Alameda Central
Alameda Central is a public urban park in downtown Mexico City. Established in 1592, Alameda Central is the oldest public park in the Americas. Located in Cuauhtémoc borough between Juárez Avenue and Hidalgo Avenue, the park is adjacent to the Palacio de Bellas Artes and can be accessed by Metro Bellas Artes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gobierno CDMX, CC0.
- Type: Park
- Description: public park in Mexico City
- Also known as: “Alameda Central Park” and “Alameda Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palacio de Bellas Artes and Memory and Tolerance Museum.
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palacio de Bellas Artes is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City. It hosts performing arts events, literature events and plastic arts galleries and exhibitions.
Memory and Tolerance Museum
Museum
Photo: Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Memory and Tolerance Museum is a museum in Mexico City, Mexico, established in 2010.
Museo Nacional de la Estampa
Museum
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The Museo de la Estampa is a museum in Mexico City, dedicated to the history, preservation and promotion of Mexican graphic arts. The word “estampa” means works in the various printmaking techniques which have the quality of being reproducible and include seals, woodcuts, lithography and others.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa María la Redonda and Centro.
Santa María la Redonda
Neighborhood
Photo: Dge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa María la Redonda is a traditional neighborhood located in the Cuauhtémoc municipality of Mexico City now part of colonia Guerrero close to Tepito and La Lagunilla.
Centro
Photo: Uwebart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The old city center or Centro Histórico of Mexico City, around the Plaza de la Constitución, is an area clearly different from the rest of the city. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.
Colonia Juárez
Neighborhood
Photo: Thelmadatter, Public domain.
Colonia Juárez is one of the better-known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. The neighborhood is shaped like a long triangle with the boundaries: Paseo de la Reforma on the north, Avenida Chapultepec on the south, and Eje 1 Poniente on the east.
Alameda Central
- Categories: urban park and recreation area
- Location: Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.43575° or 19° 26′ 9″ northLongitude
-99.144° or 99° 8′ 38″ westElevation
2,242 metres (7,356 feet)Inception
1592Open location code
76F2CVP4+7COpenStreetMap ID
way 4758957OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
11560842Wikidata ID
Q3355305
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Turkish—“Alameda Central” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ալամեդա սենտրալ”
- Chinese: “阿拉米达中央公园”
- Chinese: “阿拉米達中央公園”
- Chinese: “墨西哥城阿拉梅达中央公园”
- Chinese: “墨西哥城阿拉梅達中央公園”
- Czech: “Alameda Central”
- Dutch: “Alameda Central”
- Esperanto: “Alameda Central”
- Finnish: “Alameda Central”
- French: “Alameda Central”
- German: “Alameda Central”
- Hungarian: “Alameda Central”
- Italian: “Alameda Central”
- Japanese: “アラメダ・セントラル”
- Macedonian: “Мекскико Сити Аламеда Сентрал”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alameda Central”
- Norwegian: “Alameda Central”
- Portuguese: “Alameda Central”
- Spanish: “Alameda Central”
- Spanish: “La Alameda”
- Turkish: “Alameda Central”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Barrio Chino and Colonia Centro.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hemiciclo a Juárez and San Juan de Dios church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alameda Central”. Photo: Gobierno CDMX, CC0.