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North of the city center, tourist attractions are comparatively few and far between endless blocks of grey apartment buildings and traffic. However sites such as the poignant Plaza de Las Tres Culturas- home to brutal massacres in both the 16th and 20th centuries – Aztec ruins of Tlatelolco and the huge pilgrimage site and shrines of La Basílica de Guadalupe are easy enough to get to by metro. The pyramids at Tenayuca and Santa Cecilia, small but well preserved, involve a bit more

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North of the city center, tourist attractions are comparatively few and far between endless blocks of grey apartment buildings and traffic. However sites such as the poignant Plaza de Las Tres Culturas- home to brutal massacres in both the 16th and 20th centuries – Aztec ruins of Tlatelolco and the huge pilgrimage site and shrines of La Basílica de Guadalupe are easy enough to get to by metro. The pyramids at Tenayuca and Santa Cecilia, small but well preserved, involve a bit more off-the-beaten-track adventures on local buses but are close enough to see in the same day and well worth the trouble for fans of Aztec history.

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Tlatelolco Ruins

The city of Tlatelolco was around years before the founding of its more famous neighbor, Tenochtitlán. The two cities shared one of the largest islands on Lake Texcoco, the site of modern Mexico ...
Ruin
North Of The Center, Mexico City, Mexico

Plaza de Las Tres Culturas

To wander around the Plaza de las Tres Culturas is to feel the weight of the three cultures that have shaped modern Mexico. The ruins of the ancient city of Tlatelolco surround a colonial church, ...
City Plaza
North Of The Center, Mexico City, Mexico

Piramide de Tenayuca

The Pirámide of Tenayuca was constructed around 1224 by the barbarian Chichimeca tribe. The Chichimecas had wandered down from northern Mexico, wiped out the Toltecs in the city of Tula, and ...
Ruin
North Of The Center, Mexico City, Mexico
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