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Top 10 sights in Mexico City

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   Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

   The largest cathedral in the Americas, built between 1573 and 1813 over the ruins of the Aztec sacred precinct with stone from its temples. It has sunk unevenly into the lake bed beneath the city — a pendulum inside once tracked the tilt — and holds fourteen chapels and two organs of the 1730s.

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   National Museum of Anthropology

   Mexico's most visited museum, opened in 1964 in a building by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez whose courtyard is covered by a single concrete umbrella on one column. Twenty-two halls hold the Aztec Sun Stone, the Olmec heads and the reconstructed tomb of Pakal from Palenque.

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   Templo Mayor

   The main temple of Tenochtitlan, demolished in 1521 and forgotten until electricity workers struck the eight-tonne Coyolxauhqui disc in 1978, a block from the cathedral. Seven superimposed pyramids were excavated; the museum beside them holds 7,000 objects from the offerings.

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   National Palace

   The seat of the federal executive, built from 1522 on Moctezuma's palace and rebuilt after a riot burned it in 1692. Diego Rivera's stairway murals, painted from 1929 to 1935, run the history of Mexico across 276 square metres, and the president has lived here since 2018.

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   Frida Kahlo Museum

   The cobalt-blue house in Coyoacán where Frida Kahlo was born, lived with Diego Rivera and died in 1954, opened as a museum four years later. Her wheelchair stands at the easel and her wardrobe, sealed for fifty years on Rivera's instruction, was opened in 2004; tickets sell out days ahead.

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   Zócalo

   The main square, 57,600 square metres of open paving, and the ceremonial centre of Tenochtitlan before it was the ceremonial centre of New Spain. A national flag is raised and lowered here daily by soldiers, and the plaza holds everything from ice rinks to protest camps.

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   Luis Barragán House and Studio

   The house Luis Barragán built for himself in 1948, a blank street facade concealing rooms of pink, ochre and violet lit through unglazed openings onto a wild garden. It became a World Heritage site in 2004, the only individual house in Latin America so listed; visits are by appointment only.

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   Chapultepec Castle

   The only royal castle in the Americas, on the hill where Aztec rulers had their retreat, and the residence of Emperor Maximilian and later of Mexican presidents until 1939. It is now the national history museum, with Maximilian's carriage and murals by Siqueiros and O'Gorman.

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   Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

   The most visited Catholic shrine in the world after St Peter's, drawing around twenty million people a year, and about nine million on 12 December alone. The cloak said to carry the image of the Virgin from 1531 hangs behind the altar of the 1976 basilica, seen from a moving walkway.

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    Angel of Independence

    A victory column of 1910 on Paseo de la Reforma, raised for the centenary of independence with a gilded Winged Victory nine metres tall. The mausoleum in its base holds the remains of Hidalgo, Morelos and other independence leaders; the roundabout is where Mexico City celebrates football.

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   Santa Fe

   A business district in the west built on a former sand mine and rubbish dump, whose towers surround Centro Santa Fe, the largest shopping mall in Latin America. It has almost no pavements, which is the standing criticism of it.

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   Zona Rosa

   A district off Reforma that was the city's fashionable nightlife quarter in the 1960s and is now both its main gay district and its Koreatown, with signage in Hangul along Calle Florencia. Genova street is pedestrianised, and the antiques and book stalls run at weekends.

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   Polanco

   District of Mexico City laid out in the 1930s, now the wealthiest in the country. Its Masaryk avenue carries the luxury shops and most of the city's embassies stand nearby.

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   Six Flags México

   An amusement park in the Tlalpan forest on the southern edge of the city, drawing about 2.8 million people a year — the most visited theme park in Latin America. As Reino Aventura before 1999 it kept the orca Keiko, later released after the Free Willy films.

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   Tepito

   A barrio in Colonia Morelos whose street market has traded on this ground since before the conquest, and where the Aztecs made their last stand in 1521. It is known for contraband and for producing boxers, and its reputation keeps most visitors out.

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   Anahuacalli Museum

   A windowless volcanic-stone building Diego Rivera designed as a temple for his collection of some 45,000 pre-Hispanic pieces, ten minutes from Frida Kahlo's house. He died before it opened in 1964; the roof terrace looks across a reserve of native pedregal vegetation.

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   Complejo Cultural Los Pinos

   The official presidential residence from 1934 to 2018, opened as a free cultural complex when López Obrador declined to live in it. Fourteen hectares of gardens, the residence itself and Miguel Alemán's private cinema can all be walked through.

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   Plaza México

   The largest bullring in the world, seating 41,262 in the Ciudad de los Deportes complex. It opened on 5 February 1946 in place of the Toreo de la Condesa, and that date is still marked each year by the anniversary corrida.

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   Palace of Iturbide

   A palace of 1779 to 1785 in the historic centre, built by the Count of San Mateo de Valparaíso as a wedding present for his daughter, in tezontle stone with a baroque portal. Agustín de Iturbide was proclaimed emperor from its balcony in 1822; it is now a bank's cultural centre.

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    plaza Garibaldi

    A square on Eje Central where mariachi bands have gathered for hire since the 1920s, renamed in 1920 after Garibaldi's grandson, who fought in the Mexican Revolution. Groups play for about 200 pesos a song, and the Salón Tenampa on one side has been open since 1925.

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