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.....

An architectural landmark in the south of Mexico City, El Cantoral, formally the Roberto Cantoral Cultural Center, is a striking modern concert hall in the Xoco neighbourhood. Designed by the acclaimed architect Gerardo Broissin and inaugurated in 2012 as a posthumous tribute to the celebrated Mexican singer-songwriter Roberto Cantoral, the building has won international architectural awards for its bold, sculptural form, which appears to float amid its surroundings. The main hall is renowned f.....

A boutique live-entertainment space in the south of Mexico City, Foro Red Access is an intimate venue built around the idea of pairing music and performance with food and drink in a close, club-like setting. Located in the Coyoacan area, the room is designed for small, curated audiences, offering a more personal alternative to the city's larger concert halls and a setting in which every seat feels close to the stage. The venue is compact, accommodating only a few hundred guests, often arranged .....

Opened to the public in September 2025, the Museo Casa Kahlo, long known as the Casa Roja or red house, offers a quieter and more intimate counterpart to the famous Casa Azul a few steps away in the Coyoacan district of Mexico City. The house, a colonial building distinguished by its deep crimson walls, was bought in the 1930s by the photographer Guillermo Kahlo and his wife Matilde Calderon, the parents of the artist Frida Kahlo, and for much of the twentieth century it was the home of Frida's .....

In the Coyoacan district of Mexico City stands the fortified house where the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky spent the last years of his life in exile and where he was assassinated in 1940, now preserved as a museum to his memory. Driven from the Soviet Union by his rival Joseph Stalin, Trotsky found refuge in Mexico in 1937, welcomed by the painter Diego Rivera and at first living at the nearby Casa Azul of Frida Kahlo before moving to this house. As the threat to his life grew, the house wa.....

The cobalt-blue walls of the Casa Azul, the house in the Coyoacan district of Mexico City where the artist Frida Kahlo was born, lived and died, give the Museo Frida Kahlo its popular name and make it one of the most visited and beloved museums in the country. Kahlo spent much of her life in this house, sharing it for many years with her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera, and it was here that she painted many of her works, recovered from the illnesses and the catastrophic accident that marked h.....