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Photo: Felipe Alfonso Castillo Vázquez, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Torre Mayor stands on Paseo de la Reforma and soars 225 meters above the ground with 29 high-speed elevators.
The Torre Mayor is an office skyscraper in Mexico City, Mexico that is the eighth tallest building in Mexico with a height of 225 meters. From its completion in 2003 until 2010, it was the tallest building in Latin America; it was surpassed by the 236 m (774 ft) high Ocean Two in Panama City, Panama. The Torre Mayor was developed by Canadian businessman Paul Reichmann, who also maintained part ownership until his death in 2013. It is also part-owned by a group of institutional investors. The building was designed by the architectural firms of Zeidler Partnership Architects and Executive Architects Adamson Associates Architects, both of Toronto. The structural engineers and designers were The Cantor Seinuk Group from New York City in association with Enrique Martínez Romero S.A. in Mexico City.
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Diana the Huntress Fountain
This fountain by Fernando Olaquibel was originally known as 'The Archer'. It depicts the beautiful Diana Cazadora aiming her arrow at infinity.
It's often thought that the Spanish brought the skills necessary to build aqueducts to Mexico, but that theory is turned on its head by the Aqueduct of Chapultepec, which was built by the Aztecs (Mexica) in 1425....about a century before the first Spaniards would arrive. The aqueducts once brought water to the park for its botanical gardens and baths of the Aztec nobility.
Ángel de la Independencia / Angel of Independence
A victory column on a roundabout over Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City. El Ángel was built to commemorate the centennial of the beginning of Mexico's War of Independence, celebrated in 1910.
Museo de la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
Mexico's stock exchange, like its peers in other countries, is mostly electronic today, so the trading floor is mostly quiet and sparsely populated, but visiting Mexico's home of the Bolsa is a must for anyone interested in the wheeling and dealing of big business. The view inside is remarkable with walls of screens flashing stock prices and trading activity while looking straight up gives you a spectacular vista of the inside of the exchange's iconic glass dome. The museum has a number of exhibits describing the stock exchange's history and changes over time.
Monument to Cuauhtémoc
Bust of Cuauhtémoc, the Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521 is displayed proudly.
Chocolate Museum
Explore the world of chocolate, from growing the beans through tasting candies or hot chocolate. A favorite of kids!