WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO?

Distrito Federal

If you decide to visit the Distrito Federal (Federal District - otherwise known as Mexico City), reserve a room in one of the hotels on the Paseo de la Reforma or in Polanco, one of the best hotels zones in the city, where you will have at your disposal a grand quantity of shops, gallaries, cafés and restaurants. To begin the day, make your way to the Auditorio Nacional (National Auditorium), where you will board the Turibus that will take you around the most traditional places in the city. It begins with the Paseo de la Reforma, one of the most beautiful avenues in the city, along which you will encounter some of the most important museums in Mexico such as the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), as well as the heartbeat of the city, the Bosque de Chapultepec (Chapultepec Forest). You will visit the area of town known as Condesa, where you can enjoy the Bohemian culture of the city through its cafés and bookshops. You will be in awe of the modern architecture of buildings like the Torre Mayor, the city?s tallest building, and you can contemplate the artistic monuments that adorn the Paseo de la Reforma. Among these are the Diana Cazadora and the Columna de la Independencia (Independence Column), also called the "Angel." Head to the Plaza de la Constitución, better known as the Zócalo, where you can witness one of the most beautiful and largest cathedrals in the world, as well as the Palacio Nacional (National Palace) and the Museo del Templo Mayor, where you will see the archeological remains of one of the main buildings in ancient Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. To conclude the trip, tour the avenue of Insurgentes and do not miss visiting San Ángel, in whose streets of colonial beauty you will find numerous handicraft shops, works of art and antiques.