restaurant
Pujol
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.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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Ciudad López Mateos
México, Mexico · North America
About Ciudad López Mateos
Ciudad López Mateos works well as a base: 10 minutes from Vista Hermosa, 17km from Chapultepec Castle.
Ciudad López Mateos is in México, Mexico, with about 490,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Vista Hermosa, about 6 km away.
Ciudad López Mateos (most commonly called "Atizapán") is a city in the State of Mexico, Mexico, and the municipal seat of the municipality called Atizapán de Zaragoza. The city was previously named San Francisco Atizapán, but the official name was changed after president Adolfo López Mateos, who was born in that town.Read more
However, the city is still commonly known as Atizapán. There were 489,160 inhabitants according to the 2010 census. It is the seventh-largest city in the state. It includes the upscale neighborhood Zona Esmeralda.
This was the hometown of Mexican president Adolfo López Mateos, and a mausoleum was built for his remains in downtown Atizapán de Zaragoza.
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What is there to see near Ciudad López Mateos?
Within an hour or so of Ciudad López Mateos: Pujol (15 km), Museo Nacional de Antropología (16 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (17 km), Chapultepec Castle (17 km).
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The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is Ciudad López Mateos?
Ciudad López Mateos is in México, Mexico, about 6 km from Vista Hermosa.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 489,160
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- México
- Timezone
- America/Mexico_City
- Coordinates
- 19.5579, -99.2567
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Essential numbers in Mexico
Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
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Worth the detour from Ciudad López Mateos
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Museo Nacional de Antropología
The world's greatest museum of pre-Columbian art and archaeology, home to the Aztec Sun Stone and stunning Maya artifacts.
16 km · about 20 min drive
cathedral
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
17 km · about 20 min drive
castle
Chapultepec Castle
A hilltop royal castle built in 1785, the only royal castle in the Americas, now housing the National Museum of History.
17 km · about 20 min drive
museum
Museo Nacional del Virreinato
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.
18 km · about 20 min drive
restaurant
Casa de los Azulejos
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.
18 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución)
One of the largest public plazas in the world and the historic heart of Mexico City, surrounded by the National Palace and Metropolitan Cathedral.
19 km · about 20 min drive
cathedral
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.
19 km · about 20 min drive
When to drive here
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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