National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.

The Paseo de la Reforma leads from the center to the green lung of the city: Chapultepec Park. There is surrounded by other museums, the hood that protects the origins of complex network is now the Mexican nation, the National Museum of Anthropology. The building was designed by famed Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, and was opened in 1964. Surely when entering fall under the spell of its central courtyard with a huge umbrella, representing a mythological tree, with carved eagles and jaguars, all which are important symbols for the Mesoamerican cultures. That beautiful view justifies the visit, but the best is yet to come.

The museum is divided into 23 themed rooms. There you will find a space dedicated to the first nomadic tribes and another to the Olmec culture, which flourished more than three thousand years ago. There are also rooms dedicated to the Maya, Zapotec, Toltec, Teotihuacan and Mexica or Aztecs. In the gardens are some replicas of stelae and sculptures from famous archaeological zones in Chiapas, Oaxaca and Yucatan.

The most visited part is, undoubtedly, the Piedra de Sol, bad popularly called "Aztec calendar" which is a monolith of 25 tons dated to the 15th century and was discovered in what is now the Zocalo. You can also admire here the reconstruction of a Mayan tomb of the eighth century and a copy of the plume of Moctezuma.