Secret Mexico City Guide

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.

Mario Yaír is a history enthusiast and ruthless explorer from Mexico City. He graduated in Audiovisual Communication, organizes guided tours and has collaborated in publications such as Letra Roja, Time Out México and Atlas Obscura. Thanks to his wanderings, he is one of the few people who knows the fourth section of the Forest of Chapultepec, the phantom station of the subway and the tunnels of Coyoacán; in addition to establishing a close friendship with the manatees of Xochimilco and the giant rat of the Merced. He currently resides in Mexico City.

The forgotten caf

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