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Centro

The old city center or Centro Histórico of , 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.
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  • Type: old town
  • Description: original colonial layout of Mexico’s capital city
  • Also known as: “Historic center of Mexico City” and “Historic downtown of Mexico City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Church
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The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, also commonly called the , is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico.

Theater building
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The is a prominent cultural center in . It hosts performing arts events, literature events and plastic arts galleries and exhibitions.

Ruins
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The was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenōchtitlan, which is now . Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tepito and Tlatelolco.

Neighborhood
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is a barrio located in Colonia Morelos in , a borough of bordered by Avenida del Trabajo, Paseo de la Reforma, Eje 1 and Eje 2.

Quarter
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was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the . 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.

Neighborhood
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is a traditional neighborhood located in the Cuauhtémoc municipality of now part of colonia Guerrero close to and La Lagunilla.

Centro

Latitude
19.43278° or 19° 25′ 58″ north
Longitude
-99.13322° or 99° 7′ 60″ west
Open location code
76F2CVM8+4P
Wiki­data ID
Q2146288
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Centro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المركز التاريخي لمدينة مكسيكو سيتي”
  • Armenian: “Մեխիկո քաղաքի պատմական կենտրոն”
  • Basque: “Mexiko Hiriko Hirigune Historikoa”
  • Bengali: “মেক্সিকো সিটির ঐতিহাসিক কেন্দ্র”
  • Bulgarian: “Исторически център на Мексико Сити”
  • Catalan: “Centre Històric de la Ciutat de Mèxic”
  • Chinese: “墨西哥城历史中心”
  • Chinese: “墨西哥城歷史中心”
  • Croatian: “Povijesno središte grada Meksika”
  • Czech: “historické centrum Ciudad de México”
  • Dutch: “Historisch centrum van Mexico Stad”
  • Dutch: “Historisch Centrum van Mexico-Stad”
  • French: “centre historique de Mexico”
  • French: “Centre historique de Mexico”
  • Galician: “Centro histórico da Cidade de México”
  • German: “Centro”
  • German: “Mexiko-Stadt/Centro”
  • Hebrew: “המרכז ההיסטורי של מקסיקו סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “המרכז ההיסטורי”
  • Hebrew: “מקסיקו סיטי/מרכז העיר”
  • Irish: “lár stairiúil Chathair Mheicsiceo”
  • Italian: “centro storico di Città del Messico”
  • Italian: “Centro storico di Città del Messico”
  • Japanese: “ヒストリックセンター”
  • Japanese: “メキシコシティ歴史地区”
  • Ladino: “Sentro istoriko de la Sivdad de Meksiko”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mexico bys historiske sentrum”
  • Norwegian: “Mexico bys historiske sentrum”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੈਕਸੀਕੋ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਦਾ ਇਤਿਹਾਸਕ ਕੇਂਦਰ”
  • Persian: “مرکز تاریخی مکزیکو سیتی”
  • Portuguese: “Centro Histórico da Cidade do México”
  • Russian: “Исторический центр Мехико”
  • Russian: “Мехико/Центр”
  • Russian: “Центр”
  • Scots: “Historic centre o Mexico Ceety”
  • Slovenian: “Zgodovinski center Ciudad de Mexico”
  • Spanish: “Centro de Ciudad de México”
  • Spanish: “Centro Histórico Ciudad de México”
  • Spanish: “Centro histórico de Ciudad de México”
  • Spanish: “Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México”
  • Spanish: “Centro histórico de la Ciudad de México”
  • Spanish: “Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México”
  • Spanish: “Centro”
  • Swedish: “Mexico Citys historiska centrum”
  • Swedish: “Mexiko Citys historiska centrum”
  • Turkish: “Meksiko’nun tarihî merkezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Історичний центр Мехіко”
  • Vietnamese: “Trung tâm Lịch sử của Thành phố Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Trung tâm Lịch sử của Thành phố México”

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