Native Trails MyTrails 2026 106 Ciudad de México 10 Scribes of Plaza Santo Domingo Duration: 00:30 h · Level: Easy Only few blocks from the Zócalo, you explore the fascinating “Plaza Santo Domingo,” the spiritual center of the town in colonial times. In the middle of the square, you find a fountain that is crowned by a statue commemorating Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, a heroine in the Mexican war of independence. A lovely feature of the square is the “Portal de los Evangelistas” – for many decades, scribes and authors have offered their services under these arcades to help illiterate people completing forms and wording letters, often even love letters. The clacking of typewriters is less prominent here today, but the writers’ business is still flourishing. 11 Visit of the Museum Franz Mayer Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy The collection of the “Museo Franz Mayer,” gathered by German immigrant Franz Mayer in the course of several decades, comprises a wide range of different works, whose selection was essentially guided by artisanal and decorative criteria. In the museum you will find, for instance, exquisite silverworks and ceramics (among them a dish from Puebla painted in finest detail) as well as furniture and textiles from several centuries of Mexican history. The collection of paintings with European and Mexican works allows you comparisons of the development of art across the Atlantic. Bibliophilic visitors should not miss the library where many rare prints can be studied. 13 Visit of the National Museum of Graphic Art Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Easy The “Museo Nacional de la Estampa” for engravings and prints contains a collection of some 12,000 works made by both Mexican and international artists. Graphic art has a long tradition in Mexico, and this is the reason that you can marvel not only at works by, e.g., José Guadalupe Posada or David Alfaro Siqueiros, but also at their precursors from prehispanic times: Seals and stamps of clay were used by the Indians to decorate textiles, ceramics and other products. Alternating exhibitions bring these treasures to light. 14 Visit of the Museo Nacional de la Revolución Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy The museum is accommodated in the basement of the spectacular Monumento a la Revolución Mexicana (MRM) from the 1930s. In its three halls, the Mexican revolution is comprehensively treated as a historic process from the fight against the French invaders and Emperor Maximilian they had installed in the country to the revolution and civil war in the early 20th century. During your visit of the MRM, you also climb up to the dome with its spectacular ambulatories where you can admire “Art Déco” works and enjoy a breathtaking view of Mexico City. 15 Visit of the magnificent “Museo Nacional de Arte” Duration: 03:00 h · Level: Easy The magnificent “Museo Nacional de Arte” gives you a comprehensive overview of more than 500 years of Mexican art history. Divided into three epochs (colonial time, period from the declaration of independence to the revolution, and first half of the 20th century), the exhibited works illustrate the formative process from the adoption of European techniques and styles through the representation of mainly Mexican subjects with primarily Romantic means to the development of specific Mexican styles of expression such as murals. 16 Visit of the Colegio de San Ildefonso Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Easy You visit the museum Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in the historic center of Mexico City. The Baroque building from the early 18th century was one of the most important educational institutions in the Mexican capital for many years. Since the early 1990s, it accommodates a museum with permanent and temporary exhibitions that has become increasingly popular. On your tour, you see wall paintings by various artists, e.g., Clemente Orozco and Fernando Leal as well as one of the first murals by Diego Rivera and many other exhibits of modern and contemporary art.
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