Pueblos Mágicos in Ciudad de México

Cities and towns in Ciudad de México

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  Ciudad de México · City · Ciudad de México
  Mexico's capital, built over Aztec Tenochtitlan at 2,240 m: about 170 museums, 16 boroughs and some 9.2 million people in the city proper.
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  Mixcoac · Town · Ciudad de México
  A former town swallowed by the city in 1928: a kiosk plaza, a Dominican convent, Gómez Farías's house and an Aztec pyramid beside the Periférico.
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  San Gregorio Atlapulco · Town · Ciudad de México
  Xochimilco's farming town below Teuhtli volcano: chinampas still worked, a patron-saint fiesta on 12 March and marigold fields for Day of the Dead.
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  San Miguel Ajusco · Town · Ciudad de México
  An original Tlalpan village at about 2,900 m below the volcano: a 1707 church, St Michael fairs in May and September, and the gateway to the national park.
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  San Pedro Cuajimalpa · Town · Ciudad de México
  Original village and seat of its borough on the Mexico–Toluca road: a church begun in 1628, Jardín Hidalgo, the market and a huehuenches carnival.
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  Coyoacán · Town · Ciudad de México
  Cortés's first seat of New Spain, later home to Frida Kahlo and Trotsky: twin plazas, a 16th-century parish, a market and cobbled streets.
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  San Ángel · Town · Ciudad de México
  Cobbled lanes, a Carmelite convent with tiled domes and mummies, the Saturday art bazaar on Plaza San Jacinto, and Rivera and Kahlo's twin studios.
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  Xochimilco · Town · Ciudad de México
  The last of the Aztec lake world: about 170 km of canals and chinampas, a UNESCO site since 1987, toured by painted trajinera at an official 750 pesos an hour.
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  Milpa Alta · Town · Ciudad de México
  Mexico City's rural, Nahuatl-speaking south: nopal fields, a 16th-century Franciscan church, Zapata's barracks and the October mole fair.
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  Tlalpan · Town · Ciudad de México
  Quiet cobbled centre of old San Agustín de las Cuevas, briefly capital of the State of Mexico, with a Barragán chapel and a 19th-century market.
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  San Salvador Cuauhtenco · Town · Ciudad de México
  A Milpa Alta pueblo originario with a Baroque church of the Divino Salvador, a market by the atrium and an August 6-9 fiesta with seed-and-foliage portals.

Travel regions in Ciudad de México

Highlights of Ciudad de México

The places most worth the trip, chosen from the 91 with a page.

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  Cuahilama · Archaeological site · Ciudad de México
  Hill with 15th-century petroglyphs in Santa Cruz Acalpixca, Xochimilco: free entry, a half-hour climb and views over the canals.
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  Cerro del Tepeyac · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  The hill above the Basilica: 18th-century stairways, the Capilla del Cerrito with Fernando Leal's murals, a historic cemetery and a view of the valley.
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  Lago de Chalco · Lake · Ciudad de México
  The lake that was drained and came back: a wetland between Tláhuac and Valle de Chalco, protected since 2024, with pelicans in winter.
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  Cerro de la Estrella · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  Iztapalapa's hill, where the Mexica lit the New Fire every 52 years and where the Iztapalapa Passion play ends each Good Friday.
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  Copilco · Archaeological site · Ciudad de México
  A Preclassic village buried under Xitle's lava, tunnelled into by Manuel Gamio in 1917; its site museum closed to the public in the early 1980s.
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  San Pedro Atocpan · Village · Ciudad de México
  Milpa Alta's mole village: nearly everyone here grinds or sells mole almendrado, and each October it hosts the Feria Nacional del Mole.
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  Estadio GNP Seguros · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  The former Foro Sol in the Magdalena Mixhuca sports city: concerts for up to 65,000, the Vive Latino festival and baseball from 2000 to 2014.
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  Tacubaya · Village · Ciudad de México
  West Mexico City neighbourhood with Parque Lira, Casa de la Bola, Barragán's house and a hub of Metro, Metrobús and city buses.
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  San Andrés Totoltepec · Village · Ciudad de México
  An original village of Tlalpan below the Ajusco, with a 1770s church, a Thursday street market, a big feast on 30 November and the Cuernavaca bike path.
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  Bosque de Tlalpan · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  A 253-hectare urban park on Xitle lava: running tracks, mountain trails, a duck lake and traces of Cuicuilco. Open daily.
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  Pueblo de Iztacalco · Village · Ciudad de México
  A former lake-island town in east Mexico City: Franciscan San Matías church, a market and barrio chapels, a short walk from Metro Iztacalco.
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  Cerro Judío · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  A 2,750 m hill above San Bernabé Ocotepec, with a restored Otomí pyramid, three crosses at the top and views over the city.
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  Cerro del Chiquihuite · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  A 2,730 m volcanic dome in the Sierra de Guadalupe, topped by antennas and ringed by homes; Templo Mayor stone came from here. Cablebús Line 1 serves it.
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  Santiago Acahualtepec · Village · Ciudad de México
  An original village of Iztapalapa that lived off tezontle quarrying: a church with an indigenous-style façade, a free community museum and a July 25 feast.
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  Lago de los Reyes Aztecas · Lake · Ciudad de México
  San Pedro Tláhuac's boat landing: trajineras past vegetable chinampas, herons and ducks, with fewer boats and crowds than Xochimilco.
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  San Antonio Tecómitl · Village · Ciudad de México
  A Milpa Alta pueblo originario with a 16th-century Franciscan church, the Olla de Piedra chapel and one of the city's busiest Day of the Dead cemeteries.
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  San Jerónimo Lídice · Village · Ciudad de México
  Old village of Aculco with a 1713 baroque church, a 16th-century open chapel and a plaza that remembers Lidice every 10 June.
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  Militar Marte · Village · Ciudad de México
  A 1950s planned colonia for army families, with streets named after beaches, the David Záizar park and a Christmas nativity scene.
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  Parque nacional Fuentes Brotantes de Tlalpan · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  National park declared in 1936, with Ajusco springs, a lake of ducks and turtles, trails and food stalls; about 8 of its 129 hectares remain.
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  Iztapalapa de Cuitláhuac · Village · Ciudad de México
  Eight-barrio original village north of Cerro de la Estrella; the San Lucas church and the Holy Week Passion play are what visitors come for.
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  Santa Ana Tlacotenco · Village · Ciudad de México
  A Milpa Alta pueblo among cornfields and nopal, with a 17th-century church, living Nahuatl and the feast of Santa Ana on 26 July.
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  Parres El Guarda · Village · Ciudad de México
  A Tlalpan pueblo originario at nearly 3,000 m on the old Cuernavaca road: hacienda ruins, lamb barbacoa and a stop on the railway bikeway.
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  Santa Rosa Xochiac · Village · Ciudad de México
  Forest-edge village below the Desierto de los Leones, known for its Christmas trees, a 1.2 km sawdust carpet and a year of patron-saint festivals.
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  Bosque de San Juan de Aragón · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  A 162-hectare urban forest in northern Mexico City with a lake, a 5 km running loop and a free zoo next door; Metro Bosque de Aragón (Line B).

Map of Ciudad de México

Every place in Ciudad de México, by municipality

91 places with their own page in 15 municipalities.

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