Mexico Travel Guía

If you spend a few days or although it is one evening in Mexico D. F, the socket is, undoubtedly, of forced visit. Declared World heritage for the UNESCO in 1987, is the main square of Mexico D.F, almost the emblem of the city. It impresses for its size and for its esthetics, since it has fitted a big architectural variety, which lodges the different governmental buildings.

The socket is considered to be the biggest square of the world. Every side measures 200 meters long. In fact, it is the Square of the Constitution, but it begun being known like “socket“ after the war of the Independence, when the Mexicans knocked down of the way of the square the statue of Carlos IV, so that only the pedestal or socket stayed.

The square is a big architectural sample of all the cultures and historical periods,
They tell that in the Polite 1520 it ordered to pave it with stones of the ruins of the Aztec buildings. The Socket lodges buildings that go give of the Aztec period up to the colonial one, with its sumptuous buildings.

In her they have capacity many cultural samples. An act worth seeing is the dance of the natives. Every week, ballet dancers with pens remember the indigenous legacy with its particular dances, putting a color stroke to the square

Also it is the head office of many governmental buildings, like elPalacio National and the dependences on the government of D. F. Every day, at 18:00 p.m., miitares they move the flag of the center up to the National Palace.

A square with the original Mexican delight that breathes history for all its corners -