Venustiano Carranza
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza, known as Venustiano Carranza, was a Mexican land owner, revolutionary, and politician who served as the 44th President of Mexico from 1917 until his assassination in 1920, during the Mexican Revolution.
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza, known as Venustiano Carranza, was a Mexican land owner, revolutionary, and politician who served as the 44th President of Mexico from 1917 until his assassination in 1920, during the Mexican Revolution. He was previously Mexico's de facto head of state as Primer Jefe of the Constitutionalist faction from 1914 to 1917, and previously served as a senator and governor for Coahuila. He played the leading role in drafting the Constitution of 1917 and maintained Mexican neutrality in World War I.
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Worth seeing in and around Venustiano Carranza
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.
- 01Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, also commonly called the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico. It is situated on top of the former Aztec sacred precinct near the Templo Mayor on the northern side of the Plaza de la Constitución in the historic center of Mexico City.
3.1 km · cathedral in Mexico City · Wikipedia - 02National Museum of Anthropology
The National Museum of Anthropology is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico.
8.7 km · national museum of Mexico · Wikipedia - 03Aztec 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.
8.9 km · 16th century Mexica sculpture · Wikipedia - 04Templo Mayor
The Templo Mayor was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenōchtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica.
2.9 km · main Temple of Tenochtitlan · Wikipedia - 05Zócalo
Zócalo is the common name of the main square in central Mexico City. Prior to the conquest by Spain, it was the main ceremonial center in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.
3.2 km · plaza in Mexico City · Wikipedia - 06Chapultepec 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".
8.4 km · palace in Mexico · Wikipedia - 07Angel 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.
6.8 km · monument in Mexico City · Wikipedia - 08Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe, officially called Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe is a basilica of the Catholic Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary in her invocation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the foot of the Hill of Tepeyac in the Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City. It belongs to the Primate Archdiocese of Mexico through the Guadalupana Vicariate, which since November 4, 2018, is in the care of Monsignor Efraín Hernández Díaz, who has the title of general and episcopal vicar of Guadalupe and abbot of the basilica.
4.7 km · basilica in Mexico City · Wikipedia - 09Torre 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.
7.7 km · skyscraper in Mexico City · Wikipedia - 10Torre 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.
7.3 km · skyscraper in Mexico City · Wikipedia
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Getting to Venustiano Carranza
- Airports
- Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX), 4 km · Felipe Ángeles (NLU), 35 km · Adolfo López Mateos (TLC), 50 km
- Stations
- Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez, 3.6 km
- Toluca → Venustiano Carranza60 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · MX$65–85
- Puebla → Venustiano Carranza104 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · MX$115–150
- Querétaro → Venustiano Carranza172 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · MX$195–265
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- Get inYou can have a look for shared rides on Blablacar.
- Get aroundThere are plenty of franchised private buses, minibuses and vans, known as peseros and combis, which are less reliable and safe but reach more destinations.
- Get aroundIn the metropolitan area, there is a commuter train line and the Mexibús bus rapid transit system, but most destinations are only served by private minibuses and vans.
- Get aroundThe Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, known as the Metro, is one of the largest and most patronized subway systems in the world, with 12 lines that measure more than and carry 4.4 million people every day.
- Get aroundIt's not recommended to leave the cable car stations and stroll around due to safety.
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Next door to Venustiano Carranza
Venustiano Carranza is 3 km from Mexico City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mexico City Metrorapid transit railway in Mexico City5 km
- Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguezrace track in Mexico City4.7 km
- Iztapalapaterritorial demarcation of Mexico City9.6 km
- Historic downtown of Mexico Cityoriginal colonial layout of Mexico's capital city3.2 km
- Palace of Fine artscultural centre in Mexico City3.9 km
- Azcapotzalcoterritorial demarcation of Mexico City9.9 km