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Mexico City
Mexico City is a heaven for the travelers. Mexico City holds pleasant surprises for the visitors with diversified attractions such as desert landscapes, snow-capped volcanoes, ancient ruins, teeming industrialised cities, time-warped colonial towns, glitzy resorts, lonely beaches and a world-beating collection of flora and fauna. The night life of the city is dazzling, with endless options for visitors from music scene boasts jazz clubs, loud all-night discos to orchestras, romantic trios, chamber music and more.
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The Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitution)
A visit to the Mexico City is incomplete without a look at the Zocala, the heart of the city with shops, cantinas, street vendors, and some surviving historic structures. Zocalo is a giant concrete area that houses the flag of Mexico. It is also one of the largest squares in the world this place provides a great feel of the areas history with the artistic events and celebrations held there. Every day there is a ceremony in the Plaza to raise or lower the Mexican Flag.
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Chapultepec Park
Chapultepec is a large hill on the outskirts of central Mexico City and has been a special place for Mexicans. Chapultepec Park, consisting of the hill and surrounding land of 1,600 acres has many attractions. The park covers an old forest, several small lakes. a beautiful zoo known as Chapultepec Zoo with more than 200 different species, an amusement park with collection of rides and other entertainments and also includes many Museums.
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Palacio Nacional
Palacio Nacional the national palace is the home of the Mexican Government. The main attraction of the Palacio Nacional is the amazing display of murals by Diego Rivera. They were painted between 1929 and 1945. Rivera and his assistants took 16 years to paint the walls of the palace. The paintings depicts every major event and person of Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution and the most famous being the "Epic of the Mexican People in their Struggle for Freedom and Independence", which condenses two thousand years of history onto the space of a wall.
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Museo Nacional de Antropologia
Museo Nacional de Antropologia is one of the world’s finest museums. This museum situated in the heart of Chapultepecpark offers an opportunity to experience one of the world truly astounding museums. The museum building itself is a masterpiece of architectural design. The museum consists of 26 halls which provides an overview of outstanding examples of pottery, textiles, agricultural implements, religions icons, traditional costumes and more; gathered from all corners of Mexico.
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Xochimilco
Xochimilco is famous for its floating gardens and is a popular weekend destination among tourists who visit in boats. Xochimilco is an agricultural area in the south of Mexico City where many of the city's flowers are grown. The visitors cane take a ride in a flat-bottomed boat through the lovely floating gardens of Xochimilco and also view the once-enormous agrarian canal system that fed the Aztec capital.
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Metropolitan Cathedral
The "Cathedral Metropolitan", is located beside the Zocalo. It was the first cathedral in La Nuevo España and is the oldest one in the Americas. It has a Baroque-style facade and 64-meter high Neoclassical-style towers which hold 18 bells. The bells are unusual in their method oh hanging and very greatly in size. An endless amount of beautiful paintings, statues, and altarpieces decorate the interior of the Cathedral.
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