Native Trails MyTrails 2025 103 Ciudad de México 52 Visit of the Bazar de Sábado Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Easy The hustle and bustle of the Saturday market – the bazar de Sábado – is well-known throughout the city and popular with tourists and locals alike. Every Saturday the market attracts thousands of visitors. An old hacienda accommodates the artists’ market with many stands where jewelry, pictures, clothes, ceramics, and glass are offered – as are dolls, books, old photos, lamps, candles, and much more. Do not neglect to bargain! 53 Visit of the University City and the Olympic Stadium Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Easy There are more than 80 university buildings on the huge campus of Mexico City. Best known among them is the 12-storey library, whose façade is adorned with pictorial mosaics of stones, tiles and glass on all four sides. The first building erected on the site was the Olympic Stadium of 1952. Its façade shows a three-dimensional frieze by Diego Rivera. 54 Visit of the Anahuacalli Museum Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Easy Originally, when starting its construction in 1942, painter Diego Rivera had intended today’s Museo Anahuacalli to be a building to live in and to accommodate his immense collection of pre-Hispanic objects. He was inspired by the industrial development in the United States and at the same time wanted the building to be integrated into the surrounding landscape, so he modeled it after a Mexican pyramid with a temple on top and used the lava that constituted the terrain as building material. The museum today has 23 exhibition rooms, where about 2,000 of the collection of more than 45,000 objects are permanently on display; they include figures by the Olmecs, Toltecs and Zapotecs as well as sketches of some of Rivera’s later murals. 55 History of Football in the Estadio Azteca Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy The football stadium Estadio Azteca is located in the picturesque borough of Coyoacán in Mexico City. At a capacity of 105,000 roofed seats, it is one of the biggest stadiums worldwide. It is the only stadium to have hosted two opening and two final games of the FIFA world championship (1970 and 1986). In the past, the stadium was also used to stage large concerts (e.g. by Michael Jackson). Pope John Paul II made a speech to thousands of faithful Mexicans in the Estadio Azteca in 1999, during one of his tours of America. At present, the stadium is mostly used by the Club América, one of Mexico’s professional soccer clubs. 56 Visit of the archaeological site of Cuicuilco Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Easy Cuicuilco, which was settled already about 3,000 years ago, is an important reference point in the preurban phase of Mesoamerican civilizations. It is the place, for instance, where the first known statue of the fire god, who was venerated for many centuries, was discovered – as well as indications of the first steps to the Mesoamerican calendar systems. The importance of the place can be grasped when you look at the pieces exhibited in the local museum, but particularly when you see the circular pyramid, an enormous platform of some 150 m (165 yds.) diameter. Climbing it, you get an overview of the entire archaeological zone and of parts of the megalopolis of Mexico City. 57 Visit of the floating gardens of Xochimilco Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy Xochimilco is a district in the south of Mexico City and known for its floating gardens that the Aztecs created on Lake Texcoco to supply victuals to its capital. The channels of the “Huertos Flotantes” have a total length of more than 150 km (90 miles). The gardens were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 and are popular with both the inhabitants of Mexico City and tourists. On a small boat tour you get to know the gardens.
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