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.
0 km · about 5 min drive
North AmericaMexicoMexico City
Polanco
Mexico City, Mexico · North America
About Polanco
Polanco works well as a base: 10 minutes from Cuauhtémoc, 2km from Chapultepec Castle.
Polanco is in Mexico City, Mexico, with about 50,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Cuauhtémoc, about 6 km away.
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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residential area of large single-family homes, the land use of the neighborhood began to change in the second half of the 20th century. Particularly after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, the former residences were replaced by commercial properties and high rise buildings. Today, Polanco is best known as a shopping district.
Polanco is known for having one of the country's densest concentrations of luxury shopping, with the most upscale restaurants, high-net-worth individuals, upscale hotels, and diplomatic missions and embassies. It is one of the most expensive real estate markets in Latin America.
A newer development north of Polanco, popularly termed "Nuevo Polanco", is a business district that is home to BBVA, WeWork and Telecel while also housing important cultural institutions such as the Museo Soumaya and the Colección Jumex. Nuevo Polanco, officially in the colonias of Granada and Ampliación Granada, is not part of the Polanco neighborhood. However, Polanco and Nuevo Polanco are sometimes grouped together.
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What is there to see near Polanco?
Within an hour or so of Polanco: Pujol (0 km), Chapultepec Castle (2 km), Museo Nacional de Antropología (2 km), Casa de los Azulejos (6 km).
Are there any good drives near Polanco?
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is Polanco?
Polanco is in Mexico City, Mexico, about 6 km from Cuauhtémoc.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 50,000
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- Mexico City
- Timezone
- America/Mexico_City
- Coordinates
- 19.4333, -99.1992
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Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
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Worth the detour from Polanco
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
2 km · about 5 min 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.
2 km · about 5 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.
6 km · about 10 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.
7 km · about 15 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.
7 km · about 15 min drive
museum
Museo Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul)
The vibrant blue house where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, and died, filled with her art, personal objects, and Diego Rivera's collection.
10 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.
10 km · about 20 min drive
Driving roads near Polanco
- 70 kmPaso de CortésThe 3,600-m saddle between the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, reached by a paved mountain road from Amecameca: the route Cortés marched into the Valley of Mexico in 1519.
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