The most important things to know about El Zocalo in Mexico City
Tags: Mexico City, Tenochitlan, Zocalo
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.
On the east side of El Zocalo you can find the National palace(El Palacio Nacional). Here resides today the City Hall of Mexico City, which I visited and noticed the paintings of Diego Rivera.
On the western side there are Monte de Piedad and the famous Portal de Mercaderes.
On the north side you can find The Metropolitan Cathedral (named also The Saint Nicholas Cathedral, built during three centuries) and the Sagrario.
Zocalo is the common destinations for any political and tradeunions demonstrations. It is also a place for concerts(Cafe Tacuba, Alejandro Sainz and Shakira held concerts here. Shakira concert attracted 210000 people!).
My tipps: avoid Zocalo when is crowded, avoid to change money in the neighborhood, you can get the worsest rate!(the best is in the airport).
Zocalo must stay at the top of your to do list while in Mexico City. I tried to present it to you precisely and briefly, and I hope you can learn from my experiences in Zocalo. Enjoy your trip!
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June 24th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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