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Mexico City: Frida, Rivera, Xochimilco
Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, MX · 5 stops · 16 km (10.1 mi) · about 1 h 4 min driving · 6 spoken stories
For Frida Kahlo fans and mural enthusiasts, this drive connects the artist's cobalt-blue house in Coyoacán with Diego Rivera's pyramid museum and ends at the Xochimilco canals. Start at Casa Azul, stop for tacos at the local market and explore colonial plazas, then head south past Rivera's Anahuacalli to the quieter Cuemanco embarcadero. About an hour's drive.
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
From Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán to Cuemanco, Xochimilco
The stops
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Frida Kahlo Museum (Casa Azul)
The Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as The Blue House for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It is in the Colonia del Carmen neighborhood of Coyoacán in Mexico City.
“Here we are at the Blue House, and yes, those walls really are cobalt blue.”
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Mercado de Coyoacán
Calle Ignacio Allende, Colonia Del Carmen, Coyoacán
“This is where Coyoacán eats.”
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Jardín Centenario & Plaza Hidalgo
Coyoacán is a borough in Mexico City. The former village became the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl Coyōhuahcān, composed of coyōhuah and -cān ('place'), and therefore means 'place of those who own coyotes', which the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco dom…
“Welcome to the old heart of Coyoacán.”
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Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
The Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum is a museum and arts center in Mexico City, located in the San Pablo de Tepetlapa neighborhood of Coyoacán, 10 minutes by car from the Frida Kahlo Museum, as well as from the tourist neighborhood of this district.
“After all that cobalt blue, here's Diego Rivera in black volcanic stone.”
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Embarcadero Cuemanco
Xochimilco is a borough of Mexico City. The borough is centered on the formerly independent city of Xochimilco, which was established on what was the southern shore of Lake Xochimilco in the precolonial period.
“This is Cuemanco, the calm way onto the Xochimilco canals.”
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