Plaza de las Tres Culturas
The Plaza de las Tres Culturas is the main square within the Tlatelolco neighborhood of Mexico City. The name "Three Cultures" is in recognition of the three periods of Mexican history reflected by buildings in the square: pre-Columbian, Spanish colonial, and the independent nation.Photo: JEDIKNIGHT1970, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Area
- Description: square in Mexico City
- Also known as: “Square of the Three Cultures”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tlatelolco and Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco.
Tlatelolco
Museum
Photo: TlatelolcoTV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tlatelolco is an archaeological excavation site in Mexico City, Mexico, where remains of the pre-Columbian city-state of the same name have been found.
Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco
Museum
Photo: Coleccion.blaisten, Public domain.
Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco is a museum.
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
Church
Photo: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, also commonly called the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tlatelolco and Colonia Santa María Insurgentes.
Tlatelolco
Quarter
Photo: Diego Rivera, Public domain.
Tlatelolco was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the Valley of Mexico. Its inhabitants, known as the Tlatelolca, were part of the Mexica, a Nahuatl-speaking people who arrived in what is now central Mexico in the 13th century.
Colonia Santa María Insurgentes
Neighborhood
Colonia Santa María Insurgentes is a colonia in the Cuauhtémoc borough north east of the Mexico City's historic center. The colonia's borders are formed by the following roads: Calzada de San Simon to the south, Jacarandas to the north, Avenida de los Insurgentes Norte to the east and Jacarandas to the west.
Centro
Photo: Uwebart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The old city center or Centro Histórico of Mexico City, centered on the Plaza de la Constitución, has been the heart of the nation since Aztec times. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.
Plaza de las Tres Culturas
- Categories: square and triad
- Location: Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Plaza de las Tres Culturas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساحة الحضارات الثلاثة”
- Armenian: “Երեք մշակույթների հրապարակ”
- Basque: “Hiru Kulturen plaza”
- Catalan: “plaça de les Tres Cultures”
- Catalan: “Plaça de les Tres Cultures”
- Chinese: “三种文化广场”
- Chinese: “三種文化廣場”
- Chinese: “特拉特洛尔科广场”
- Czech: “Náměstí Tří kultur”
- Dutch: “Plaza de las Tres Culturas”
- Dutch: “Plein van de Drie Culturen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان الحضارات التلاته”
- Esperanto: “Placo de la Tri Kulturoj”
- French: “place des Trois Cultures”
- French: “Place des Trois Cultures”
- German: “Plaza de las Tres Culturas”
- German: “Plaza de Tlatelolco”
- Italian: “piazza delle tre culture”
- Italian: “Piazza delle tre culture”
- Japanese: “三文化広場”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “De tre kulturers plass”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Plaza de la Tres Culturas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Plaza de las Tres Culturas”
- Norwegian: “Plaza de las Tres Culturas”
- Portuguese: “Plaza de las Tres Culturas”
- Portuguese: “Praça das Três Culturas”
- Russian: “Площадь Трёх культур”
- Russian: “Площадь Трёх Культур”
- Spanish: “FICUNAM”
- Spanish: “Plaza de las Tres Culturas”
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