The Radisson, located next to the main Periferico South freeway and Insurgentes Avenue, provides convenient access to surrounding Mexico City attractions. Our hotel faces Perisur Mall, home to the largest movie complex in Latin America. Our hotel in Mexico City, Mexico is also located in the important cultural, recreational and business area of Mexico's capital city. Guests can easily visit Aztec ruins or the Zona Rosa, see famous Diego Rivera murals or watch an exciting Cruz Azul soccer game. Attractions near the Radisson include the México National Autonomous University Campus, Sala Netzahualcoyotl Music Hall, the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Anahuacalli Museum, the Soumaya Museum, Loreto and Cuicuilco Malls and the Medical Hospital.
Visit these attractions near our hotel in Mexico City, Mexico:
Anahuacalli Museum Designed by artist Diego Rivera, this museum houses a collection of artifacts from Mexico's indigenous civilizations. Phone: 56-17-43-10, 56-17-37-97
Carrillo Gil Art Museum This museum displays works by several prominent Mexican painters, including Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. Phone: 55-50-62-60, 55-50-39-83
Mexico National Autonomous University Originally founded in 1551, Mexico National Autonomous University is widely known for the Juan O’Gorman murals on the library building and the Diego Rivera murals on the stadium.
Museo Nacional de Arte Located inside a 1911 office building, this museum was founded in 1982 and showcases Mexican art from the period between 1810 and 1950. Phone: 55-5130-3400
Museo Nacional de Antropologia The National Museum of Anthropology (Museo Nacional de Antropologia) focuses on each of the cultures that have created modern Mexico. Visit the Aztec Room to see the Aztec calendar and a reproduction of Moctezuma's headdress. Phone: 55-5553-6266
Sala Nezahualcoyotl Music Hall Located on the campus of Mexico National Autonomous University, this concert hall hosts a variety of musical performances from September to June. Phone: 5622-7113
Palacio de Bellas Artes Palacio de Bellas Artes, the premiere opera house in Mexico City, is a gorgeous Beaux-Arts building that also houses the National Museum of Architecture. Don’t miss the Diego Rivera murals or the Tiffany stained glass stage curtain. Phone: 55-5521-9251
Plaza de las Tres Culturas Located near the Zócalo, the Plaza de las Tres Culturas celebrates the convergence of three cultures. Aztec temple ruins stand in front of the colonial-era Church of Santiago, and both are surrounded by the modern city.
Temple Mayor The great Templo Mayor was a sacred place to the Aztecs and was consequently destroyed by the Spanish. Today it is a part of Plaza de las Tres Culturas. Visit the nearby museum to learn more about these Aztec ruins. Phone: 55-5542-4943
Nearby Corporations:
American Express
Bayer Laboratories
Ford
Pepsico
Schering Plough Laboratories
Directions: From Airport Boulevard, turn right on Viaducto Miguel Aleman Freeway. Exit right on Tlalpan Avenue and turn right on Periferico Freeway to Perisur Mall. Exit right to hotel, approximately 14 miles from downtown.
Airport: Benito Juarez International Airport is located 15 miles/50 minutes away; taxi service is available.
About Mexico City
As one the world's largest cities, Mexico City offers visitors a world-class capital that bridges an historic past and a vital future. Today, Mexico City sits in a high valley surrounded by mountains. Founded in 1325, when the Aztec Empire established their capital city Tenochtitlán, much of the land of modern Mexico City was covered by Lake Texcoco. The invasion by Spain in 1521 destroyed Tenochtitlán and the Aztec Empire. Ultimately, the Spaniards drained the lake due to flooding. Today the Colonial Era lives on in monumental architecture and quiet Catholic churches. But the 21st century Mexico City is also a center of commerce and industry as witnessed by the World Trade Center Mexico and thriving market places. Guests of our Mexico City Radisson hotel can travel back in time at Plaza de las Tres Culturas. Here three cultures meet in the guise of a Colonial Era church and the Aztec ruins of Templo Mayor surrounded by the contemporary city. The Centro Histórico and nearby Zócalo, the third largest public square in the world, are home to the impressive Catedral Metropolitana. But Mexico City offers more than large churches and impressive museums like the Museo Nacional de Antropología. There are dozens of more intimate museums devoted to a single focus like the False Coin Museum. Anahuacalli Museum was designed by Diego Rivera to house his world-class collection of pre-Columbian artifacts, and Museo Frida Kahlo was the home of Kahlo and Diego Rivera and now houses her art. But beyond Aztec ruins, unique museums and other Mexico City attractions, guests of our Mexico City Radisson hotel ought to save time to watch a soccer game by one of the local Mexican soccer teams like Cruz Azul. Visit the Zona Rosa and stroll the pedestrian friendly streets, visit charming shops and dine at a great restaurant. Take your time and discover what brought the Aztec, Spanish and the rest of the world to this City of Palaces.
Did you know?
One of North America's oldest cities, Mexico City was originally built along two lakes, which the Spaniards eventually drained. To bring water to the populace, an underground aquifer was tapped in the early 20th century, and reserves have since been steadily depleted. As a result, underlying soils have compacted, and in less than a century, Mexico City has fallen thirty feet - and continues to do so. As underground pipes rupture, buildings crack and subway tunnels shift, the city must expend huge amounts of money to repair the damage, whose end is not even in sight.