Top things to do in Mexico City
Start in the Zócalo, one of the largest public squares in the world, flanked by the Metropolitan Cathedral and the excavated pyramids of the Templo Mayor — the ceremonial heart of Aztec Tenochtitlan, rediscovered by utility workers in 1978. A few blocks away, the marble Palacio de Bellas Artes pairs an Art Nouveau exterior with murals by Diego Rivera and an Art Deco stage curtain of nearly a million pieces of glass.
Head south to Coyoacán for cobblestone plazas and the cobalt-blue Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo's childhood home and now a museum of her life and work. For a dose of devotion, the Basílica de Guadalupe, Mexico's most visited shrine, draws millions of pilgrims each year to the hillside where the Virgin is said to have appeared in 1531.
