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).