Xoco

Xoco is a neighborhood of Mexico City in Benito Juárez borough. Xoco was originally a village dating to before the Spanish conquest. Now it is an important commercial hot spot that lies just across the northern edge of Coyoacán.

Type: Quarter
Description: Mexico City colonia
Also known as: “Colonia Xoco” and “San Sebastián Xoco”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Frida Kahlo Museum and Leon Trotsky House Museum.

Frida Kahlo Museum

Museum

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The Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as The Blue House for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Leon Trotsky House Museum

Museum

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The Leon Trotsky House Museum, Trotsky Museum, or Trotsky House Museum, is a museum honoring Leon Trotsky and an organization that works to promote political asylum, located in the Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City.

Coyoacán metro station

Metro station

Photo: GAED, Public domain.

Coyoacán metro station is a station of the Mexico City Metro in the city's borough of Benito Juárez. It is an underground railway stop with two side platforms serving Line 3, between Zapata and Viveros/Derechos Humanos.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coyoacán and Churubusco.

Coyoacán

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

This relatively large area in the southwest of Mexico City has always been a counterculture hotbed. This is where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived, a few blocks away from Leon Trotsky, and the tranquil residential area, with parks, squares, and cobblestone streets, is now a favourite spot for the bohemia set.

Churubusco

Quarter

Photo: Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot, Public domain.

Churubusco is a neighbourhood of Mexico City. It is a part of the borough of Coyoacán. It is centred on the former Franciscan monastery at. The name "Churubusco" is the interpretation the Spanish invaders gave to the original Nahuatl name Huitzilopochco – meaning "place of Huitzilopochtli".