March 9 – 17, 2024

Let’s take a cultural sightseeing trip to Mexico City!  Mexico City has beautiful parks, architectural gems, ancient Mesoamerican indigenous sites, and an incredible 150 museums! 

Trip Dates:  Check-in on Saturday, March 9; check-out on Sunday, March 17, 2024

Partial Itinerary (subject to change):

• The Central Historic District, with the Zocalo (main plaza, one of the largest in the world), the Metropolitan Cathedral (built from 1573 to 1813), and Templo Mayor, the Aztec high temple that was unearthed in the 1970s, and its associated museum.
• Alameda Central Park (also located in the Central Historic District), the oldest municipal park in the city, which is surrounded by a host of museums, including the Palace of Fine Arts, National Art Museum, Diego Rivera Mural Museum, Museo Kaluz (18th-21st Century Mexican art), Museo Franz Mayer (decorative arts from the 1500s to the 1800s), Museo Memoria Y Tolerancia (modern museum about global genocides), and the Popular Art Museum.
• Chapultepec Park, Mexico City’s premier green space – twice as large as New York’s Central Park – containing the National Museum of Anthropology (housing treasures of Mexico’s many indigenous cultures), Chapultepec Castle (housing the Historical Museum), ancient Aztec baths, two modern art museums, and many other attractions.
• Coyoacan, a bohemian neighborhood with colorful markets; scores of ornate, historic buildings; an arboretum (Viveros de Coyoacan); and the Casa Azul (Frida Kahlo Museum), where Mexico’s most famous artist lived and died.
• Xochimilco, a borough of Mexico City offering boat rides along the peaceful canals and pre-Hispanic “floating gardens.”
• Teotihuacan, an ancient pre-Aztec city, once the largest city in the Americas, located 25 miles from Mexico City.  It is the site of the Pyramid of the Sun, one of the largest pyramids in Mesoamerica.

For more information, join the Mexico City Trip listserv or address questions to Mike Sabacinski at: mexicotrip2024@uucuc.org

Official Mexico City Visitor’s Guide

https://mexicocity.cdmx.gob.mx/

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