Mexico City Region Travel Guide

Intense cobalt blue saturates the walls of Frida Kahlo’s house in Mexico City’s Coyoacan neighborhood. She wrote in her diary that the color represented electricity, purity, and love, and fans of the artist will recognize this same deep azure tone from her idiosyncratic oil paintings. This particular color so entranced Frida that she named the home where she was born, lived, and died “La Casa Azul” – The Blue House in Spanish. She believed that cobalt blue... Read More

It’s unusual for temporary structures built for a world’s fair to survive past the day the turnstiles stop admitting eager visitors. Along with San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts and Seattle’s Pacific Science Center, the Moorish Kiosk in Mexico City’s Santa Maria de la Ribera neighborhood is a particularly fine example of world’s fair architecture. Built for exhibition in New Orleans as Mexico’s pavilion at the World’s Industrial and Cotton... Read More

I chanced upon this pair of novilleros, or apprentice bullfighters, one afternoon while walking in Viveros de Coyoacan, Mexico City’s combination plant nursery and public park. The incongruous sight of a young man wielding the magenta and gold capote while wearing gym clothes caught my eye. That alone would have been fascinating – that his opponent was a guy pushing a wheeled set of bullhorns made this moment one of my most unusual and treasured times in... Read More