Welcome to Mexico City!
A place with ancient roots, in recent years this mega-city of 21 million has undergone a renaissance, exploding into a city of color!!
Mexico City’s color can be found on every street. It’s in the monuments, the dappled sunlight and quiet of its yards, and in the brushstrokes of its murals and street art. It’s in the faded pastels and tile work of colonial buildings, it’s in the canteens, the music, the cuisine, everywhere there is color!
If life has a color, that color must be called Mexico City!
Despite its legendary sprawl, Mexico City isn’t hard to travel. Just like the paint upon an artist’s palette!
The city is divided into distinctive boroughs, all with their moods & shades. Mexico City’s colors run most distant in the main square, the Zocalo, once the epicenter of the Mexican Civilization. When the Spanish landed in 1521, the Aztec temples were quickly leveled, and a colonial city built in its place.
Today, this area is led over by a temple of a different kind, The Metropolitan Cathedral. Throughout the Center Historical district, over 1500 heritage buildings are ready for your attention.
Visit San Ildefonso College and be acquainted with the earliest gems of Mexican muralism. Dive into a kaleidoscope of color and craft at La Ciudadela, an artisanal market featuring over 3 hundred stalls.
Then admire the blue and white splendor of Casa de Azulejos, The House of Tiles. The streets of this district overflow with incredible museums and galleries, such as the Postal Palace Library Museum, and the Palace of Fine Arts.
When it’s time for a change of color, head to leafy avenues of Alameda Central. Discover even more shades of green at Chapultepec Park, one of the largest urban parks in the world.
As well as serving as the city’s lungs, the park is home to cultural institutions such as the Auditorio Nacional, and the museum of anthropology, as well as the popular Chapultepec Zoo. Pay your respects to the Ninos Heroes. This monument honors the six boy soldiers who gave their lives defending Castillo de Chapultepec when it fell to the Americans in 1847.
Today, the castle serves as the National Museum of History, shining sun through the darkest, and most colorful parts, of Mexico’s history. Just to the north is upscale Polanco, and it's neighbor Nuevo Polanco, a former warehouse area rapidly being transformed by new architectural visions.
Rising like shape-shifting plasma, the Museo Soumaya is filled with over 60,000 artworks from the private collection of billionaire, Carlos Slim.
Displaying masterpieces from over the ages, this free museum features European scholars such as Dali, van Gogh, and Rodin. The spirit of philanthropy continues just across the road, at Museo Jumex, a building that repeats the district’s industrial past and houses the biggest private modern art collection in Latin America.
In the early 20th century this area flowered into a place of bohemian; its artists, writers, and intellectuals inspiring and enriching not only Mexico but the entire world.
Visit The Blue House, the birthplace of Frieda Kahlo. In nearby San Angel, travel the museum, house, and studio of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, where these two giants of Mexican art worked and lived.
Just to the south are the incredible murals and buildings of University City, which was built in 1950, was the city’s largest single building project.
Here is the university’s Olympic stadium, which is one of Rivera’s last epic murals, a work he never existed to complete. The spirit of bohemia and creativity continues amid the refined colors and attraction of districts such as Condesa & Roma.
At Xochimilco, simply float away on a disturbance of color on the last of the city’s Aztec canals, exploring shops and gardens along the way.
In Mexico City, there is color everywhere, and once experienced, they will never dissolve. All of you have to close your eyes, and you will see the various colors of Mexico City again, today, tomorrow, and anytime!
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