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  2. Zócalo - Wikipedia

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    The modern Zócalo in Mexico City is 57,600 m 2 (240 m × 240 m). [5] It is bordered by the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral to the north, the National Palace to the east, the Federal District buildings to the south and the Old Portal de Mercaderes to the west, the Nacional Monte de Piedad building at the northwest corner, with the Templo Mayor site to the northeast, just outside view.

  3. Historic center of Mexico City - Wikipedia

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    The Zocalo is the largest plaza in Latin America. [3] It can hold up to nearly 100,000 people. [4] This section of the capital lies in the municipal borough of Cuauhtémoc, has just over nine km 2 and occupies 668 blocks. It contains 9,000 buildings, 1,550 of which have been declared of historical importance.

  4. Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven (Spanish: Catedral Metropolitana de la Asunción de la Bienaventurada Virgen María a los cielos), also commonly called the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico. [2]

  5. National Palace (Mexico) - Wikipedia

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    The English-made clock on the parapet was moved to the tower of the Church of Santo Domingo. The façade was cemented over and etched to look like stone block. Cloth awnings were placed on the windows of the upper floors. On pedestals near the main door, statues of female forms were placed.

  6. Palacio de Bellas Artes - Wikipedia

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    The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City.This hosts performing arts events, literature events and plastic arts galleries and exhibitions (including important permanent Mexican murals).

  7. Old Portal de Mercaderes (Mexico City) - Wikipedia

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    View of west side of Zocalo. Old Portal de Mercaderes in the historic center of Mexico City was and is the west side of the main plaza (otherwise known as the "Zócalo"). This side of the plaza has been occupied by commercial structures since the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521.

  8. Aztec sun stone - Wikipedia

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    The Aztec sun stone (Spanish: Piedra del Sol) is a late post-classic Mexica sculpture housed in the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, and is perhaps the most famous work of Mexica sculpture. [1]

  9. Museum of Mexico City - Wikipedia

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    The Museum of Mexico City (Spanish: Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico) is located at Pino Suarez 30, a few blocks south of the Zocalo, on what was the Iztapalapa Causeway, near where Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II met for the first time. [1]