Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The shrine at the foot of Tepeyac hill where, by tradition, the Virgin appeared to Juan Diego in 1531. The round basilica by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, consecrated in 1976, holds the cloak bearing her image; beside it stand the old basilica of 1709, chapels and a path up the hill.
An amusement park in the second section of Chapultepec Park, opened in March 2024 on the site of the old Feria de Chapultepec, which closed in 2019. It has a large Ferris wheel, roller coasters and family rides set among gardens, food stalls and a lake.
A park of more than 680 hectares west of the centre, around the hill once sacred to the Mexica. Its first section holds Chapultepec Castle, the National Museum of Anthropology, the Museo Tamayo, the Museum of Modern Art, a zoo and boating lakes, with woods, monuments and paths.
An art museum founded by Carlos Slim and named after his late wife, in a building by Fernando Romero at Plaza Carso, opened in 2011 and clad in 16,000 hexagonal aluminium tiles. Six floors show Mexican and European art, from Old Masters to one of the largest collections of Rodin sculpture outside France.
The house in Coyoacán where Leon Trotsky lived in exile with Natalia Sedova from 1939 and was killed in 1940. Rooms and his study are kept as they were, with bullet marks from an earlier attack; his grave is in the garden, and a modern wing holds exhibitions on the right of asylum.
The cobalt-blue house in Coyoacán where Frida Kahlo was born, lived with Diego Rivera and died in 1954. Rivera gave the house and its contents to become a museum, opened in 1958: her studio, bedroom and kitchen, paintings by Kahlo and Rivera, folk art and her clothes.
Two functionalist houses in San Ángel designed by Juan O'Gorman for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, built in 1931–32 and linked by a bridge between their roofs. Rivera's red house keeps his studio with his brushes, Judas figures and furniture; Kahlo's blue house shows how the couple lived and worked.
A museum designed by Diego Rivera in Coyoacán to house his collection of pre-Hispanic art, built of dark volcanic stone in a style recalling Mesoamerican temples and opened in 1964, after his death. Its rooms hold thousands of ancient figures; the roof terrace looks over the lava field of El Pedregal.
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