Plaza de Santa Veracruz

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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 240 metres southeast of Plaza de Santa Veracruz.

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.

Alameda Central

Park

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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.

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.

Tlatelolco

Quarter

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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 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.

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