Naucalpan de Juárez

Worth seeing in and around Naucalpan de Juárez

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   National Museum of Anthropology

   The National Museum of Anthropology is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico.

   7.7 km · national museum of Mexico · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Aztec sun stone

   The Aztec sun stone is a late post-classic Mexica sculpture housed in the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, and is perhaps the most famous work of Mexica sculpture. It measures 3.6 metres in diameter and 98 centimetres thick, and weighs 24,590 kg.

   7.6 km · 16th century Mexica sculpture · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Q523194

   Chapultepec, more commonly called the "Bosque de Chapultepec" in Mexico City, is one of the largest city parks in Mexico, measuring in total just over 866 hectares. Centered on a rock formation called Chapultepec Hill, one of the park's main functions is as an ecological space in Greater Mexico City.

   8.1 km · urban park in Mexico City · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Museo Soumaya

   The Museo Soumaya is a private museum in Mexico City and a non-profit cultural institution with two museum buildings in Mexico City — Plaza Loreto opened in 1994 and Plaza Carso opened in 2011. It has over 66,000 works from 30 centuries of art including sculptures from Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, 19th- and 20th-century Mexican art and an extensive repertoire of works by European old masters and masters of modern western art such as Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Tintoretto.

   5.2 km · art museum in Mexico City, Mexico, with two venues: Plaza Carso and Plaza Loreto. · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Chapultepec Castle

   Chapultepec Castle is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name Chapultepec is the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "on the hill of the grasshopper".

   8.5 km · palace in Mexico · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Angel of Independence

   The Angel of Independence, most commonly known by the shortened name El Ángel and officially known as Monumento a la Independencia, is a victory column on a roundabout on the major thoroughfare of Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City. El Ángel was built in 1910 during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz by architect Antonio Rivas Mercado, to commemorate the centennial of the beginning of Mexico's War of Independence.

   9.1 km · monument in Mexico City · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Torre Mayor

   The Torre Mayor is an office skyscraper in Mexico City, Mexico that is the eighth tallest building in Mexico with a height of 225 meters. From its completion in 2003 until 2010, it was the tallest building in Latin America; it was surpassed by the 236 m high Ocean Two in Panama City, Panama.

   8.7 km · skyscraper in Mexico City · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Torre Ejecutiva Pemex

   The Pemex Executive Tower is an office skyscraper in Mexico City. The 211-metre international style tower was built between 1979 and 1984.

   7.8 km · skyscraper in Mexico City · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Senate of the Republic

   The Senate of the Republic, constitutionally the Chamber of Senators of the Honorable Congress of the Union, is the upper house of Mexico's bicameral Congress. It currently consists of 128 members, who serve six-year terms.

   9.7 km · upper house of the parliament of Mexico · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Vasconcelos Library

    Biblioteca Vasconcelos, also known as the Megabiblioteca by the press, is a library in the Buenavista neighborhood of Mexico City. It is dedicated to José Vasconcelos, the philosopher and former president of the National Library of Mexico.

    9.6 km · public library of Mexico City · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Torres de Satelite

   Avila Camacho (in an island in the middle of the busy Periferico (the major highway circling Mexico City)).

2. 02
   Parque Quetzalcóatl

   Villa Los Naranjos 53297, Paseos del Bosque.

3. 03
   Plaza Revolucion

   16 de Septiembre Manzana 005, Naucalpan Centro.

4. 04
   El Conde Archaeological Zone

   Ancient ruins from the Preclassic period.

5. 05
   Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios

   Catholic shrine in the Los Remedios National Park.

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Things to do

Los Remedios is an urban park that is part of the Mexico national parks system. It protects the forests and historical sites around Cerro Moctezuma, a 2,300-meter-high mountain. It is a popular park for jogging, working out, horseback riding and dog walking. It covers about 900 hectares, mostly wooded with wide, marked trails, but is severely threatened by illegal squatters and deforestation.

1. 01
   Los Remedios National Park

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Where to eat

There are a lot of restaurants in this area, but most are unremarkable corporate-style concept restaurants with unexceptional cooking for a mass market clientele with fat wallets. There are casual eateries in all the myriad shopping centers and a lot of large restaurants that cluster along the Periferico (Blvd. Avila Camacho).

1. 01
   La Casa de los Olivos

   Casual restaurant serving traditional and regional Mexican dishes like milanesa or chile en nogada.

2. 02
   Porfirio's

   Manuel Avila Camacho 5, Toreo Parque Central,.

3. 03
   La Vaka

   Boulevard Manuel Ávila Camacho Norte Conjunto, San Miguel,.

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Getting to Naucalpan de Juárez

Airports

Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX), 18 km · Adolfo López Mateos (TLC), 38 km · Felipe Ángeles (NLU), 38 km

Stations

Observatorio, 9.4 km · Cuatro Caminos, 2.9 km · Revolución metro station, 9.6 km · Q3356972, 8.9 km · Auditorio, 7.3 km

• Puebla → Naucalpan de Juárez

  118 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · MX$130–175
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• Querétaro → Naucalpan de Juárez

  162 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · MX$190–250
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• Morelia → Naucalpan de Juárez

  205 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · MX$255–340
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