Plaza Santos Degollado

Places of Interest Nearby

Palacio de Bellas Artes

Theater building

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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. Palacio de Bellas Artes is situated 360 metres northeast of Plaza Santos Degollado.

Chinatown

Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Barrio Chino is a barrio located in the downtown area of Mexico City, near the Alameda Central and Palacio de Bellas Artes. Barrio Chino exists primarily on two blocks along Dolores Street and one block east and west of the street.

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. It has exhibits about genocide, including the holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian War, the Guatemalan genocide, the Darfur conflict and the Cambodian genocide. Memory and Tolerance Museum is situated 170 metres northwest of Plaza Santos Degollado.

Places in the Area

Centro

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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.

Colonia Juárez

Neighborhood

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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.

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.

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