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You have great taste in art!

I would go to the Rufino Tamayo museum in Chapultepec. It is a building designed by De leon, and capture along with the mexican artist the feeling of mexico’s identity, abstact wanting to join the modern world, and yet grounded in Mexican tradtion (not the quais tradition of Rivera, but the deep one represented by Tamayos amazing colors and subtle refernce to his Oaxacan past) I would also walk around the Zocalo and visit the Prepa 1, which was restored some years ago and includes less well known but interesting murals of Orozco and Rivera. The national Palace has another famous Rivera mural. If you stand facing the Cathedral you will see 2000 years of violently disrupted history with the aztec ruins, the cathedral and the national palace. Close also is the first hospital on the new continet that on the outside has a 1960’s facade and on the inside a courtyard in the old spanssh colonial style. After the Zocalo head to Sanborns (the one downtown) and see the watermelons painted by tamayo and also enjoy a straberry shake. Great stuff. Stay at the Camino Real near chapultepec (costly but it has murals and art and a gian calder sculpture. It is designed by Lejorreta and is a hallmark of mexican architecture (and serves about 12 fresh squezzed tropical juices in the morning) For food check out a place Called “El Charco de la Rana” the frogs pond. Eat tacos, or head to the San Angel Inn in the San Angel colony (where rivera used to live) and enjoy Mexican Gourmet Cuisine (try huitlacothle the mushroom that grows on Corn)Go to a bullfight in the largest Plaza in the world, wwlak through Polanco (the trendy neighberhood) and have a coffee at the argentine cafe “Cafe Snob” Go to Coyoac

Stay in the hotel that faces the Presidential Palace, overlooking the Z

Just came back from Ciudad de Mexico last Saturday and here’s my advice: Avoid the city, it’s never-ending traffic jams, the smog and dirt, and hop on a bus like for example Estrella Roja to Puebla (beautiful 2 hr. drive through the Sierra Madre) where the climate is much better, people are friendlier, it’s safer and cleaner (both the air and the floor). Go to places like Cholula (hire a guide to show you around the pyramid) or Atlixco (make sure to go to the market in downtown on Mondays and Thursdays)

/Tomas

Stay at the big old hotel on the Zocolo. try to get a room with a balcony at the top of the hotel, facing the Zocolo, Eat Cabrito.

(Went there for the summer holidays)
I would suggest the following sites:
must see:
-Museo de Anthropologia (the labeling of artifacts in English improved quite a lot recently) good preparation for
-Teotihuacan
nice to see:
-Museo de Templo Major
-Bellas Artes

For getting around in the city I would strongly suggest using the metro! Is one of the best in the world (ok, maybe St.Petersburg’s is more impressive ), very cheap and often faster than using a taxi cab.

If going by taxi, always go for the licensed ones (special number plates and licenses of the taxi union under the windscreen). Sometimes it is a good idea to let the driver know, that you’ve checked his number plate