Our tour starts visiting the most important icon of Mexico City: the Independence Angel. Located in the famed Paseo de la Reforma avenue, this monument is dedicated to liberty and Mexican heroes. You can listen from our guide the history and meaning of the sculptures and the most famous column of the city.

This is the artistic symbol of the nation, the first art museum in Mexico and the biggest cultural place of the country. Architecturally is inspired in art noveau, but it has art deco elements that invoke the love for Mexico through esthetic elements. Inside there are works of Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco.

We’ll have at our feet the best view of the historic center of Mexico City. From the Latin American Tower we can see the four cardinal points looking at the horizon where this city ends.

We’ll walk through the most famous streets of the historic center, where we’ll appreciate an infinity of colonial buildings with exquisite architecture from XVI to XIX centuries, such as the temple of San Felipe Neri or the Iturbide Palace.

Later, we’ll walk until the main point of the historic center, popularly known as Zocalo, also named as Constitution Square, one of the biggest in the world.

Located at the side of the Zocalo, the Metropolitan Cathedral, the biggest in Latin America, is the main religious center from viceroyalty, because its great dimensions and architectural value.

This cathedral was constructed with the stones, that once formed part of the Major Temple of Tenochtitlan and the temple of Huitzilopochtli. Inside there are inspired baroque, herrerian, gothic, neoclassic and renaissance styles. Also, we can appreciate the sacristy, the two monumental organs and many more artistic treasures.

We’ll visit the National Palace, a place that was the residency of Moctezuma emperor and was replaced by a new edification, ordered by Hernan Cortes. This building was, during several centuries, residency and government center of the viceroys of the New Spain, and nowadays is the headquarter of Federal Mexican Government.

We’ll appreciate a mural of 276 square meters, divided in three areas, was painted during 22 years by the famous muralist Diego Rivera. In this monumental work are addressed themes from the history of prehispanic Mexico, the arrive of Spanish, the Tenochtitlan conquest, the two world syncretism, evangelization, independence, the war versus the United States and France and the Mexican Revolution.

A must place for your sight, but requires the voice of a guide.

To end, we’ll know the scale models of the ancient Mexico Tenochtitlan, capital of Aztecs. We’ll enter to the Major Temple Museum and there we’ll see the archeological rests of the temple. Also, in the same place we’ll visit some rooms dedicated to history, culture and Aztec deities, such as Huitzilopochtli, solar god of war, and Tlaloc, god of rain. We’ll appreciate too the most important pieces of the museum: the relief of Tlaltecuhtli, goddess of land and the monolith of Coyolxauhqui.

The tour ends taking you back to your hotel.