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| Its traditional boundaries are Perú Street, the Circunvalación road, the Eje Central boulevard and Fray Servando Teresa de Mier Street. This rectangle, or “first block” of the city corresponds to the original construction that the Spanish conquistadors built over Tenochtitlán, the lake city of the Aztecs. The most ancient—yet most vibrant and active—part of the city, it’s filled with businesses, offices, public services, recreational and spiritual spaces, restaurants, hotels, bars and cantinas, plazas and parks, plus churches and temples, in grand, historic and colorful buildings. Starting from the central plaza known as the Zócalo, visitors can travel through time according to where they walk. Try heading to the city’s second most important plaza, Santo Domingo, where you’ll see the building that was the headquarters of the Inquisition, and continue north to see the ruins of Tlatelolco (a city once allied to Tenochtitlán). Or you could take different streets that lead to the Alameda, and wander from the 14th to the 21st centuries, block by block. |
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