Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Mexico City, Mexico

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 10.5 km
Ascend 163 m
Descend 167 m

Explore Mexico City in Mexico with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in Mexico CityIndividual Sights in Mexico City

Sight 1: Museo del Tequila y el Mezcal

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Museo del Tequila y el MezcalAlejandroLinaresGarcia; cropped by Beyond My Ken 04:02, 2 October 2012 (UTC) / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Museum of Tequila and Mezcal is a cultural venue that exhibits the most representative of the culture of tequila and mezcal through exhibitions, conferences, concerts, gastronomy and other cultural manifestations located in Plaza Garibaldi in Mexico City.

Wikipedia: Museo del Tequila y el Mezcal (ES)

629 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Teatro Blanquita

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The Teatro Blanquita, also called El Blanquita, was a theater in Mexico City inaugurated on August 27, 1960 and located at number 16 of the Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas at the height of the Historic Center of Mexico City. It was inaugurated at the initiative of the writer and theatrical entrepreneur Margo Su and her husband Félix Cervantes. Popular plays and concerts were presented on its stage. In 2010 it was one of the five most visited in the Mexican capital. Blanca Eva Cervantes was a first cousin of Félix Cervantes.

Wikipedia: Teatro Blanquita (ES)

442 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Teatro Fru-fru

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The Teatro Fru (Fru Theater) is a theater in Mexico City. It was inaugurated on January 1, 1899 under the name Teatro Renacimiento. In 1973 it was re-inaugurated with its current name. It is located at number 24 in the Donceles Street, in the Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México

Wikipedia: Teatro Fru Fru (EN)

156 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris

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The Teatro de la Ciudad was built as the Teatro Esperanza Iris in 1918 and is now one of Mexico City’s public venues for cultural events. The theater is located in the historic center of Mexico City on Donceles Street 36.

Wikipedia: Teatro de la Ciudad (EN), Website

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: El Caballito

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The equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain is a bronze sculpture cast by Manuel Tolsá built between 1796 and 1803 in Mexico City, Mexico in honour of King Charles IV of Spain, then the last ruler of the New Spain. This statue has been displayed in different points of the city and is considered one of the finest achievements of Mr. Tolsá. It now resides in Plaza Manuel Tolsá.

Wikipedia: Equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain (EN)

95 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Palacio Postal

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The Palacio de Correos de México, also known as the "Correo Mayor" is located in the historic center of Mexico City, on the Eje Central near the Palacio de Bellas Artes. It was built in 1907, when the Post Office became a separate government entity. Its design and construction was the most modern at the time, including a very eclectic style which mixed several different traditions, mainly Neo-Plateresque, into a very complex design. In the 1950s, the building was modified in a way that caused stress and damage, so when the 1985 earthquake struck Mexico City, it was heavily damaged. In the 1990s, restoration work has brought the building back to original construction and appearance.

Wikipedia: Palacio de Correos de México (EN)

243 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Palacio de Bellas Artes

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The Palacio de Bellas Artes is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City. This hosts performing arts events, literature events and plastic arts galleries and exhibitions. "Bellas Artes" for short, has been called the "art cathedral of Mexico", and is located on the western side of the historic center of Mexico City which is close to the Alameda Central park.

Wikipedia: Palacio de Bellas Artes (EN), Website

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Palacio de Iturbide

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The Palace of Iturbide is a large palatial residence located in the historic center of Mexico City at Madero Street #17. It was built by the Count of San Mateo Valparaíso as a wedding gift for his daughter. It gained the name “Palace of Iturbide” because Agustín de Iturbide lived there and accepted the crown of the First Mexican Empire at the palace after independence from Spain. Today, the restored building houses the Fomento Cultural Banamex; it has been renamed the Palacio de Cultura Banamex.

Wikipedia: Palace of Iturbide (EN)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Iglesia de la Profesa

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The Church of San Felipe Neri, commonly known as "La Profesa", is a Roman Catholic parish church that was established by the Society of Jesus late in the 16th century as the church of a community of professed Jesuits. The church is considered to be an important transitional work between the more sober or moderate Baroque style of the 17th century and the extremely decorated manifestations of the Baroque of the 18th century in Mexico.

Wikipedia: Church of San Felipe Neri "La Profesa" (EN)

52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Museo del Estanquillo

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The Museo del Estanquillo is located in the Historic Center of Mexico City, Mexico. The museum houses the personal collection of the writer Carlos Monsivais, encompassing paintings, photography, toys, albums, calendars, advertising and books.

Wikipedia: Museo del Estanquillo (EN)

425 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Constitution Square

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Constitution SquareComisión Mexicana de Filmaciones from México D. F., México / CC BY-SA 2.0

Zócalo is the common name of the main square in central Mexico City. Prior to the colonial period, it was the main ceremonial center in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. The plaza used to be known simply as the "Main Square" or "Arms Square", and today its formal name is Plaza de la Constitución. This name does not come from any of the Mexican constitutions that have governed the country but rather from the Cádiz Constitution, which was signed in Spain in the year 1812. Even so, it is almost always called the Zócalo today. Plans were made to erect a column as a monument to independence, but only the base, or zócalo, was built. The plinth was buried long ago, but the name has lived on. Many other Mexican towns and cities, such as Oaxaca, Mérida, and Guadalajara, have adopted the word zócalo to refer to their main plazas, but not all.

Wikipedia: Zócalo (EN)

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Catedral Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México

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The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico. It is situated on top of the former Aztec sacred precinct near the Templo Mayor on the northern side of the Plaza de la Constitución (Zócalo) in the historic center of Mexico City. The cathedral was built in sections from 1573 to 1813 around the original church that was constructed soon after the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan, eventually replacing it entirely. Spanish architect Claudio de Arciniega planned the construction, drawing inspiration from Gothic cathedrals in Spain.

Wikipedia: Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral (EN)

460 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 13: Templo Mayor

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The Templo Mayor was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. The temple was called Huēyi Teōcalli in the Nahuatl language. It was dedicated simultaneously to Huitzilopochtli, god of war, and Tlaloc, god of rain and agriculture, each of which had a shrine at the top of the pyramid with separate staircases. The central spire was devoted to Quetzalcoatl in his form as the wind god, Ehecatl. The Great Temple devoted to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, measuring approximately 100 by 80 m at its base, dominated the Sacred Precinct. Construction of the first temple began sometime after 1325, and it was rebuilt six times. The temple was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521, and the Mexico City cathedral was built in its place.

Wikipedia: Templo Mayor (EN)

194 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Museo Templo Mayor

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The Templo Mayor Museum is located in the Historic Center of Mexico City, Mexico. The objective of the museum is to publicize the findings found in the framework of the on-site research that is being carried out in the archaeological zone of the Templo Mayor of the Mexica.

Wikipedia: Museo del Templo Mayor (ES)

898 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 15: Museo Numismático Nacional

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The National Numismatic Museum is part of the Mexican Mint, where since the seventeenth century the industrial process of separating the gold that was mixed with silver from the mines was carried out, this enclosure is located in the Historic Center, in the old Casa del Apartado.

Wikipedia: Museo Numismático Nacional (México) (ES)

1196 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 16: San Antonio Tomatlán

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The Chapel of San Antonio Tomatlán is a religious building in Mexico City, located in the downtown area of Mexico City.

Wikipedia: Capilla de San Antonio Tomatlán (ES)

1774 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 17: Museo de la Ciudad de México

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The Museum of Mexico City is located at Pino Suarez 30, a few blocks south of the Zocalo, on what was the Iztapalapa Causeway, near where Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II met for the first time. This building used to be the palace of the Counts of Santiago de Calimaya, who were the descendants of one of the conquistadors with Cortés. The house was extensively remodeled during the colony to much the appearance that it has today and remained in the family until 1960, when the Mexico City government acquired it from them in order to found the Museum that is found there today. The museum contains a number of elements of the old palace as well as 26 rooms dedicated to the history and development of Mexico City from Aztec times to the present. It also contains a library and the studios of painter Joaquín Clausell, who lived here in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Wikipedia: Museum of Mexico City (EN)

88 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Iglesia de Jesús Nazareno

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The Church of Jesús Nazareno is a Catholic temple located in the historic center of Mexico City, in the Mayor's Office Cuauhtémoc and was built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with modifications in the nineteenth century. It is annexed to the hospital of the same name and is characterized by house the apocalypse mural of José Clemente Orozco, the remains of Hernán Cortés and the cover of the first cathedral of Mexico which dates from the late 16th century and is one of the few construction elements of that century that are preserved in the historic center of the city. The temple was declared a historic monument on August 29, 1932.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Jesús Nazareno (Ciudad de México) (ES)

809 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 19: Museo de la Charrería

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The Museo de Charrería or Charrería Museum is located in the historic center of Mexico City on Izazaga Street, in an old monastery which was dedicated to the Virgin of Montserrat. The monastery closed in 1821 and the building deteriorated significantly, until it was decided to rehabilitate it as a tourist attraction. The purpose of the museum is to preserve and promote the sport and tradition of the charreada with both the museum's permanent display of art and handicrafts as well as outreach programs.

Wikipedia: Museo de Charrería (EN)

1865 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 20: La Concepción Ixnahualtongo

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The Chapel of the Ixnahualtongo Conception is a religious building in Mexico City, located southeast of its center.

Wikipedia: Capilla de la Concepción Ixnahualtongo (ES)

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