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On today's menu of Spanish for Expats: Iztacalco!

Iztacalco Art, history and traditions. Inhabited since pre-Hispanic times, Iztacalco has created its own history, which is a reflection of the urban population, which was originally from an island and expanded with the cultivation from chinampas. The old distribution network of canals divides the current neig...

The Basilica Guadalupe The Basilica Guadalupe is one of the holiest places in Catholicism. The second most visited temple in the world after St. Peter; it annually receives 40 million visitors between pilgrims and tourists. Every day thousands of people on pilgrimage climb up the Calzada de Guadalupe. They come from all q...

San Angel San Angel arose around the large Ex Convent Carmen. The heavenly fruit gardens of the convent attracted the capital's aristocracy, who found here the perfect place for their holiday homes. And so the picturesque San Ángel was built. Narrow cobbled streets, beautiful colonial style houses with large…

La Condesa La Condesa is located in the central area of Mexico City and includes the colonies Condesa, Hipódromo and Hipódromo-Condesa. Condesa was built in 1902 on the grounds of the Hacienda de la Condesa de Miravalle. The house of this hacienda is now the residence of the embassy of Russia. Av. Amsterdam, o...

UNAM Did you know that Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM) campus in Mexico City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007? It may seem weird that a university campus could receive this recognition, but if you learn more about the history of the UNAM and everything that surrounds it, t...

La Roma The majority of the aristocracy used to live in Roma and it had a European ambiance (mostly French), which you can still see today. It is easy to spend a couple days just wandering around the neighborhood, enjoying the beautiful colonial architecture which includes Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and moderni...

Xochimilco Xochimilco are chinampas, trajineras, museums, markets of flowers & plants, parishes, parks and forests. The canals of Xochimilco and the traditional system of cultivation of chinampas are a World Heritage Site. From its ten docks come leave more than 200 colorful trajineras to cross the canals, who...

La Ciudadela A colorful party unfolds every step of the way in this handicraft market: shelves with skulls, jars, jaguar heads made of black clay, wood or decorated with Huichol; Traditional toys, palm baskets, saddlery; vases, pots and dishes of talavera; Alebrijes or reproductions of prehispanic pieces. All th...

Soumaya Museum Museo Soumaya de Plaza Carso is located in the urban conversion area called Nuevo Polanco. It was inaugurated on March 29, 2011 by then-President Felipe Calderón, with the assistance of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez together with many other people.

Templo Mayor On February 21, 1978, workers from the national electricity utility found the sculpture of Coyolxauhqui, which was excavated by an INAH team. The finding was a starting point for the study of the Mexica culture. And, after five centuries, the Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan was exposed.

Exconvento Desierto de los Leones Jumping out in the middle of a forest, the former Convent Desierto de los Leonees imposes itself with a somber but striking colonial architecture. Its origins go back to the seventeenth century, when the order of the Discalced Carmelites sought a place which was devoted to Christian retreat and medi...

Have you been to the Sanborns restaurant inside Casa de los Azulejos? This is why you should pay a visit..

Casa de los Azulejos The House of the Azulejos is one of the most beautiful civil works of baroque New Spain. It is a work of art framed by talavera that completely covers its facade. It is said that it was a refuge of the sympathizers of the conqueror Hernán Cortés.

Museo de Frida Kahlo Located on London Street in Coyoacán, one of the most beautiful and old neighborhoods in Mexico City, Casa Azul was converted into a museum in 1958, four years after the death of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

Zócalo When you are in Mexico City, one of the first things that you have to do is to visit the Zócalo, it is the heart of Mexico City, also called Plaza de la Constitución. Mexicans started to call it the Zócalo, meaning “base”, when in the 19th century, the plans for an important monument to independence...

Have you climbed the Torre Latinoamericana already? It is the most popular viewpoint in Mexico City and as such represents the most touristic building in the center. It is a 188-meter high building with 44 floors, which was also the tallest building in the city from its construction in 1956 to 1972.

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Do you know the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts)? It's the most important cultural center of Mexico and has been the scene of the most outstanding artists at national and international level. Porfirio Diaz ordered the construction of the Palace of Fine Arts to commemorate the Centennial of the Beginning of the Independence of Mexico. It began to be built in 1904 by the Italian architect Adamo Boari, 30 years later it was finalized. The building is art nouveau in the exterior and art deco in the interior. Find out more..

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Palace of the Inquisition The building of the Palace of Inquisition dates from New Spain and the Viceroyalty, in fact, is one of the best examples of the architecture novohispana of the first half of century XVIII. The palace was built by the architect Pedro Arrieta. It is attached to the Faculty of Medicine of the National…

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Once you get over the ew of eating spicy grasshoppers or a creamy winged-ant salsa, you’ll find some high-protein cuisine that is organic and definitely tasty. Really. For centuries it wasn’t meat that sustained Aztec warriors but protein-rich, fat-free stink bugs, mescal worms and fly eggs. Mexico has the world’s highest number of edible insects and many of them aren’t all that odd when you sit them alongside caviar, prawns and escargot.

Puerto Vallarta is a fun place to visit and enjoy your holidays. This destination provides every kind of attractions sites a tourist can ever imagine. Puerto Vallarta is a city located at the Pacific Ocean side of Mexico. It is a modernized city with advanced infrastructural facilities, educational institutions and an organized administrative authority managing the region under the Mexican government. Puerto Vallarta can be accessed by air plane to its international airport called Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport operating at the northern part of the city.

San Cristobal, one of Mexico’s best-preserved Spanish colonial towns, is made up of a series of traditional barrios (neighborhoods), each of which is known for a particular trade or custom, such as iron working, carpentry and woodcarving.

*Mexican Love* A romantic and colorful picture of a couple dressed in traditional Mexican clothing kissing behind a sombrero. Isn't this a beautiful image?

The valley of Cuatrocienagas in central Coahuila has the greatest number of endemic species of any place in North America. With its high biodiversity and more than 70 endemic species, this approximately 1000 square km desert valley that lies about 270 km SSE of Big Bend National Park, Texas ranks near the Galapagos Islands in terms of the world's unique ecosystems.

Peña de Bernal (in English: Bernal's Boulder or Bernal Peak) is a 433 m (1,421ft) tall monolith, one of the tallest in the world. Peña de Berbal is located in San Sebastián Bernal, a small town in the Mexican state of Querétaro. Many people perform a pilgrimage to the small chapel located at the highest point accessible through hiking.
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Go to Estado de Mexico and discover this beautiful village gifted with an extraordinary prehispanic sanctuary and an interesting ex-convent decorated with murals. Walking through Malinalco is immersing yourself in a mystical place where the prehispanic past and colonial memories combine.

Beautifully decorated barrels in a mezcal brewery in Jalisco.