What Came Before
History
TODO — what history in Mexico City are actually worth the time.
3 placesCentro Histórico
Palacio Nacional and the Rivera Murals
Diego Rivera's history of Mexico, painted across a staircase over sixteen years, in the building where the president works.
Tlatelolco
Plaza de las Tres Culturas
An Aztec temple, a colonial church and a modernist housing block around one square, and a massacre in 1968 that the state denied for decades.
Ampliación Daniel Garza
Casa Luis Barragán
The house of Mexico's greatest modern architect, kept exactly as he left it, and visitable only by booked tour.