México, Mexico · North America
San Mateo Ixtacalco works well as a base: 5 minutes from San José del Puente, 31km from Chapultepec Castle.
San Mateo Ixtacalco is in México, Mexico, with about 5,300 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is San José del Puente, about 4 km away.
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Within an hour or so of San Mateo Ixtacalco: Museo Nacional del Virreinato (6 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (24 km), Museo Nacional de Antropología (30 km), Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución) (30 km).
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
San Mateo Ixtacalco is in México, Mexico, about 4 km from San José del Puente.
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Essential numbers in Mexico
Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
Full driving guide for Mexico8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
A vast former Jesuit college at Tepotzotlán whose Church of San Francisco Javier holds Mexico's most overwhelming set of gilded Churrigueresque altarpieces: a wall-to-wall gold explosion, plus colonial art across the cloisters.
6 km · about 10 min drive
cathedral
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
24 km · about 30 min drive
museum
The world's greatest museum of pre-Columbian art and archaeology, home to the Aztec Sun Stone and stunning Maya artifacts.
30 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
One of the largest public plazas in the world and the historic heart of Mexico City, surrounded by the National Palace and Metropolitan Cathedral.
30 km · about 35 min drive
cathedral
The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.
30 km · about 35 min drive
restaurant
An 18th-century Mexico City palace sheathed on three sides in blue-and-white Puebla Talavera tile, its glass-roofed courtyard now the flagship Sanborns restaurant: breakfast under Orozco's staircase mural.
30 km · about 35 min drive
restaurant
Enrique Olvera's Polanco restaurant, where the signature mole madre is a black mole reheated for thousands of days and served as a single ring beside a fresh one. Two Michelin stars; book months ahead.
30 km · about 35 min drive
castle
A hilltop royal castle built in 1785, the only royal castle in the Americas, now housing the National Museum of History.
31 km · about 35 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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