It is located in the Plaza de la Constitución and is the seat of the Federal Executive Power. Entering through the central door, the visitor finds on the main staircase and around the patio, several murals painted by Diego Rivera between 1929 and 1935, with more than two hundred characters that illustrate the history of Mexico from the arrival of Quetzalcóatl until the Revolution of 1910.
THE NATIONAL PALACE
It is located in the Plaza de la Constitución and is the seat of the Federal Executive Power. Entering through the central door, the visitor finds on the main staircase and around the patio, several murals painted by Diego Rivera between 1929 and 1935, with more than two hundred characters that illustrate the history of Mexico from the arrival of Quetzalcóatl until the Revolution of 1910.
THE PALACE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Headquarters of the Federal District government, it is characterized by its baroque style and by its twelve semicircular arches on the upper floor. In 1910 a floor was added and said arches were covered, leaving a balcony in each of them. The adjoining building, which also belongs to the Federal District Department, located between Avenida 20 de Noviembre and Pino Suárez, was built where the Malinche houses once stood, in what was called the Portal de las Flores at that time because There a ditch used to pass where the flowers that came from Xochimilco were traded.
Source: Aeroméxico Tips No. 32 Mexico City / Fall 2004
