With good reason, guidebooks extol the virtues of the museums in Mexico's capital, including the world-famous Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) and the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (National Anthropology Museum).
From here it's a 1.2km stroll southwest to the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum), as spectacular for its Art Deco design as it is for its murals.
The church, the Mision Nuestra Senora de Loreto , located on Calles Pino Suarez and Salvatierra, is in good condition and the Museo de las Misiones museum beside it illustrates how the indigenous people lived when the Europeans arrived.
In March 2011, the Espacio Metropol Parasols, a museum and terrace complex that resembles a series of massive mushrooms, opened in the Plaza de la Encarnacion.