Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Mexico City, Mexico

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 12.2 km
Ascend 197 m
Descend 239 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: Papalote•Museo del Niño

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Papalote•Museo del Niño Jaime Navarro / CC BY-SA 4.0

The museum Papalote Museo del Niño is located in Mexico City Bosques de Chapultepec. The museum is focused in learning, communication and working together through interactive expositions of science, technology and art for children.

Wikipedia: Papalote Museo del Niño (EN), Website

1673 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 2: Parque Lira

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Parque Lira is a public park in the Tacubaya district of Mexico City, once a separate town from Mexico City. It is located on the 18th century estate of Vicente Lira. It is entered by a monumental archway designed by Italian architect Francesco Saverio Cavallari, an Italian architect who was active in Mexico 1857–1864.

Wikipedia: Parque Lira (EN)

787 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 3: Casa Luis Barragán

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Casa Luis Barragán Francesco Bandarin / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo

Luis Barragán House and Studio, also known as Casa Luis Barragán, is the former residence of architect Luis Barragán in Miguel Hidalgo district, Mexico City. It is owned by the Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía and the Government of the State of Jalisco. It is now a museum exhibiting Barragán's work and is also used by visiting architects. It retains the original furniture and Barragán's personal objects. These include a mostly Mexican art collection spanning the 16th to 20th century, with works by Picasso, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Jesús Reyes Ferreira and Miguel Covarrubias.

Wikipedia: Luis Barragán House and Studio (EN), Website

616 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: 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 5: 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

987 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 6: 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

598 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 7: 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)

676 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 8: 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 9: 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 10: 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)

588 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 11: Estela de Luz

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The Estela de Luz is a monument in Mexico City built in 2011 to commemorate the bicentenary of Mexico's independence from Spanish rule. Its design was the winning entry in an invited competition to seek the best combination of Mexico's past and future; the design uses quartz and electric lighting to achieve this effect. The Estela de Luz is mainly used for cultural events. Below it, the Centro de Cultura Digital cultural complex was built.

Wikipedia: Estela de Luz (EN)

657 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

263 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: 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

413 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: 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)

606 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 15: El Sereno

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El Sereno is a statue installed at Glorieta de los Insurgentes, a roundabout in Avenida de los Insurgentes, in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City. The statue was designed by Víctor Manuel Villareal and was placed in 1992. The statue features a watchman, formerly a law enforcement position. When it was unveiled, El Sereno had a lamp and a plaque that were removed at some point.

Wikipedia: El Sereno (sculpture) (EN)

30 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: 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 17: 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)

1034 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 18: 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)

465 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 19: Parque México

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The Parque México, officially Parque San Martín, is a large urban park located in Colonia Hipódromo in the Condesa area of Mexico City. It is recognized by its Art Deco architecture and decor as well as being one of the larger green areas in the city. In 1927, when the surrounding neighborhood of Colonia Hipódromo was being built, the park was developed on the former site of the horse race track of the Jockey Club de México. Today, Parque México is not only the center of Colonia Hipódromo, it is also the cultural center of the entire La Condesa section of the city.

Wikipedia: Parque México (EN)

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