14 MARCH 2019
MEXICO city tour with Xochimilco and Anthropology Museum and the Metropolitan Cathedral, which is the largest church in all of Latin America, housing many art treasures of the colonial period. This landmark took over 250 years to build, evident in its various architectural styles, also visited the National Palace, one of the oldest government seats in the world, which still houses the President’s Office and the Ministry of Finance. Become a part of history when you walk through this 1693 palace while observing the Diego Rivera murals that blazon the inner hallways of the building.
Drove to the Plaza de las Cibeles, Poliforum Cultural Siqueiros, Bull Ring and the University City, before continuing to Xochimilco’s floating gardens, for a boat ride on a flower decorated “trajineras”. Mexico ́s 30 centuries of human evolution we can see in the Anthropological Museum, which is the finest archaeological museum in the world. Here, we had the chance to see thousands of artifacts, including burial tombs, giant Olmec stone heads, the famous Aztec Calendar Stone and a reconstructed Mayan temple.
