Arena de México

Cost: MX$70-MX$140
Colonia Doctores is home to the Arena de México where lucha libre, Mexican wrestling, takes place. Crowds of up to 17,000 give the arena a circus-type ambience twice a week. There are three or four bouts a night.... Continue reading

Automobile Museum

Cost: MX$30; concessions MX$15
Over 100 years of car design are traced at Mexico City's Automobile Museum. The permanent collection holds more than 95 cars and is refreshed every three months. Prized makes like Rolls Royce, Chevrolet and Bugatti have made an appearance.... Continue reading

Bosque de Chapultepec

Cost: Free
The Bosque de Chapultepec is the capital's largest park and considered the lungs of Mexico City. Picnic on the sprawling grass, row out on the bright green lake or visit the zoo and number of other museums set within its grounds.... Continue reading

Chapultepec Castle

Cost: MX$51; concessions free; Sun free
Chapultepec Castle offers panoramic city views from a hill at the heart of wooded park, Bosque de Chapultepec. The former imperial and presidential palace houses the National History Museum. Visit the hall of mirrors at the base of the hill.... Continue reading

Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum

Cost: MX$55; Tue free
Housed in a grand hacienda in Xochimilco, the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum boasts 127 paintings by Spanish/Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and 25 works by Frida Kahlo, as well as collections of pre-Colombian, colonial era and folk art and artefacts.... Continue reading

El Zócalo

Cost: Free
The vast El Zócalo square throngs with locals and tourists in Mexico City's historic centre. Once the centre of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán, the city's heritage is relived daily with drum beats and conchero dancers in feathered headdresses. T... Continue reading

Floating Gardens of Xochimilco

Cost: MX$200 (per hour, per group of up to 20 people)
Once the Aztec city's breadbasket, Xochimilco is filled with canals, making up the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco. At the weekends, local families hire trajinera boats and float down the canals while enjoying a picnic. Pass by historic buildings, r... Continue reading

Franz Mayer Museum

Cost: MX$45; concessions MX$25; under-12s free
Located in Alameda Central, the Franz Mayer Museum is housed in a former hospice and peaceful retreat from the bustling city. The items featured include ceramics, silver, furniture, textiles, sculptures and paintings. All are as functional as they ... Continue reading

Frida Kahlo Museum

Cost: MX$55; concessions MX$20; under-6s free
The Frida Kahlo Museum in Coyoacán was home to the Mexican painter and her husband, Mexican/Spanish muralist Diego Rivera. Evidence of her life - clay pots, a wheelchair, pre-Colombian art - abounds. The museum also has a bookstore and café. Fri... Continue reading

Galería de Arte Mexicano

Cost: Not Specified
The Galería de Arte Mexicano has been at the nerve centre of Mexican contemporary art since it opened in 1935. Many of the artists it promotes are among the country's finest. Buy your favourite piece to take home with you.... Continue reading

Leon Trotsky Museum

Cost: MX$40; concessions MX$20
The Leon Trotsky Museum in Coyoacán, with its riflemen's watchtowers atop high stone walls, relives the period he took refuge here before he was killed. Trotsky's office has been left as it was and his grave is in the backyard.... Continue reading

Metropolitan Cathedral

Cost: Free
Metropolitan Cathedral in the Centro Histórico boasts breathtaking Hispanic Baroque flamboyance. Built in the 16th century, it is also the oldest cathedral in the Americas. Sunday evening mass features mariachis, Mexican musical groups, and the be... Continue reading

Mexico Park

Cost: Free
Built in 1926 on the site of a former horse-racing venue, the oval-shaped Mexico Park in Condesa is a welcome dose of greenery with fountains, waterfalls, ponds and a lake with swans. In spring the lilac-coloured jacarandas are in bloom.... Continue reading

Museum of Modern Art

Cost: MX$20; concessions free; Sun free
The Museum of Modern Art in Bosque de Chapultepec has permanent exhibitions featuring works by Rivera, Kahlo, Siqueiros, Tamayo and Dr Atl. It also hosts temporary exhibits of the work of international artists and there's a popular sculpture garden... Continue reading

National Museum of Anthropology

Cost: MX$51; concessions & under-13s free
A modernist architectural masterpiece and the city's finest museum, the National Museum of Anthropology in Chapultepec brings Mexico's history and ethnography to life. The display on the Spanish conquest is especially fascinating, and there's lots ... Continue reading

National Museum of San Carlos

Cost: MX$28; students & seniors & under 13s free; free Sun
Trace European art from the 14th century to the start of the 20th century at the National Museum of San Carlos in Mexico City's Cuauhtémoc district. The permanent exhibition explores neoclassicism, Romanticism, Renaissance art and other trends.... Continue reading

National Palace

Cost: Free
Built in 1563, the National Palace in the Centro Histórico houses the presidential office and Federal Treasury. Most impressive are the several extensive murals by Mexican/Spanish muralist Rivera. The botanical gardens display a well-tended collec... Continue reading

Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica

Cost: Free
Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica is a bold architectural statement and national icon. Built in Guadalupe in 1976, it houses a cloak said to show the face of Mexico's patron saint. There is also a 17th-century basilica and museum on site. The present... Continue reading

Palacio de Bellas Artes

Cost: MX$35; Sun free
The Palacio de Bellas Artes in Alameda Central is a flamboyant hybrid of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, best known for its immense murals. It also has an architecture museum and a folklore museum, an elegant bookstore, a café, and temporary exhibitions... Continue reading

Plaza de las Tres Culturas

Cost: Free
Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco neighbourhood reflects the three stages of Mexican civilisation. See Aztec ruins, the Catholic church of Santiago Tlatelolco which dates from 1609 and the modern Ministry of Foreign Affairs building. Th... Continue reading