Coyoacan, Xochimilco and University City

When one visits Coyoacan, one feels as being transported back in time, the ambience, the restaurants, the shops as well as the markets have been preserved through the centuries. It is in this old neighbourhood that our most magical adventure begins. With such a rich centennial legacy, the Coyoacan neighbourhood drew towards itself a vast variety of artists of different fields, as well as philosophers and actors throughout the 20th Century. We´ll visit the Coyoacan Market, where we´ll find food, fruits, vegetables as well as typical dishes prepared in the traditional way, traditional crafts of Mexico, we can have lunch in the centre square of Coyoacan where there is a great variety of options to choose from in order to feast the palate.

One of the houses that stands out the most for its fame is the “Blue House” formally known as the Frida Kahlo House Museum. We´ll visit this well recognized house, where we´ll get more acquainted with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the controversial duo, due to their private life as well as their public one. They played an important part in the international political scene when they housed Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia.
You can admire their works on display, as well as where they lived together until Frida´s death.

Of course, we cannot but admire a part of the collection of the Frida Kahlo dresses, making her, even today, a worldwide recognizable figure.

We´ll continue our tour due South of Mexico City until we reach Xochimilco. This place housed one of the indigenous groups that allied themselves with Hernan Cortes from the beginning, preserving its chinampas (artificial islands), gardens that are surrounded by water where flowers and edibles are grown for sale. The tradition is to go on a ride punting, while enjoying the landscape and the music as well as the crafts and food and drink being offered, all of this while leisurely riding on a flat bottom boat called Trajinera.