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Five Things About My City / Mexico City

zocalo independence day

Linking up with Eat Pray Run DC for this week’s Friday Five.

Here are 5 Things I love about Mexico City:

1. Paseo de la Reforma closes to vehicle traffic on Sunday mornings. The boulevard is instead given over to bicyclists, skaters, runners, and walkers. I haven’t done this for a while, but I think on Sunday I’ll go for a run!

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2. The Zocalo is decorated with beautiful lights for holidays.

Zocalo Independence Day Lights
Zocalo for Independence Day

 

Zocalo Christmas Lights
Zocalo Christmas Lights

 

3. Magnificent churches, everywhere.

 Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Coyoacan Cathedral
Coyoacan Cathedral
Metropolitan Cathedral
Metropolitan Cathedral

 

4. Mexico does not mess around with its cultural heritage. The treasures in the Anthropology Museum are mind-blowing.

Aztec Sun Stone
Aztec Sun Stone

 

5. Paseo de la Reforma also closes for protests. These marches make me cynical and hopeful at the same time. Cynical because the government allows these protests so citizen can feel like they’re doing something, when in reality nothing changes; and hopeful because the protesters keep at it.

Protest on Reforma
Protest on Reforma for the 43 missing students

 What do you love about where you live?

18 thoughts on “Five Things About My City / Mexico City

  1. Very cool list. There is a lot of beautiful things too see, such as the churches and from the antropological side of things like you mentioned. That is really could how they close it down for runners, cyclists and all.

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