Two kilometers south of San Ángel, the Ciudad Universitaria is the main campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). With about 3330,000 students and 37,000 teachers, it is Latin America’s largest university. Among its alumni are five former Mexican presidents; Audre Lorde, black-American activist, feminist and poet; Mexican journalist Elena Poniatowska, who famously wrote about the student massacre of 1968; and Alfonso Cuarón, the first Latin-American to win a director's Oscar (for Gravity).


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1. MUAC

1.14 MILES

Designed by veteran architect Teodoro González de León, the contemporary art museum's sloping, minimalist-style glass facade stands in stark contrast to…

2. Museo de El Carmen

1.15 MILES

A storehouse of magnificent sacred art in a former school run by the Carmelite order. The collection includes oils by Mexican master Cristóbal de…

3. Plaza San Jacinto

1.17 MILES

Every Saturday the Bazaar Sábado brings masses of color and crowds of people to this San Ángel square, 500m west of Avenida Insurgentes. Museo Casa del…

4. Museo Casa del Risco

1.18 MILES

Inside the courtyard of this museum, midway along Plaza San Jacinto’s north side, is an elaborate fountain, a mad mosaic of Talavera tile and Chinese…

5. Jardín de la Bombilla

1.19 MILES

In this tropically abundant, pruned park spreading east of Avenida Insurgentes, paths encircle the Monumento a Álvaro Obregón, a monolithic shrine to the…

6. Monumento a Álvaro Obregón

1.19 MILES

This monument in La Bombilla park in San Ángel is the work of Mexican sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo and dates from 1935 to commemorate the murder of President…

8. Universum

1.31 MILES

A huge science museum offering fun-filled attractions for kids, such as a planetarium and permanent exhibits that explore biodiversity, the human brain…