors to Mexico City's Historic Center gravitate east, toward the Zocalo, the cathedral, and the ruins of…Read the guide →Chapultepec ZoneIf you look at a map of Mexico City and notice that enormous green rectangle on the western…Read the guide →Colonia del ValleColonia del Valle is the neighborhood that nobody writes travel guides about, and that's exactly why some of…Read the guide →Colonia JuarezIf you drew a triangle between Paseo de la Reforma, Avenida Chapultepec, and Avenida Bucareli, you'd have Colonia…Read the guide →CondesaCondesa is one of those neighborhoods that gets described in superlatives so often that the descriptions have lost…Read the guide →CoyoacanWhy Coyoacan Belongs on Every Mexico City Itinerary Coyoacan is the neighborhood that makes people rethink their entire…Read the guide →Historic CenterMexico City's Historic Center — the Centro Historico — is one of those places that makes you rethink…Read the guide →NarvarteNarvarte is the neighborhood your Mexican friends live in. Not the one they tell tourists to visit --…Read the guide →Nuevo PolancoNuevo Polanco is what happens when you take an old industrial zone, add a couple of billionaire-funded museums,…Read the guide →Paseo de la ReformaEvery great city has a boulevard that defines it — the Champs-Elysees, the Ringstrasse, Unter den Linden. Mexico…Read the guide →PolancoPolanco is where Mexico City keeps its money. That's an oversimplification, but not by much. This neighborhood north…Read the guide →Roma NorteRoma Norte is the neighborhood everyone tells you to visit, and for once, everyone is right. Not because…Read the guide →San AngelSan Angel is the neighborhood that makes visitors say "this doesn't feel like Mexico City." Cobblestone streets, colonial…Read the guide →San Miguel ChapultepecSan Miguel Chapultepec sits in that quiet zone between destinations — north of Condesa, west of Colonia Juarez,…Read the guide →San Pedro de los PinosSan Pedro de los Pinos is a middle-class residential colonia west of Condesa and south of Tacubaya. It…Read the guide →Santa FeSanta Fe is the Mexico City that most travel guides pretend doesn't exist. It's a corporate business district…Read the guide →Santa Maria la RiberaSanta Maria la Ribera is the neighborhood that Mexico City's more famous colonias used to be. It's got…Read the guide →TacubayaTacubaya is old. Not "colonial-era-charming" old like Coyoacan or Chimalistac, but "gritty-survived-everything" old. This neighborhood west of the…Read the guide →TlalpanTlalpan is where Mexico City starts to feel less like a city and more like something the city…Read the guide →UNAM CampusThere's a place in southern Mexico City where 60 architects tried to outdo each other on a canvas…Read the guide →XochimilcoXochimilco is the last living piece of pre-Hispanic Mexico City. That's not marketing language -- it's literally true.…Read the guide →Zona RosaZona Rosa is a neighborhood within a neighborhood — about 24 blocks inside the larger Colonia Juarez, bounded…Read the guide →