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If you want to understand El Zocalo like an insider, then you should know some facts about it. Namely the followings, listed bellow.

First of all, travelling for the first time at Mexico City, probably by air to he Benito Juarez airport, you can see shortly from the plane the mexican flag. There is Zocalo, or Plaza de la Constitucion, also known before as Plaza de Armas.

The name Zocalo stays for the english plynth. Here should be builded a statue in the XIXth century, but only the plynth rose.

Zocalo is huge, it is one of the world’s biggest squares. It has been builded by the spaniards in the XVIth century, on the ruins of the demolished Templo Mayor, the heart of the aztec capital of Tenochitlan. There are plenty of archaeological sites in the neighborhood, and some of them unveil even earlier civilisations than aztecas.