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Free things to do in Mexico City

Mexico City is one of the most affordable capital cities in the world for visitors...

Mexico City is one of the most affordable capital cities in the world for visitors. Whether you want to explore Aztec history, see pre-Hispanic art, or simply get a great view of this sprawling metropolis, you can do it all for free. As you explore the city, you never know what free museums, markets, and events you might stumble upon. Here are a few that you won’t want to miss...

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Finding Frida: Mexico City through the eyes of an icon

The barrier that separates past and present feels thinner in Mexico City than elsewhere in the world...

The barrier that separates past and present feels thinner in Mexico City than elsewhere in the world. The dynamic culture of the city, and by extension the country, is constantly evolving while simultaneously reaching back into its tumultuous history. The art, architecture and cuisine are all inextricably linked to the country’s indigenous roots, colonial influence and modern movement...

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Quick guide to Mexico City's best neighborhoods

Walk down tree-lined streets, past sleek skyscrapers, through historical colonial buildings and busy markets, dine in world-class restaurants or on busy street corners, and then rest your head in a modern boutique hotel. No matter where you head in Mexico City, its colonias will both surprise and delight every single one of your senses. After years of living in the shadows of its bad press, Mexico City continues to clean up not only its reputation but also its inner-city neighborhoods...

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Best Mexican restaurants in Mexico City

Mexico City is an international metropolis with everything from Korean barbecue to top class Japanese sushi...

Mexico City is an international metropolis with everything from Korean barbecue to top class Japanese sushi. You can enjoy homemade pasta at a little Italian restaurant or amazing burgers on just about every street corner. The surprisingly difficult thing is finding a Mexican restaurant where you can sample local delights in a family-style setting. Here’s a collection of the best Mexican restaurants in Mexico City...

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Discover Aztec history in Mexico City

Mexico City is a booming metropolis with cosmopolitan restaurants, world-class museums, and ultra-modern architecture popping up almost daily...

Mexico City is a booming metropolis with cosmopolitan restaurants, world-class museums, and ultra-modern architecture popping up almost daily. It’s hard to believe that this mega-city was built directly on top of what was once the capital of the Aztec Empire. Behind the skyscrapers and bourgeois cafes are hundreds of years worth of history and culture just waiting to be explored. Here’s where you should look for it...

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Mexico City: canals, cuisine and a certain sinking feeling

An age-old agricultural method is still in practice today along Mexico City’s canals of Xochimilco and it’s driving a popular farm-to-table movement at the capital’s top restaurants...

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Lucha libre – an introduction to Mexican wrestling

There’s nothing quite like Friday night fight night at the Arena México. This long-standing venue in central Mexico City is the place to see one of the country’s most raucous and dramatic sporting events, lucha libre. Mexico’s version of professional wrestling (the term literally means free-style wrestling) is one of the country’s biggest spectator activities today, eclipsed only in popularity by soccer...

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Wonderfully weird Mexico City: the Distrito Federal’s most bizarre sights

Just when you think things can’t get any stranger in Mexico City, they usually do. In fact, the sprawling capital offers so many unusual sights that you can plan a whole trip around visiting oddball places. Here are 10 experiences sure to make a lasting impression. Island of the Dolls Creepy dolls welcome you to their island home. Image by John Hecht / Lonely Planet Slasher doll Chucky would feel right at home on spooky Isla de las Muñecas...

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First Time Mexico City: make sense of the Distrito Federal

Mexico City is fast becoming one of the world’s great capitals...

Mexico City is fast becoming one of the world’s great capitals. Contrary to its reputation for being dirty, crowded and dangerous, this city has a rich history, an impressive art scene, a dynamic street culture and some of the best food in Latin America. Plaza de la Constitución aka El Zócalo, is the heart of Mexico City...

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Mexico City's best markets

Lo recorrí por años enteros, de mercado a mercado, porque México está en los mercados. (I went from market to market for years, because Mexico is in its markets...

Lo recorrí por años enteros, de mercado a mercado, porque México está en los mercados. (I went from market to market for years, because Mexico is in its markets.) Pablo Neruda Mexican traders have been setting up market stalls since pre-Hispanic times. In Mexico City alone there are over three hundred mercados (permanent markets housed within government-owned buildings) and well over a thousand tianguis (open-air mobile markets that pop up on the same day every week)...

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Mexico City's best street food

Mexico’s street food is some of the best in the world...

Mexico’s street food is some of the best in the world. And well it should be, with a pedigree dating back to pre-Hispanic times – the Spaniards were reportedly amazed when they arrived to find ready-to-eat food they called antojitos (“little cravings”) for sale on the streets and in the markets. Little has changed over the centuries and street food still plays a huge part in daily Mexican life...

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Floating life: cruising Mexico City's canals

Picture this: you're floating down a network of green canals in a colorful, open air trajinera (gondola) named Viva Lupita. Your silent boatman propels you through the waters using a long wooden pole. On the banks, barely visible through the bushes, orchards, trees and flowers, you spot small homes, children running, women hanging laundry. Musicians and refreshment vendors float alongside you in other boats, offering up food, drink and song...

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Mexico City's ultra-niche museums

With good reason, guidebooks extol the virtues of the museums in Mexico's capital, including the world-famous Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) and the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (National Anthropology Museum. These institutions house some of the country's finest art and exceptional collections of artefacts. But this megalopolis of almost nine million people has far more to show than Diego Rivera murals and Aztec totems...

Mexico City travel tips & articles

Free things to do in Mexico City

Finding Frida: Mexico City through the eyes of an icon

Quick guide to Mexico City's best neighborhoods

Best Mexican restaurants in Mexico City

Discover Aztec history in Mexico City

Mexico City: canals, cuisine and a certain sinking feeling

Lucha libre – an introduction to Mexican wrestling

Wonderfully weird Mexico City: the Distrito Federal’s most bizarre sights

First Time Mexico City: make sense of the Distrito Federal

Mexico City's best markets

Mexico City's best street food

Floating life: cruising Mexico City's canals

Mexico City's ultra-niche museums

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