Paseo de la Reforma
Mexico City’s grandest boulevard connects Chapultepec to the Historic Center, collecting gilded monuments, glass towers, and 150 years of national ambition along 15 kilometers.
The Zocalo
Mexico City’s main square has been the center of everything — Aztec ceremonies, colonial commerce, presidential speeches, and concerts for 250,000 people — for nearly 700 years.
Chapultepec Castle
The only royal castle in the Americas sits on a hilltop in the middle of Mexico City. Chapultepec Castle has been an Aztec retreat, an imperial palace, a presidential residence, and now one of the best history museums in the country.
Colonia Juarez
From French mansions to Korean BBQ to Mexico City’s gayborhood — Colonia Juarez is 99 blocks of contradiction, nightlife, and history sitting right between Reforma and Roma.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Studio Museum
Most visitors to Mexico City make a beeline for the Frida Kahlo Museum in Coyoacan — the famous Blue House where she was born, lived, and died. We get it. It’s a powerful place. But if that’s the only Frida-and-Diego spot on your itinerary, you’re missing something arguably more interesting: the Museo Casa Estudio Diego … Read more
Diana the Huntress Fountain
If you’ve ever driven, walked, or been stuck in traffic along Paseo de la Reforma, you’ve seen her. A bronze woman, bow drawn, arrow aimed at the sky, standing on a stone pedestal in the middle of a busy roundabout. She’s the Fuente de la Diana Cazadora — the Diana the Huntress Fountain — and … Read more
The Postal Palace
Most cities would put their post office in a concrete box with fluorescent lighting and call it a day. Mexico City decided to put theirs in a palace. And not a modest, restrained sort of palace — we’re talking gilded ironwork, Venetian-style staircases, marble floors from Italy, and stained glass ceilings that make you forget … Read more
Angel of Independence
The Angel of Independence on Paseo de la Reforma is Mexico City’s most recognizable monument — a gilded victory column that doubles as a mausoleum for fourteen independence heroes.