Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

On a brilliantly sunny cloudless morning, I headed over to the revered location.

which now rests beneath Mexico City's historic center, where the Spanish built their own colonial administrative heart, as well as the ornate Metropolitan Cathedral, which still looms over the expansive Zocalo, or main plaza.

The vestiges of the Tenochtitlan lie under our feet as we walk, explained Paul Barrera, who has been the director since 1991 of the Urban Archaeology Program, known by the Spanish acronym PAU, which oversees excavations in the historic area.

This is why we are slowly building a network of underground museums.

And important to know, Uber works seamlessly throughout the city and is recommended as a way to get around.

What are we going to see when we're there? We are going to see the historic center and Zocalo, which is the massive main plaza that's surrounded by the Metropolitan Cathedral, the National Palace with Diego Rivera's famous murals, the Templo Mayor, which is the little heart of the Aztec Empire that was discovered beneath the city in 1978.

And if we take a 45-minute ride from the city, we see the Sun and Pyramid of the Moon, which are among one of the most impressive ancient sites in the area.

And then the food and museum scene in Mexico City is unmatched.

le torah um and you know this was founded by uh 43 uh portuguese immigrants and um The building that it's in now was constructed in 1880 and inaugurated by the great Princess Isabel, who we talked about a little earlier.

Another really cool thing that we walked over to is the Metropolitan Cathedral.

This is dedicated to my dude, St. Sebastian.

Oh, my

You don't need a ticket or anything.

You can go right in.

And this is Rio's former major cathedral before the Metropolitan Cathedral was constructed in the 1900s.

And it's where Pedro II was crowned emperor of Brazil in 1841.