Mexico City's "Centro Histórico" is an area of more than 600 blocks in the heart of the city. It contains more than 1500 buildings which have been declared to be of historical importance. Beyond the tourist attractions, it is a work-a-day district in which the ground floor of a colonial mansion may be occupied by everyday shops; an architectural jumble in which buildings from the 18th through the twentieth centuries stand next to each other. It is not always a beautiful area, but it is always an interesting and busy part of the city.
Here are a few random photos of street scenes in the "Centro Histórico" which I took a couple weeks ago...
Street food dining on the sidewalk
One of the district's street being torn up and repaved
The top of the Latin American Tower, a mid-twentieth century skyscraper that was once the city's tallest, peaks above the buildings of the "Centro Histórico".
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