Cultural Tour in Mexico City

Cultural Tour in Mexico City

Mexico City have great number of museums monuments, traditional neighborhoods, historical buildings and cutural centers.

If you love de history and pastic arts, you just need to walk along the Historic Downtown and discover the corners of the city of mexico, all the year the differente museums have interesting exhibitions, if you decide go to de museums you will not regret.

Now to mention some museums and what they have:

Bellas Artes Museum:

This place is a Palace and has two different architectual styles, for example Art Nouveau and Art Deco, those styles are located in the exterior and interior of palace.

The second floor is the most visit because has an small exhibition of murals by Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Jorge Gonzalez Camarena, Roberto Montenegro and Manuel Rodriguez, 

Chapultepec Park:

The Chapultepec Park is the largest city park in Latin America, over Central Park in New York City, this forest was outside of Tenochtitlan Arqueology Zone in Mexico City. They measuring 686 hectares.

Furthermore this park have inside a Castle and those have a beautiful exposition of historical thinks.

National History Museum at the Chapultepc Castle:

This Castle it is located in the middle of Chapultepec Park in México City, it is the only royal castle in North America, in the past was a recidence of a sovereign, the mexican Emperor Maximilian I and his consort Empress Carlota, they lives there during the second Mexican Empire.

Futhermore that castle was a Military Academy, Imperial Residence, Presidential Home and now is a National Museum of History.

This Museum is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street opposite Chapultepec Park. 

They has a significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from the Mexico´s Pre-Columbian heritage, for example the Stone of the Sun (or the Aztec Calendar Stone) and the Aztec Xochipilli Statue.

It is a National Treasure and Symbol of identity.

The Blue House

This is a historic house and art museum dedicated to the life and work of a Mexican artist "Frida Kahlo". It´s located in the Colonia del Carmen neighborhood of coyoacan in Mexico City.

This place is very important in the history of Mexico

San Fernando Cemetery museum and church

Located in Plaza de San Fernando No. 17, Col. Guerrero. Between Puente de Alvarado and Vicente Guerrero, in the heart of the city.

The church San Fernando was  built  between 1735 and 1751, by the order of the Franciscanos, it's an example of the architectural style Barroco Novohispano. 

In the beginning, it was a religious college, but when Benito Juarez was President of Mexico, he enacted the “Leyes de Reforma”. And in that time, the temple was divided in three parts, the first one was the church, the second one was a library, and the last one, a cemetery, the first two parts were stolen and some elements destroyed. 

The cemetery of San Fernando is one of the oldest cemeteries in Mexico City, and it's an example of architecture and mortuary art from the nineteenth century. The cemetery worked between 1832 and 1871.

In this place, there is tombs of important characters from Mexico's history, such as Benito Juarez, who was Mexico's president between 1858 and 1872, other character at the cemetery is Miguel Miramón, he was Mexico's interim president between 1859 and 1860. General Ignacio Zaragoza can also be found at this place.

Recently, the cemetery became a museum, it's an interesting point of the City, it's access free, and is opened every day.