Polanco
Polanco is a neighborhood in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City.
Polanco is a neighborhood in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City. Polanco is an affluent colonia, noted for its luxury shopping along Presidente Masaryk Avenue, the most expensive street in Mexico, as well as for the numerous prominent cultural institutions located within the neighborhood.
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Worth seeing in and around Polanco
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.
6.7 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.
1.4 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.
1.3 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.
6.8 km · main Temple of Tenochtitlan · Wikipedia - 05Frida Kahlo Museum
The Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as The Blue House for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It is in the Colonia del Carmen neighborhood of Coyoacán in Mexico City.
9.5 km · historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo · Wikipedia - 06Zócalo
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.
6.6 km · plaza in Mexico City · Wikipedia - 07Museo 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.
1.1 km · art museum in Mexico City, Mexico, with two venues: Plaza Carso and Plaza Loreto. · Wikipedia - 08Q523194
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.
2.3 km · urban park in Mexico City · Wikipedia - 09Chapultepec 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".
2.2 km · palace in Mexico · Wikipedia - 10Angel 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.
3.1 km · monument in Mexico City · Wikipedia
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Getting to Polanco
- Airports
- Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX), 13 km · Felipe Ángeles (NLU), 39 km · Adolfo López Mateos (TLC), 40 km
- Toluca → Polanco50 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · MX$55–70
- Puebla → Polanco113 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · MX$125–165
- Querétaro → Polanco168 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · MX$195–260
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Polanco
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Polanco. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
From Wikivoyage: Mexico City, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Polanco
- Mexico City Metrorapid transit railway in Mexico City5.6 km
- Palace of Fine artscultural centre in Mexico City5.8 km
- Historic downtown of Mexico Cityoriginal colonial layout of Mexico's capital city6.7 km
- Azcapotzalcoterritorial demarcation of Mexico City6 km
- National PalaceSeat of the Executive branch of the Mexican Federal Government in Mexico City6.8 km
- Miguel Hidalgoterritorial demarcation of the Mexico City in Mexico3.1 km