Diego Rivera Murals & Historical Center Tour.
Inclusions:
- Expert Tour Guide.
- All Entrances.
- 10:00 h Meeting Point / Duration 3.5 hrs.
- No shopping stops.
- Group tour.
- Difficulty: easy for everyone from 0 to 100 years old
Where do we meet? / Where does the tour end?
You will meet your expert guide in the historic center of Mexico City at Zócalo, right in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral at 10:00 h. It will ends at 13:30 h at the Fine Palace of Arts.
Meeting point:
What to bring?
- Sunglasses.
- Hat.
- Sunscreen.
- Bring an umbrella in the rainy season.
Tour Description
Get an expert tour guide to dig into the shaping of modern Mexico through the murals of Diego Rivera. There are more than five hundred murals by Diego Rivera in the heart of Mexico City that, according to the artist, there were aimed to bring back ethnic and cultural identity to locals who had suffer and overcome the Mexican Revolution. Besides Diego Rivera, the mexican muralism art movement was leaded by other artist such as Siqueiros and Orozco, etc. Your expert tour guide in Mexico city will explain you in detail the muralism concept and its impact in modern art through the eyes of this great three artis. In addition, get amazed with the astonishing mixture of architectural styles from Aztec times to the beginning of the XX century and its European history.
Sites Visited
- Murals in two different government buildings.
- Zócalo square.
- Templo Mayor (Great Aztec Temple).
- Metropolitan Cathedral.
- Bellas Artes Museum.
- Madero Street.