Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Mexico City, Mexico

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 11.7 km
Ascend 174 m
Descend 185 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: Monumento a Colón

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The Monument to Christopher Columbus is a statue by French sculptor Charles Cordier first dedicated in 1877. It was originally located on a major traffic roundabout along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, and was removed on 10 October 2020 in advance of protests.

Wikipedia: Monument to Christopher Columbus (Charles Cordier) (EN)

816 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: Ché Guevara y Fidel Castro

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Ché Guevara y Fidel Castro

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

Wikipedia: Che Guevara (EN)

108 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Museo Nacional de San Carlos

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Museo Nacional de San CarlosDavid Moran from Brooklyn / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Museo Nacional de San Carlos is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palace of the Count of Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City. It contains works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste Rodin and other well-known European painters and sculptors.

Wikipedia: Museo Nacional de San Carlos (EN)

963 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 4: Fuente de la República

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The Fuente de la República is a carbon steel fountain and sculpture installed in Mexico City, Mexico. It was inaugurated on 13 December 2007 by Marcelo Ebrard, the Federal District's head of government, and was placed at the intersection of Avenida Paseo de la Reforma, Avenida Juárez and Avenida Bucareli, in the Cuauhtémoc borough. The fountain was created specifically for the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the country's independence in 2010. It was designed by Manuel Felguérez, who also designed the Puerta 1808 sculpture found in front of it.

Wikipedia: Fuente de la República (EN)

479 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Teatro Metropólitan

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The Teatro Metropólitan is a theater in Mexico City. It was previously known as the Cine Metropólitan, and was built as a movie palace. The architect was Pedro Gorozpe E. with interior decorations by Aurelio G. Mendoza.

Wikipedia: Teatro Metropólitan (EN)

835 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 6: Museo Nacional de la Estampa

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The Museo de la Estampa is a museum in Mexico City, dedicated to the history, preservation and promotion of Mexican graphic arts. The word “estampa” means works in the various printmaking techniques which have the quality of being reproducible and include seals, woodcuts, lithography and others. The museum was created in 1986 and located in a 19th-century Neoclassical building located in the Plaza de Santa Veracruz in the historic center of the city. This building was remodeled both to house the museum and to conserve its original look.

Wikipedia: Museo Nacional de la Estampa (EN)

228 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Santa Vera Cruz

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The Santa Veracruz Monastery in the historic center of Mexico City is one of the oldest religious establishments in Mexico City and was the third most important church in the area in the 16th century. It was established by a religious brotherhood founded by Hernán Cortés.

Wikipedia: Santa Veracruz Monastery, Mexico City (EN)

323 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: 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

534 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: País de Volcanes

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País de Volcanes

País de volcanes is an outdoor fountain and sculpture by the Spanish-born Mexican artist Vicente Rojo Almazán, installed outside Mexico City's Secretariat of Foreign Affairs Building and next to the Memory and Tolerance Museum, in Mexico. It is a 1,000 square meters (11,000 sq ft) artwork that features 1,034 ocher-colored pyramids standing out of the water; the artwork was made with tezontle, a type of reddish volcanic rock. The central body of the fountain contains water that flows subtly down its sides to the area with the pyramids. For Jaime Moreno Villarreal of Letras Libres, the fountain is located slightly below the square level so that the viewer can appreciate the volcanic geography.

Wikipedia: País de volcanes (EN)

638 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 10: Basílica de San José y Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón

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The Basilica of San José and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, is a Catholic temple located in the San Juan neighborhood of the Historic Center of Mexico City in the Mayor's Office Cuauhtémoc. It was built at the end of the 18th century and rebuilt in the mid -nineteenth century. His employer party is celebrated on March 19. It is characterized by being one of the few colonial constructions that are preserved in the San Juan neighborhood and for holding the title of Minor Basilica. It was declared a historic monument on February 9, 1931,

Wikipedia: Basílica de San José y Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón (ES)

151 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe El Buen Tono

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The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, known as the Church of the Good Tone, is a temple located in the San Juan neighborhood of the Historic Center of Mexico City in the Cuauhtémoc Mayor's Office. It was built at the beginning of the 20th century. His patron saint's feast day is celebrated on December 12. It is characterized by being the only temple in the country that is referred to by the name of a manufacturing establishment, as well as by its eclectic style of French inspiration.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Ciudad de México) (ES)

959 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 12: Biblioteca de México José Vasconcelos

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The Citadel is a building in Mexico City was built between 1793 and 1807 by the Spanish architect José Antonio González Velázquez with the purpose of hosting the Royal Factory of Pure and Cigars of Mexico. Currently in the building is the Mexico Library "José Vasconcelos" and the center of the image and the headquarters of the General Directorate of Libraries of the Ministry of Culture of the country.

Wikipedia: La Ciudadela (ciudad de México) (ES), Website

1582 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 13: Sarah Andersen Mural

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Sarah Andersen is an American cartoonist and illustrator, and the author of the webcomic Sarah's Scribbles.

Wikipedia: Sarah Andersen (EN)

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: MODO - Museo del Objeto del Objeto

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The Museo del Objeto, or MODO, is a museum in Mexico City and the first museum in Mexico dedicated to design and communications. It was opened in 2010 based on a collection of commercial packaging, advertising, graphic arts, common devices and many other objects dating back to 1810 collected by Bruno Newman over more than 40 years. The museum is dedicated to the preservation of its collection of more than 30,000 items from two centuries and to the research in the history of design and communications.

Wikipedia: Museo del Objeto del Objeto (EN), Website

802 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 15: Glorieta de los Insurgentes

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Glorieta de Insurgentes is a large roundabout in Mexico City formed at the intersection of Avenida Chapultepec and Avenida de los Insurgentes. Oaxaca Avenue connects to it heading southwest to Fuente de Cibeles. The smaller street Génova connects to Zona Rosa. Jalapa connects via one-way traffic from Colonia Roma.

Wikipedia: Glorieta de los Insurgentes (EN)

687 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 16: Fuente de Cibeles

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The Fountain of Cybele in Mexico City is a bronze replica of the fountain located in the Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid that was built during the reign of Charles III by architect Ventura Rodríguez between 1777 and 1792. The Mexican version is located at a traffic circle in Plaza Villa de Madrid, where Oaxaca, Durango, Medellín and El Oro streets converge in Colonia Roma.

Wikipedia: Fuente de Cibeles (Mexico City) (EN)

351 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Acueducto de Chapultepec

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The Chapultepec aqueduct was built to provide potable water to Tenochtitlan, now known as Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Triple Aztec Alliance empire. This fresh water was transported from the Chapultepec springs. Two aqueducts following the same route from the springs were built by the Aztecs during the 15th century, the first destroyed by flooding and the second by the Spanish. After the Spanish conquest a colonial aqueduct was built, the ruins of which are located near Metro Sevilla.

Wikipedia: Chapultepec aqueduct (EN)

413 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Parish of the Holy Child of Peace

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The Parish of the Holy Child of Peace is a historic church located near Paseo de la Reforma and Zona Rosa in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico. It is also known as Praga Parish because it is found on Praga 11 Street. The church is known for its German neogothic architecture and was recognized as a temple by the Secretariat of the Interior in 1931.

Wikipedia: Parish of the Holy Child of Peace (EN), Website

263 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Fuente de la Diana Cazadora

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The Huntress Diana Fountain is a monumental fountain of Diana located in the roundabout at Paseo de la Reforma and Río Misisipí and Sevilla streets, on the border of the Colonia Cuauhtémoc and Colonia Juárez neighborhoods of Mexico City. Nearby landmarks named after the fountain include the Cine Diana and the skyscrapers Corporativo Reforma Diana and Torre Diana.

Wikipedia: Diana the Huntress Fountain (EN)

1369 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 20: Parque España

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Parque España is a park in the Colonia Hipódromo (neighborhood) of the Condesa district, in the Cuauhtémoc borough, in west-central Mexico City.

Wikipedia: Parque España (EN)

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