Alameda Central

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Alameda Central is Mexico City's only sizable downtown park and is surrounded by some of the city's most interesting buildings and museums. Created in the late 1500s by then-Viceroy Luis de Velasco, the park took its name from the álamos (poplars) planted over its rectangular expanse. It's particularly popular on Sunday, when fam­ilies congregate.

Under the administration of Mayor López Obrador, the Alameda and adjacent Avenida Juárez underwent ambitious redevelopment. The Foreign Relations Secretariat towers, designed by leading architect Ricardo Legorreta, and Sheraton Centro Histórico have transformed the look of the corridor, much of which was destroyed in the 1985 earthquake.