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Mexico City Travel Guide

Greater Mexico City, sometimes considered the world's largest and most populated city, forms a rough oval of about 60 by 40 kilometers, on the dry bed of lake Texcoco, surrounded on three sides by tall mountains and volcanoes such as the Ajusco, the Popocatepetl and the Ixtlacihuatl.

About Mexico City

Mexico City covers an area of 571 sq. miles (1479 square Km) and is estimated to have a population of 9 million people being the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial and cultural center in the country, and the most populous city.

Museo Frida Kahlo

m2.jpgThis was home to the enigmatic painter Frida Kahlo (often called “the paintbrush of angst”) where she occasionally lived with her husband Diego Rivera. Personal objects such as jewelry, unfinished canvases propped on easels, her typical tehuana ornate dresses, paper mache and pre-Hispanic objects, as well as her wheelchair, are on display in the studio where she painted. Works by Mexican painters such as Jose MarĂ­a Velasco, Claussel and Orozco among others, are exhibited alongside some of Frida’s own paintings. No photography is allowed. Admission prices: MXN20 adults; MXN10 students and teachers; free for seniors.

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