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MEXICO CITY’S CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS

A good place to start any visit is the , the enormous square that is the symbolic heart of Mexico City just as it was the center of Tenochtitlán before it. The adjacent to the square provides a good overview of life in the in Chapultepec Park gathers artifacts not just from the Aztec people, but also the Maya, Olmec, Toltec, and other pre-Columbian civilizations.

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