Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city imprinted with seven centuries of cultural history.

The conquering Spaniards destroyed the island city of Tenochtitlan and started to drain the lake that surrounded it. They built the capital of New Spain, Mexico City, the “city of palaces”, on the ...

His remains were re-buried in Mexico City at his own wish ... or separate kingdom and an overseas territory known as New Spain. Its war for independence began in 1810 and was led by descendants ...

but it would take years for the Spanish to establish control in New Spain. The messy history of the Spanish and Aztecs is still strikingly visible in the center of Mexico City. Right next to the ...