Most beautiful streets in Mexico City

One of the large joys of surviving successful Mexico City is that its streets are inactive walkable — if you cognize however to dodge breached sidewalks and escaped cobblestones. GuruWalk’s astir caller ranking agrees with me: the superior bushed Tokyo among the champion walking cities successful 2025. Sadly, that’s thing you recognize erstwhile you suffer it. Growing up successful the bosom of Coyoacán, I took for granted that determination would beryllium a café oregon vintage bookstore connected each country and that churros and tarot readings were disposable conscionable blocks away.

As a city that’s implicit 700 years old, the Mexican superior offers a unsocial assortment of architectural styles and humanities sites easy accessible connected foot. Craving a assemblage vibe? Chimalistac is your choice. Eager for a Porfiriato-era pedestrian street? The Historic Center is for you. How astir a much Bauhaus feel? We’ve got plentifulness successful the southbound of the city! After years of enjoying agelong walks successful my hometown, here’s an insider’s digest of the astir beauteous streets successful Mexico City.

Avenida Francisco Sosa: Stroll similar a hacendado

Avenida Francisco Sosa holds immoderate of the astir beauteous haciendas successful Mexico City, specified arsenic the Instituto Italiano de Cultura and the Fonoteca Nacional. (Gobierno de la Ciudad de México)

Running from Avenida Universidad to Calle Tres Cruces, Avenida Francisco was primitively built successful the 16th period arsenic the main transportation to the municipality of San Ángel erstwhile Coyoacán and San Ángel were abstracted municipalities.

After implicit 500 years of history, Francisco Sosa is contiguous framed by aged ash trees and offers magnificent baroque temples and colonial-era haciendas, arsenic good arsenic immoderate of the champion bakeries successful town. One of my implicit favorites is Café Ruta de la Seda.

Although it’s not located precisely connected Francisco Sosa, you tin locomotion your mode from Coyoacán’s zócalo to Calle Pino. If successful doubt, hunt for Parque de la Aurora and you’ll find the spot connected 1 of the park’s corners. Order a portion of Kyoto barroom and convey maine later. Also, effort arriving aboriginal for breakfast, earlier 10 a.m., oregon expect a enactment of implicit an hour!

Calle Amargura: Stepping backmost into aged San Ángel

Small courtyards similar these are easy recovered crossed San Ángel, 1 of the neighborhoods with the astir beauteous streets successful Mexico City. (Milenagh93 / CC BY SA 4.0)

With haciendas and convents gracefully built implicit centuries-old cobblestone streets, this is 1 of San Ángel’s astir iconic streets. Gorgeous bougainvillea bushes framework the woody doors that separate this confederate vicinity of Mexico City. Arched alleyways and Baroque churches tin beryllium recovered arsenic you locomotion on Calle Amargura, offering absorbing opportunities to admit the spiritual architecture of 17th-century Mexico.

If you’re escaped connected a Saturday morning, bash not miss the accidental to sojourn the creation marketplace successful San Ángel’s zócalo. After enjoying the accumulation offered by section artists that weekend, it is simply a joyousness to walk the day walking done small streets similar Amargura. Before you cognize it, you mightiness find yourself on Plaza de los Arcángeles. Formerly the cardinal portion of the San Jacinto Monastery, this baroque country successful San Ángel has 3 chromatic benches, each dedicated to an archangel: Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, alluding to the spot’s name.

Avenida Francisco I. Madero: The heartstring of the Historic Center

Window buying crossed Avenida Madero is simply a quintessential Mexico City experience. (Thomas Ledl / CC BY SA 4.0)

Often referred to simply arsenic Madero, this avenue is presently the main entree roadworthy to the Zócalo and 1 of the busiest pedestrian routes successful presumption of tourism and buying successful the full capital.

If you’re an architecture nerd similar me, bash not miss the accidental to visit Casa de los Azulejos, a luxurious illustration of however Talavera Poblana ceramics were erstwhile utilized to decorate the exteriors of Baroque buildings. Built successful the 18th century, it is catalogued arsenic 1 of the Mexico City’s “most spectacular” residential palaces, successful the words of the city’s government.

Ever had meal astatine a Sanborns? This is your chance! With tenable prices, you tin bask accepted Mexican cuisine, with the restaurant’s peculiar seasoning that feels similar home. Having luncheon astatine the Casa de los Azulejos’s Sanborns subdivision is similar having grandma’s blistery cocoa successful a luxurious 300-year-old Baroque palace. On Madero, that’s really possible.

Calle Isabel la Católica: Sor Juana’s aged haunt

From the Museo del Estanquillo’s terrace, you tin bask the presumption of the religion of La Profesa and the timepiece of the Edificio La Mexicana, which has been moving non-stop since 1905. (Museo del Estanquillo)

On the country of Isabel la Católica and Avenida Cinco de Mayo, you’ll find a ceramic plaque: “This thoroughfare was called Carreras (races), down which the conquistadors fled during the siege of Tenochtitlan.” Today, the thoroughfare bears the sanction of the monarch who sent those conquistadors. Beyond the taste breviary, Calle Isabel la Católica is dotted with fantastic cafes tally by section chefs and baristas, often graduates of the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.

When I was successful precocious school, my parent taught concern medication astatine the Claustro. Her students utilized to amusement maine these trendy spots, and I learned to separate the sensation of burnt java with them. Every present and then, I accompanied my parent to the assemblage and enjoyed wandering around the Historic Center Center. That’s erstwhile I came crossed Museo del Estanquillo’s entity terrace. It’s easy 1 of the loveliest views downtown, wherever you tin bask a bully cupful of java and delve into what Italians telephone “dolce acold niente”: the joyousness of doing perfectly nothing, watching passersby below.

Avenida Presidente Masaryk: For the couture connoisseur

Since 2017, Avenida Masaryk has hosted the Flowers and Gardens Festival (FYJA). (Magdalena Montiel / Cuartoscuro.com)

Prada, Dior, Cartier, Louis Vuitton and different haute couture houses person recovered a location connected Avenida Presidente Masaryk. As 1 of Polanco’s astir walkable streets, with wide sidewalks and bully spots for brunching, the eyes tin feast connected Mexico City’s California-style architecture. Polanco screams expensive: the country’s astir exclusive hotels and restaurants person thrived here, and radical bask strolling crossed Masaryk connected a Sunday morning.

If you privation to dive into Polanco’s chic fantasy, bash not miss the accidental of brunching astatine Casa Portuguesa. You tin locomotion from Masaryk to Avenida Emilio Castelar. Just successful beforehand of gorgeous Parque Lincoln, bask a fantastic croissant with jelly to start. Even though their specialty is bacalao, my idiosyncratic favourite is their huevos cazuela. End your meal with a bully latte and rejoice successful the neighborhood’s luxury.

Calle Colima: Where Roma Norte truly lives

Calle Colima runs adjacent Plaza Rio de Janeiro and its iconic Witches Building. (Noemí Jiménez/Pexels)

I deliberation Calle Álvaro Obregón is overrated. Want to truly dive heavy into Roma Norte? Head consecutive to Calle Colima. Home to immoderate of the capital’s trendiest fittingness studios and bistros, this tree-lined median thoroughfare could go the bosom of your integer nomad era.

Just similar the surrounding streets, Colima has textile plan studios that harvester accepted backstrap loom techniques with the latest manner trends. In Roma Norte, not lone tin you deterioration fashion, but you tin usage fashion. Along with respective vintage covering stores, you tin find decorator houses successful each specialty. Ceramics, candles, jewelry — the sky’s the limit.

So representation this: you conscionable had the cleanable yoga people connected your cleanable yoga mat successful your cleanable outfit, and you’re crave the cleanable latte to decorativeness the cleanable morning. You locomotion crossed Colima and find Constela Café: a fantastic cafecito wherever you’ll bid an iced coffee. You tin besides effort their ceremonial people matcha to spell and bask the remainder of the time walking astir 1 of the astir beauteous streets successful Mexico City.

Andrea Fischer contributes to the features table astatine Mexico News Daily. She has edited and written for National Geographic en Español and Muy Interesante México, and continues to beryllium an advocator for thing that screams science. Or yoga. Or both.