Have you ever been to Mexico City (Ciudad de México)?
By marguicha
@marguicha (223850)
Chile
August 8, 2010 7:19pm CST
Ciudad de Mexico is the capital of Mexico. It is the city with more inhabitants in the world although it s density is not as big as other mayor cities.
What makes it awesome is that you can see just about anything you like. You can see incredible precolumbian ruins, 18th century palaces, churches from the times of the viceroys and skyscrapers. I have never been to a museum so breathtaking as the Archaeological Museum there. For people who like music (folk, clasic, pop) there it is. If you like art, they have had world renowned painters.
I specially love the pride that mexicans have of their culture. It´s reasonable: when the western culture was in diapers, the mayas and other natives were studying the sky and getting results.
Have you been there? What have you liked best? I could not choose: it´s all too wonderful. Share your own experience.
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@jak2010 (1550)
• Papua New Guinea
9 Aug 10
That is interesting to note that mexico city is the biggest city in the world with highest number of its inhabitants and yet it population density is not as big as other major cities in the world. That is very interesting for me. How do yu compare that to say city like New Delhi or New York or Tokyo?
@marguicha (223850)
• Chile
9 Aug 10
I haveonly been to New York. There there are lots of skyscrapers (I imagine that happens in Tokyo too). So the population lives in a smaller area than in Mexico city. I imagine that Mexico City has not so many tall buildings because it´s an earthquake zone.
I know that New Dehli is a very big city, but the last time I read about population it wasn´t as big as Mexico city. I´ll check.
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
9 Aug 10
I have never been to Mexico City and probably never will because of my severe corn allergy.
I do think that it is a very interesting place, and Mexico is a pretty amazing country, but Mexico City was pretty much the creation of the Aztec, it was a marshy lake before they started building on it.
The Maya were an amazing people in their own right, but as a powerful civilization they were pretty much gone by the time the Spanish arrived. They were basically a few villages that remembered their former greatness and told the Spanish.
Not to say that they weren't great tho. But they weren't in Mexico City
@marguicha (223850)
• Chile
9 Aug 10
You are very right. Mayas lived more towards Central America. But in museums you can see that they traded with the people who were where Mexico City is now. But probably it was before Cortés came. Even Teaotihuacán, the great piramids near Mexico City, are not aztecs. There were many cultures at diferent times that were incredible. Maybe none of them had the knowledge of the mayas, but the aztecs were a powerful empire.
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@kingparker (9673)
• United States
9 Aug 10
To be honest with you. I want to go to Mexico, and make my trip blog there if I can. For the past years, I had planned on vacations to go to the Latino countries, but I just delay my plan year after year. For sure, I would go to Mexico city one day, but I don't know when I would go yet, what a shame.
