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    View down Paseo de la Reforma and its skyscrapers from Chapultepec Castle, Ciudad de México

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    Paseo de la Reforma

    Landmark Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México Municipality of Cuauhtémoc Valley of Mexico

    Maximilian's imperial boulevard: glorietas, monuments and skyscrapers like Torre Mayor, closed to cars on Sunday mornings for cycling.

    From Toluca: 1 h 5 min by car (63 km by road) How to get there ↓

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    How to get to Paseo de la Reforma

    • From Toluca: about 1 h 5 min by road (~63 km)
    • Nearest airport: Mexico City (Felipe Ángeles) (NLU), 48 min by car to Tepotzotlán
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    Popular tours to Paseo de la Reforma

    Mexico City Segway Tour: Reforma Avenue ★ 4.6 (19) 1 h 30 min From US$59
    Zona Rosa and Chapultepec Forest Cultural Walking Tour ★ 5.0 (4) 2 h From US$17
    Chapultepec Park and Reforma Avenue 2 h 30 min From US$39

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    About Paseo de la Reforma

    Paseo de la Reforma is Mexico City's grand diagonal avenue, about 14.7 km long, running from Santa Fe and Lomas de Chapultepec in the west, through Chapultepec Park, past the Zona Rosa and Colonia Juárez to the edge of the historic center, and on north to Tlatelolco. Its classic stretch, the one people mean when they say Reforma, is the tree-lined section between Chapultepec and the old Caballito roundabout, lined with monuments, hotels and the city's tallest towers.

    It began as an imperial whim. In 1864 Emperor Maximilian had Austrian engineers lay out a European-style boulevard from the city's edge to his residence at Chapultepec Castle and named it Paseo de la Emperatriz after Carlota. After the empire fell, the road opened to the public in 1867 and in 1872 took the name of the liberal Reform. Porfirio Díaz turned it into an open-air history book, with statues of liberal heroes along its sides and monuments in the great roundabouts, the glorietas: the Monument to Cuauhtémoc at Insurgentes, the Ángel de la Independencia of 1910, and later the Diana Cazadora fountain of 1942. The glorietas keep changing: Columbus's statue was taken down in 2020 and an anti-monument now stands in its place, and in 2022 the century-old palm in the Glorieta de la Palma died and was replaced by an ahuehuete tree, giving the roundabout its new name.

    The skyline came later. Torre Mayor, 225 meters tall and finished in 2003 on the site of the old Cine Chapultepec, was the tallest building in Latin America until 2010 and was designed to ride out very strong earthquakes; Torre Reforma, at 244 meters, now tops it nearby. Since 2018 the Paseo de las Heroínas has added statues of notable Mexican women between the Diana and the Estela de Luz. The best time to know Reforma is a Sunday morning: since May 2007 the Muévete en Bici program closes it to cars so that families, cyclists, skaters and runners can take over the lanes, and Metrobús Line 7 runs along it the rest of the week.

    How to get to Paseo de la Reforma

    Drive from Toluca: 1 h 5 min, 63 km

    Metrobús Line 7 runs the length of central Reforma, from Campo Marte by the Auditorio Nacional through Chapultepec, La Diana, El Ángel, El Ahuehuete, Reforma, París, El Caballito and Hidalgo, and on north to Indios Verdes. Metrobús Line 1 crosses it at the Reforma stop on Insurgentes. By Metro, Chapultepec (Line 1) serves the west end and Hidalgo (Lines 2 and 3) the east end. Ecobici bike docks line the avenue, and there is a separated bike lane along it.

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    Before you go to Paseo de la Reforma: hours, prices and tips

    Hours
    Muévete en Bici closes Reforma and other avenues to motor traffic on Sundays, generally 8 am to 2 pm; you can join anywhere along the route. Routes can change for special events. Infobae · checked Oct 2026
    Entry
    The Sunday ride is free and needs no registration. Infobae · checked Oct 2026
    Guide or tour
    No guide needed. The free Biciescuela Dominical at La Diana and El Caballito (9 am to 1 pm) teaches riding and lends bikes and helmets during its classes. Infobae · checked Oct 2026
    Rules
    Obey traffic lights and crossings and the staff's directions; slower riders, skaters and people walking with children or dogs keep to the side by the curb. Infobae · checked Oct 2026

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    Visiting Paseo de la Reforma: what to see and do

    Ride or walk the closed lanes during Muévete en Bici on Sunday morning, 8 am to 2 pm.
    Circle the Ángel de la Independencia, the avenue's best-known glorieta.
    See the Diana Cazadora fountain and the Paseo de las Heroínas statues west of it.
    Look up at Torre Mayor and Torre Reforma near the Chapultepec end.
    Stop at the Glorieta del Ahuehuete, where a young ahuehuete replaced the famous palm in 2022.
    Visit the Monument to Cuauhtémoc at Insurgentes and the anti-monument in the former Columbus glorieta.
    Browse the painters who set up every Sunday at the Jardín del Arte near the Reforma Metrobús stop.

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