VanDam's new 2025 StreetSmart® CDMX maps all attractions, archeological sites, museums, markets, boutique hotels, haciendas, destination restaurants, famed taquerías, urban skateparks & ecotourism parks at an immensely legible scale complete with a 3-D relief view of the Valle de México’s volcanic peaks. Clear information design allows you to read the map from three feet away and has earned VanDam maps a place in the MoMA Collection. The map is film-laminated, accordion folded & pocket-size.
Coverage:
- Greater CDMX Map 1:205,000;
- City Walking Map: 1:15,500;
- San Ángel & Coyoacán Walking Maps: 1:19,000;
- Ciudad Universitaria Map: 1:46,500;
- Teotihuacán Map: 1:6,000;
- Size: 4 x 9 folded, 9 x 36 unfolded, easily fits into shirt pocket/purse.
StreetSmart® CDMX is so legible you will instantly understand how Art deco Condesa with its verdant parks connects to Chapultepec Park with its many museums. Where to have a splendid outdoor lunch in fashionable Polanco. You’ll walk confidently from hipster Roma Norte through edgy Juárez to the historic district with Templo Mayor and Palacio Nacional on the Zócalo as grand finales.
México City conjures many images: Giant latin metropolis of 21.6 million (actually 8.99m in the city & 12.6m in surrounding México state), sprawling city of palaces, the intellectual capital of Latin America, feast of 1st class museums, a food capital, an architectural wonderland, birthplace of the Aztec Empire & lately skateboarding paradise & “the new Berlin,” all ringed by 4,000 meter high volcanoes.
StreetSmart® CDMX focuses on the urban core, selects the best & directs you safely in seven self-guided walks: from Condesa’s unique, circular, Av Amsterdam surrounding subtropical Parque México to the boutiques, galleries (OMR) & hot restaurants of Roma Norte. Grab a taco al pastor at Orinoco after crossing Insurgentes, the spine of the megalopolis. The “Museum walk” takes you on an art-filled stroll along majestic Paseo de la Reforma through Chapultepec Park starting from the must-visit Museo de la Andropología.
Other standouts are Arte Moderno, Contemporáneo Tamayo & Nacional de la Historia which lead you into headquarters Av past Torre Reforma - voted best global skyscraper in 2018 - toward Centro Historico. The “Centro walk” from Alameda Central via Palacio de Bellas Artes to the giant Zócalo ending at Templo Mayor - the G spot of Aztec culture - is time travel through Mexican history as illustrated & bookended by Diego Rivera’s stunning murals starting at Museo de Mural and ending with his classic in the Palacio Nacional.
Dining options on the way range from experimental Limosneros to institutions like El Popular, El Cardenal & Café Tacuba. All of this is clearly marked in context on the map. After the of Templo Mayor, a perfect finish may be a table with a view on the terrace at Las Sirenas overlooking Catedral Metropolitana. Connoisseurs of Mexican seafood head to the new Caracol next door.
Walks 6 & 7 are designed as weekend diversions in the south of the City. Start your Saturday in Coyoacán at the casa where Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo’s lover, was killed on Stalin’s orders, then proceed to join the fans awaiting entrance into the Frida Kahlo Museum. Further south are the Mercado and the plazas of Hidalgo & Centenario for a cafecito. Continue on Av Francisco Sosa to San Ángel on what is arguably the prettiest street in all of Mexico (45 min walk). ]After crossing busy Insurgentes visit Museo El Carmen, the local markets around Plz San Jacinto then savor a latin jazz brunch at Saks.
