Secret Mexico City Guide - Mario T S Yair

Let Secret Mexico guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Mexico travel guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Secret Mexico features 185+ secret and unusual locations.Inside Secret Mexico City: The forgotten cafe where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mache, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk...Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Mexico City is filled with hidden treasures revealed only to the residents and visitors who leave the beaten path.An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Mexico City well or for those wishing to discover another facet of the city.