Mexico City
This is the most impressive city of Mexico, and the largest city in the Americas today. More than a quarter of all Mexicans live here, over the once Lake Texcoco, where first the Aztec built their Ancient City of Tenochtitlan and later it became the Capitol of the New Spain from 1521 until the Independence of Mexico in 1810.
Programs are tailored to visit Mexico's finest museums, art collections, famous murals, remarkable colonial art treasures, contemporary Mexican cuisine, as well as vestiges from the ancient Teotihuacan to the Aztec civilizations.
Things to see and do
City and Surroundings
Mexico's grandest Museums such as the former home of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Casa Azul, Casa Barragan, Leon Trotsky etc.
The stunning Templo Mayor former Aztec pyramid.
Amazing Murals by famous artists such as Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo.
The most devout of all Roman Catholic Spiritual centers in Latin America at the basilica of La Virgen de Guadalupe.
Spanish language learning schools
The National Museum of Anthropology is considered one of the world's finest Anthropology Museums.
Mariachi Plaza Garibaldi.
The floating Gardens of Xochimilco.
Imposing Modern Architectural Buildings by famous Mexican Architects from Luis Barragan, Legorreta etc.
Outskirts
Fabulous Ancient Cities of Teotihuacan, Malinalco, Cuicuilco, Tula etc.
Colonial Treasures such as Tepoztlan, Acolman etc.
World Famous pottery life trees in small town of Metepec.
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