Experiences

You are here for an appointment — but you are also in Mexico City. Museums, food, parks, markets, and nights out, each marked with how much it asks of you, so you can pick what fits the stage of your trip.

Los niveles de actividad y las notas de recuperación son orientación general sobre logística, no consejo médico. Siga las instrucciones de su equipo médico.

26 lugares listados

Ángel de la Independencia

The golden angel over Reforma — the city's meeting point and its victory lap

Landmarks & Architecture · Juárez

Tranquilo Gratis

Baltra Bar

A small, dim, Darwin-themed cocktail room in Condesa that regulars try to keep secret

Nightlife · Condesa

Antes de la cirugía / próximo viaje $$$

Bazar Sábado

San Ángel's Saturday-only art fair, spilling from a colonial mansion into cobbled plazas

Markets & Shopping · San Ángel

Moderado $$

Bosque de Chapultepec

The city's great park — lakes, museums, and twice the acreage of Central Park

Parks & Outdoors · Chapultepec

Moderado Gratis

Café de Tacuba

Enchiladas and nuns' recipes under painted vaults, since 1912

Food & Drink · Centro Histórico

Tranquilo $$

Castillo de Chapultepec

The only royal castle in the Americas, on a hill above the whole city

Landmarks & Architecture, Museums & Culture · Chapultepec

Día completo $

Churrería El Moro

Churros and thick hot chocolate since 1935 — the original counter on Eje Central

Food & Drink · Centro Histórico

Tranquilo $

Dulcería de Celaya

Candied fruit and convent sweets from a gilded 1874 storefront

Food & Drink, Markets & Shopping · Centro Histórico

Tranquilo $

Lucha Libre at Arena México

Masked heroes, folding chairs, and 16,000 people yelling — Tuesday and Friday nights

Nightlife · Juárez

Antes de la cirugía / próximo viaje $$

Mercado de Coyoacán

Tostadas, flowers, and piñatas in Coyoacán's proper neighborhood market

Food & Drink, Markets & Shopping · Coyoacán

Moderado $

Mercado Roma

Roma Norte's three-story gourmet food hall — thirty kitchens under one roof

Food & Drink, Markets & Shopping · Roma Norte

Tranquilo $$

Museo Jumex

Contemporary art under a sawtooth roof, across the plaza from the Soumaya

Museums & Culture · Polanco

Tranquilo $

Museo Nacional de Antropología

Mexico's great museum — the Aztec Sun Stone, the Maya rooms, and a courtyard built around a single colossal umbrella

Museums & Culture · Chapultepec

Moderado $

Museo Soumaya

The silver-scaled tower of Plaza Carso — six free floors from Rodin to Rivera

Museums & Culture · Polanco

Tranquilo Gratis

Palacio de Bellas Artes

A marble opera house wrapped in murals — Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros under one Tiffany-glass curtain

Landmarks & Architecture, Museums & Culture · Centro Histórico

Tranquilo $

Panadería Rosetta

The guava roll that launched a thousand queues, from a slip of a bakery on Colima

Food & Drink · Roma Norte

Tranquilo $

Parque La Mexicana

Santa Fe's modern park — lakes, long boardwalks, and skyline views

Parks & Outdoors · Santa Fe

Tranquilo Gratis

Parque México

Condesa's art deco oval — the city's most civilized slow lap

Parks & Outdoors · Condesa

Tranquilo Gratis

Plaza Garibaldi

Where the mariachis wait — hire a song, or a whole serenade, on the spot

Nightlife · Centro Histórico

Antes de la cirugía / próximo viaje $$

Polyforum Siqueiros

The largest mural on earth wraps a twelve-sided building in Nápoles

Landmarks & Architecture, Museums & Culture · Nápoles

Tranquilo $

Sanborns — Casa de los Azulejos

Breakfast in a 16th-century palace covered entirely in blue-and-white tiles

Food & Drink, Landmarks & Architecture · Centro Histórico

Tranquilo $$

Teotihuacán

The pyramids of the Sun and Moon, an hour outside the city — the day trip

Day Trips

Día completo $$