Covering a total of 660 hectares, this park receives an average of 2 million visitors on a weekly basis. It is the most important recreation and leisure space in the City.

Previously, this area was used by the Aztecs for pilgrimages, thus becoming a holy site for many of the prehispanic people in Mexico, but later fell prey to Hernán Cortez.

Then came the construction of the castle, which served as the official residence of the Emperor Maximilian of Hapsburg, and was later converted into the Heroíco Colegio Militar.

Among others, 13 young cadets were killed here at the hands of U.S. troops whilst defending Mexico's sovereignty over 150 years ago. These 'Niños Héroes,' child heroes, are celebrated on a yearly basis.

Additionally, the castle served as home to several Mexican presidents, and now houses the National History Museum.

The surrounding forest is host to several museums: Natural History, Anthropology, Rufino Tamayo, the Technological Museum of the Federal Electricity Commission, along with the Modern Art and Natural History museums.

There is also a zoo, where hundreds of species live and breed, and which is considered to be the largest in Latin America.

There is also a large fun fair, the Auditorio Nacional (National Auditorium) - with seating for up to 18,000 spectators and, since 1934, the Presidential Residence, known as Los Pinos has its home here.

A picturesque residential zone with a multitude of beautiful Colonial architecture. Here you will find the Diego Rivera Museum, the former Convento del Carmen and the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil (Art Museum of Carillo Gil).

The Saturday Bazaar and the Sunday art market are in the zone's Plaza San Jacinto.

Several centuries passed by before this impressive architectural reminder of Mexico's past, which should never have been destroyed, was finally recovered.

The Templo Mayor, is the holy site where the preHispanic aztec group worshipped

the two deities of the mexica tribe: Huitzilipochtli and Tláloc. Pyramid upon pyramid, and on the top, twin temples, from where the two deities kept watch over their subjects.

The history and the customs of our ancestors is on show here, narrated by themselves in the form of murals, alters, magnificent sculptures and diverse representations, as well as the rites and offerings that were carried in homage to the gods.

And, to further illustrate past times, there are also the poetic offerings of the past in the local náhuatl language. Myths, legends and realities that amaze modern man, telling us of a glorious past that is in reality an uncalculable heritage of great responsability for their descendants.

In the excavations carried out on the Templo Mayor, there are remains of drainage channels, passageways, plazas, premises belonging to - or for the use of - priests, sacrificial alters, and the Tzompantli, and a long etcétera.

Impressive sculptures such as the Diosa Coyolxhuaqui, a monolithic, carved round stone, where the Godess is portrayed decapitated and dismembered at the foot of the Templo Mayor.

A Chac-Mool, a sculpture which served as inspiration for the British sculptor Henry Moore, along with other figures, serpants and parrots keep visitors entertained, intrigued and most importantly, imformed.

In the downtown area of Mexico City, close to the Paseo de la Reforma, is the Plaza de Tlatelolco, sometimes referred to as Xaltelolco - meaning 'Mountain of Sand - became part of the mexica empire when the tlatelolcas, who had founded their city on an island, very close to Tenochtitlán, were defeated by Axayacatl. A little later, the place became the second most important city of the mexica, playing host to the irch merchants of the aztec and tlaltelolca tribes.

It is now officially known as the Plaza de las tres Culturas - Plaza of the Three Cultures - because at the site there are representations of the three most important eras of mexico's history: the pre-Hispanic, the Colonial and the modern-day Mexico.

The pre-Hispanic Ceremonial Centre and the Pyramid, tell us of the past of Mexico, the church of Santiago Tlatelolco, speaks for the Colonial era and the surrounding buildings offer an insught into present-day Mexico.