The main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, known as Ciudad Universitaria or University City, is a vast and architecturally remarkable complex in the south of Mexico City that was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007 for its outstanding example of mid-twentieth-century modernism. Built largely between 1949 and 1952 on a lava field, the campus was the work of more than sixty architects, engineers and artists who together created a unified ensemble blending modern.....

Built from dark volcanic stone in the form of a brooding pyramid-temple, the Anahuacalli Museum in the south of Mexico City was conceived by the muralist Diego Rivera to house his vast personal collection of pre-Hispanic art and to stand as a monument to the indigenous heritage of Mexico. Rivera spent much of his fortune and the latter part of his life gathering some sixty thousand ancient objects, and he designed the building himself, drawing on Aztec, Maya and Teotihuacan architecture to creat.....

Pele lifted the World Cup here in 1970; Maradona followed in 1986, four days after scoring both the Hand of God and the Goal of the Century on the same afternoon in this bowl. The stadium the world knows as the Estadio Azteca - renamed Estadio Banorte in March 2025 under a naming-rights deal with the Mexican bank - stands on Calzada de Tlalpan in the Santa Ursula district of southern Mexico City, 2,200 metres above sea level. Architects Pedro Ramirez Vazquez and Rafael Mijares Alcerreca designe.....