Mexico City

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City has many beautiful palaces that were built during the
Spanish colonial period. These buildings now houses government offices,
museums, or shops. Mexico City is Mexico's center of higher education,
transportation and tourism.
Mexico City has more than four thousand elementary, vocational, and
high schools. Mexico's oldest and largest university is the National
Autonomous University of Mexico. It was founded in 1551, and has more than
300,000 students. In 1954 its new campus was completed on the Pedregal, a
plain in the southern part of the capital. Many of Mexico's leading
architects and artist designed and decorated the colorful campus in a
mixture of Indian, Spanish Colonial, and modern styles.
In Mexico almost all roads lead to Mexico City. It is also the
center of Mexico's railroad network. the city's subway are decorated in
traditional Indian, Mexican, and Spanish styles, and began operating in
1970. The huge Benito Juarez International Airport opened in ...

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of the Three Cultures. It has ruins
of ancient Aztec temples and of a Spanish Church built in 1524.
Representing the third culture is a huge government housing project of
boldly modern architecture; The Bosilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe is
Mexico's most famous religious shrine and stands in northern Mexico City,
at the foot of Tepeyac Hill. Legend has it that she appeared on the hill to
Juan Diego, a poor Indian, in December of 1531. Pilgrims from all over
Mexico and from other countries come to worship at the shrine throughout
the year; Attractions north of Mexico City include handsome Spanish
colonial churches in Acalman (or Acolman) and Tepoztlan, Indian pyramids
and temples at San ...

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