Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Mexico City, Mexico

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Number of sights 11 sights
Distance 6.2 km
Ascend 107 m
Descend 109 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: Abraham Lincoln: The Man

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Abraham Lincoln: The Man is a larger-than-life size 12-foot (3.7 m) bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. The original statue is in Lincoln Park in Chicago, and later re-castings of the statue have been given as diplomatic gifts from the United States to the United Kingdom, and to Mexico.

Wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln: The Man (EN)

74 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Parque Lincoln

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Parque Lincoln

Parque Lincoln is a city park in Mexico City, Mexico in the Polanco neighborhood. The park memorializes US President Abraham Lincoln and has a copy of Abraham Lincoln: The Man, also known as Standing Lincoln. The park also has a statue of Martin Luther King Jr.

Wikipedia: Parque Lincoln (EN)

100 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Martin Luther King Jr.

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The statue of Martin Luther King Jr. was installed in Mexico City's Parque Lincoln in 1993 by artist Maru Santos.

Wikipedia: Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Mexico City) (EN)

907 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 4: Auditorio Nacional

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Auditorio Nacional Auditorio Nacional / PD

National Auditorium is an entertainment center at Paseo de la Reforma #50, Chapultepec in Mexico City.

Wikipedia: Auditorio Nacional (Mexico) (EN)

1349 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 5: Complejo Cultural Los Pinos

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Los Pinos was the official residence and office of the President of Mexico from 1934 to 2018. Located in the Bosque de Chapultepec in central Mexico City, it became the presidential seat in 1934, when Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas became the first president to live there. The term Los Pinos became a metonym for the Presidency of Mexico.

Wikipedia: Los Pinos (EN), Website

1391 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 6: Casa del Lago UNAM

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Casa del Lago was instituted in 1959 as the first off-campus Cultural Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. It is characterized by its extraordinary ability to promote the cultural and generational encounter between the vanguard and tradition. It was established with Juan José Arreola as its founding director and is located in the Woods of Chapultepec, a traditional Sunday walk area for the inhabitants of the capital.

Wikipedia: Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola (EN), Website

719 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Obelisco a los Niños Héroes

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The Obelisco a los Niños Héroes is a monument installed in Chapultepec, Mexico City. The cenotaph was created in 1881 by architect Ramón Rodríguez Arangoity, one of the cadets captured in the Battle of Chapultepec. The marble cenotaph was a typical nineteenth-century monument. This one lists the names of the six cadets, the Niños Héroes, killed in the fierce fighting in the Mexican–American War as military cadets defended as well as the 40 who survived the attack. For his own political purposes, General Porfirio Díaz inaugurated the monument with a military and civilian audience of dignitaries. Subsequently, the obelisk became an annual site of remembrance for the Association of the Military College, a group of veterans who had been cadets. This modest-sized monument was superseded in 1952 by the massive Monumento a los Niños Héroes.

Wikipedia: Obelisco a los Niños Héroes (EN)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Monumento a los Niños Héroes

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The Monumento a los Niños Héroes, officially Altar a la Patria, is a monument installed in the park of Chapultepec in Mexico City, Mexico. It commemorates the Niños Héroes, six mostly teenage military cadets who were killed defending Mexico City from the United States during the Battle of Chapultepec, one of the last major battles of the Mexican–American War, on 13 September 1847.

Wikipedia: Monumento a los Niños Héroes (EN)

458 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Museo de Arte Moderno

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Museo de Arte Moderno

The Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) is a museum dedicated to modern Mexican art located in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City.

Wikipedia: Museo de Arte Moderno (EN)

395 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Museo Rufino Tamayo

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Museo Rufino Tamayo is a public contemporary art museum located in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park, that produces contemporary art exhibitions, using its collection of modern and contemporary art, as well as artworks from the collection of its founder, the artist Rufino Tamayo.

Wikipedia: Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (EN)

598 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 11: Museo Nacional de Antropología

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Museo Nacional de Antropología kornemuz / CC BY-SA 3.0

The National Museum of Anthropology is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage, such as the Stone of the Sun and the Aztec Xochipilli statue.

Wikipedia: National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico) (EN), Website

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