Chapultepec Park, a few blocks west, begins Chapultepec Park, 2,100 acres of greenery with woods, marble statues, playgrounds, jogging paths, restaurants, manmade lakes with small boats, botanical gardens, a fine zoo and a children's petting zoo. Few cities anywhere in the world boast such a spacious park and as many as half a million residents head for the grounds on Sundays.

Anthropology Museum The world-renowned Museum of Anthropology, designed by famed Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez and considered the finest of its kind in the world, has been one of the city's major attractions since it opened in 1964. Constructed around a patio, it contains sections devoted to all regions of the country, from the earliest humans to arrive on the continent to the arrival of the Spaniards in 1519.

Polanco Once exclusively residential, the fashionable Polanco district has become a major commercial zone with many of the city's most upscale boutiques, shopping centers, and restaurants lining its main thoroughfare, Avenida Presidente Masaryk.