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Mexico City: History, Art, and Markets

Mexico City: History, Art, and Markets

Mexico City · Mexico

14 stops6.1 km7 h 6 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk from the Templo Mayor ruins through churches, civic spaces, museums, and lively markets, seeing how many sides of Mexico City meet along one route. Take your time in the Zócalo and Constitution Plaza, then move indoors for art and city views. Finish among food stalls, crafts, and the Monument to the Revolution for a welcoming look at the city’s layers and everyday energy.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Templo Mayor

    Templo Mayor

    The layered heart of Mexica power, built upward around twin gods of war and rain.

  2. Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

    Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

    A cathedral built over nearly two hundred and fifty years, on the former sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan.

  3. Zócalo

    Zócalo

    A ceremonial center turned national stage, carrying Tenochtitlan beneath its formal Spanish name.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Constitution Plaza

    Constitution Plaza

    Constitution Plaza, an attraction in Mexico City, Mexico

  6. National Palace

    National Palace

    The National Palace is an attraction in Mexico City, Mexico.

  7. Monument to the Mexican National Identity

    Monument to the Mexican National Identity

    Monument to the Mexican National Identity in Mexico City

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

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  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.