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Things to do in Mexico City, Mexico: The Best Points of Interest & Landmarks
Rising from the ruins of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, Mexico City offers a unique collision of contemporary city life and historic preservation. World-class museums, restaurants and parks rub shoulders with the remains of several cultures. The nightlife, the shopping and the history make it a must-see regardless of your travel style.
Restaurants in Mexico City
1. Museo Frida Kahlo
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4.5 based on 9,703 reviews
The lifelong home of Frida Kahlo is now a museum dedicated to the work of this famous 20th-century artist.
Reviewed By Seanspacifica - St. Albans, United Kingdom
I highly recommend visiting the Frida Kahlo museum, and if you’re English it’s worth paying the extra pesos to have an audio guide. The house is beautiful with so many original artifacts and paintings, and it’s a great way to get a feel for the colourful character that Frida Kahlo was. It’s a very popular attraction so to avoid VERY long queues, it’s best to book ahead.
2. Francisco Sosa Avenue
3. Centro Cultural Elena Garro
4. Plaza de la Conchita
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4.0 based on 16 reviews
This plaza features an eighteenth century chapel.
Reviewed By inog
Hernan Cortes, the Spanish Conquistador, famously conquered the natives of Mexico with a combination military might, assuming the role of their god, supplanting traditional beliefs with Catholicism, and a near extinction level plague of smallpox. All this with relative ease and nominal losses while returning hordes of gold, silver and jewels to Spain. After taking residence in “New Spain” as governor, he killed his Spanish wife, married his favorite native slave, elevated her to the status of “Dona,” and in 1525 built her this church, Iglesia de la Conchita San Lorenzo La Cebada. While Cortes’ legacy is now interpreted in a new light, his native wife Dona Marina, or “La Malinche,” is revered. She was a native that bridged worlds, rose to prominence, and gave birth to what many call the first mestizo. (In fact her son was often called and referred to as El Mestizo, The Mixed One.) Many now vilify Cortes, but La Malinche is seen as something else. She is the first queen, the mother of the blended people of the new world and the old world that are now known as Mexican. She is their Diana and their Jackie-O. She is Frida before Frida. It might be fair to say that this unassuming Church, park, and the house across from the Church where La Malinche lived are the very heart from which modern Mexican identity grew.
5. Parque Allende
6. Plaza Garibaldi
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3.0 based on 990 reviews
This raucous and sometimes crazy plaza is filled with mariachi bands and other musicians.
Reviewed By zipit80 - Boise, United States
If you go, it has to be at night and on a saturday or sunday. We went twice. The first time was on a Thursday afternoon and nothing was going on. Skip the small food market on the North end. Stay in the square and you will be alright and safe. Highly recommend to go to Tenampa restaurant. Make your reservations and then was a 100 feet to the Tequila museum. So interesting. Go to the roof top and take some shots. Know that each song cost 130 peso's. We tried to barter but they would no budge. When done take an Uber right out side the museum.
