The Independence Angel

("The Angel of Independence"), most commonly known by the shortened name El Ángel and officially known as Columna de la Independencia, is a victory column located on a roundabout over Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City.
El Ángel was built to commemorate the centennial of the beginning of Mexico's War of Independence, celebrated in 1910. In later years it was made into a mausoleum for the most important heroes of that war. It is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Mexico City, and it has become a focal point for both celebration or protest. It bears a resemblance to the Victory Column in Berlin.

Visitors are allowed to enter the monument, view the memorial plaques at the base level, and climb to the top of the tower. Entrance is free. Visitors sign in and temporarily surrender their photo identification for a colored tag on a lanyard. Groups of about 12 are then allowed into the monument for about 15 minutes. There are more than 200 stairs, and the climb is ardurous. The first approximately 15 stairs, in the base, are wide and comfortable. The stairs in the column itself, approximately 185, are circular, metal, very narrow and without a landing or resting point until one reaches the top. Visitors who are not in good physical shape will find the climb exhausting -- it is the equivalent of climbing a 12 story building in one go, and those not comfortable with tight spaces should avoid the climb as there is insufficient room to allow others to bypass. Some areas of the staircase are very dark, and there are only a few slits to let in light. The top balcony, though narrow, offers a commanding view of the wide avenues that surround the column. The return trip down is by way of the same circular staircase




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The National Museum of Anthropology

The National Museum of Anthropology located in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from the pre-Columbian heritage of Mexico, such as the Piedra del Sol (the Aztec calendar stone) and the 16th-century Aztec statue of Xochipilli.


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Coyoacan

Coyoacan is one of the areas of the city in which the colonial legacy can really be appreciated; some decades ago it used to be located on the outskirts of the city and it is now located entirely in it, but it still conserves its traditional Mexican character, which in addition to its beautiful plazas, streets and houses, has attracted a great number of artists, and has given it a pleasant intellectual atmosphere.

Coyoacan has its origins in the prehispanic era in which it constituted a population located south of one of the lakes which in that era covered great part of the Valley of México, but it obtained more importance a little after the fall of Tenochtitlán, because as this area was reconstructed to make place for what is known today as the Historical Centre, the capital of the New Spain was established in Coyoacan. With the passing years, Coyoacan became a weekend getaway for the richest families of the time, and it wasn’t until well into the 20th Century when Coyoacan left its agricultural calling as it was totally swallowed up by the city, becoming one of the most typical neighborhoods in México.

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan, which in Nahuatl means "City of the Gods" or "The place where gods are made" is one of the most impressive of Mexico and the world, being the place where the spiritual and material Mesoamerican peoples, generated the highest expression of architecture, urban planning and art of the Americas.

Teotihuacan's history began around 600 BC, when some of the small farming villages of the Valley of Mexico began to specialize in the production of various products, which eventually began to share with neighboring peoples and for the year 200 BC these people settled in the area contributing their respective philosophies and knowledge in making jewelry, pottery, tools, etc., generating a great commercial and cultural ferment which over the years, motivate the influence of culture Teotihuacan extended to all corners of Mesoamerica.

Also in this archaeological site is a large number of palaces like Quetzalpapalotl and several well-preserved murals, as recounted in a very refined and beautiful way of seeing the world of this culture, it disappeared mysteriously, apparently by a series of climatic and social factors that caused his fall to the eighth century AD

The National Auditorium

The National Auditorium is a performing arts center, located in Paseo de la Reforma, Polanco, Chapultepec in Mexico City in front of the hotel zone of Polanco, close to Campo Marte.

The National Auditorium is the main place of entertainment in Mexico in addition to being considered one of the best in the world is the work of Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez and Gonzalo Ramirez of the Deaf, and renovated by Abraham ingeralmente Zabludovsky and Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon.

In the National Auditorium for concerts of music, art, theater and dance from other genres.
It also has the National Auditorium Lunario for approximately a thousand people for smaller concerts.

Outside in the yard are located sculptures "The Moon" by Juan Soriano and Three golden figures "of Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon. Under the stairs was opened a walk of fame Auditorium steel castings with the handprints of different artists.

At the National Auditorium were presented singers and groups in the highest category as Cold Play, Sarah Brightman, Miguel Bose.

Latin American Tower

Considered for many years the tallest building in Mexico and Latin America, the Latin American Tower is a source of pride for the inhabitants of the metropolis because during its construction engineering broke several records using Mexican technology in addition to having withstood without damage earthquakes 1957 and 1985, and now despite no longer be the tallest building in the city, having been overtaken by the Pemex Tower, World Trade Center and more recently for the Torre Mayor, the Latin American Tower retains a especially among the inhabitants of the city to be the classic skyscrapers of the city and one of its most distinctive urban landmarks.




The Latin American Tower began construction in 1949 to be completed seven years later in 1956, when it opened on 30 April of that year. During its construction were taken into account for that time new aspects regarding its foundation, since when located in a seismic zone we used a system of rails that protect the structure from damage. Thus emerged a year later withstood his first test unscathed resist the earthquake of 1957, which earned him international recognition as the tallest building that had withstood an earthquake of such magnitude without damage. Then again overcome other evidence in the 1985 earthquake to be a source of pride for Mexican engineering.

This skyscraper has 43 floors of offices and a satellite from which signals are transmitted radio and television. This tower also offers a viewpoint on all three floors of the structure where you can get excellent views of the city.

Xochimilco

Xochimilco is characterized by the existence of channels that gave a special dye in the Valley of Anahuac. This site, the topography and flow from a series of springs at the edge of the mountains, has to now be an attractive place with its canals, floating gardens, with flowers, adorned with trajineras, inviting you to visit sites Federal District's most picturesque.

For the idiosyncrasies of its inhabitants, a town in the center of the city, made by the Spanish, Creoles, mestizos, nobles and around, two types of settlements in the suburbs of the city, neighborhoods and on the slopes of the mountains, people all settlements of Indians in the town center of town stands a huge building that the century of the conquest was the convent of San Bernardino of Siena, patron saint of the city and jurisdiction, and in each tecpan or center neighborhood or town, at different times small chapels were built, led, not by surveyors, engineers or architects, but for builders and craftsmen who had assimilated the architectural guidelines of the new culture, so they appear small chapels called popular different styles in the composition and design errors.

"The settlements of Mexico and Xochimilco, built of blocks from cattle to a large lake, enclosed in a valley at 2200 meters high, are eloquent evidence of the creative spirit and man's efforts to form a habitat in half unfavorable geographical. " (Declaration and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, UNESCO 1987).

Chapultepec

Visitors can make the next trip without leaving the green bars, the first Viceroy Velasco put them when they sought out hunting Chapultepec: handing over the Lions Gate or the Metro station you arrive at Children's Memorial Heroes. This site, also called "Altar de la Patria" honors the six cadets who were killed during the assault on the Castle on 13 September by U.S. troops. The offerings of diplomats and politicians in this Chamber septembrinas kicking off festivities. To the right is the entrance reopened Museum of Modern Art, on the left up the road that leads to the castle. In the Site Museum and Information Centre which is behind the tall columns representing each of the young cadets, we consider the vehicle that goes from around the Forest.

Continuing along the Grand Avenue will reach the lakes. On the right is the Lake House and later the main entrance to Zoo. On the left side, and lost tie in to the Paseo de la Calzada Composers of Poets and the Philosophers. After the last one left is the Fountain of the Frogs, throwing jets of water from its eight mouths to the swan in the center, perched on a turtle. The fountain, made of ceramic Seville is equal to the Garden Maria Luisa, Spain.

The last road to the west leads to the Garden of the Third Age, the Korean Pavilion and the Botanic Gardens. He bends to start around the beginning of this ellipse, right at the Fountain of Nezahualcoyotl, King of Texcoco XV century.