Alameda Central
Plaza Juárez, Atlampa, Cuauhtémoc, 06450, Mexico
Alameda Central is the oldest public park in the Americas — established in 1592 on the site where the Spanish Inquisition burned heretics (a fact the tourist brochures tend to understate), and now a shaded rectangle of fountains, paths, and the afternoon crowd of office workers, street vendors, and families that fills every Mexican public space.
Chapultepec Park (Bosque de Chapultepec)
s/n Av. Reforma, Bosque de Chapultepec I Sección, Ciudad de México, 11860, México
Chapultepec is the Central Park of Mexico City — except it's twice the size, contains seven museums, a castle, a zoo, a lake, and 800-year-old ahuehuete trees that were already ancient when the Aztecs used this hillside as a retreat for their emperors.
Paseo de la Reforma
Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City
Paseo de la Reforma is Mexico City's grand boulevard — a 15-kilometre avenue modelled on the Champs-Élysées that runs from Chapultepec Park through the financial district to the Zócalo area, passing monuments, skyscrapers, and roundabouts anchored by some of the most important public sculptures in Mexico.
Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución)
Mexico
The Zócalo is the beating heart of Mexico City and one of the largest public squares in the world — a vast expanse of grey stone flanked by the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Palacio Nacional, and the remains of the Aztec Templo Mayor, layering three civilisations in a single view.
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