Museo del Templo Major
View back toward the entrance to the site showing the extent of the excavation. Unfortunately due to heavy rain we weren't able to spend much time outdoors exploring the ruins. Fortunately, the museum also includes an extensive collection of artifacts which illustrated the different characters and e...
Back to the Zócalo
Reproduction of the scene that depicts the moment that led to the founding of the city. Dancers on the Zócalo.
Art Deco en Hipódromo
Walking back to the apartment we crossed this pedestrian median which runs the full circle of Calle Amsterdam. The oval shape of the neighbourhood owes to its origin as a racehorse track, the Hipódromo meaning racetrack in Spanish, was on land owned by the Condesa de.... Much of the neighbourhood wa...
Taqueria Vegana Por Siempre
Museo Nacional de la Cartografía
Museo de los Ferrocarrileros
Metro Exhibit II
During the excavation of the Centro for the metro system, vast archeological relics were discovered. This one was incorporated into the underground walkway system at the confluence... to provide a open air plaza centrepiece that can be
Metro station Exhibit I
In an entrance corridor off the north eastern corner of the Zócalo, a gallery of old images and fantastic... of the monumental architecture and use of the area of the Centro Histórico around the Zócalo. Tenochtitlan, as it looked when the Europeans arrived. Looking south-east. Looking north-east (th...
Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico
This another museum 'of the city' that doesn't actually have an exhibit about the development of the city itself but rather, a museum dedicated to the culture of the city. Unfortunately, there were no exhibits on when I dropped by. I checked the bookshop housed in the museum to see if they had an at...
República de El Salvador
Unbeknownst to me, I found myself walking along the route of Line 4 of the Metrobus system. My impression of those buses had been the one I was left with when I first saw them running along Insurgentes. They ran quite fast in reserved centre lanes, were very loud and belched out black smoke. They wo...