Mexico City: San Fernando Cemetery Guided Walking Tour

Highlights

• Explore the Museo Panteón de San Fernando with a historian guide
• Visit the Juárez Mausoleum and learn about its history
• See the grave of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico's second president
• Decode 19th-century funerary art and symbols of death
• Discover the true story of the Niños Héroes and the French Intervention

Description

Step inside the Museo Panteón de San Fernando, Mexico City's most important 19th-century cemetery. Discover a place where presidents, war heroes, and traitors lie side by side. Meet your local historian guide and begin your 90-minute immersive walking tour. Learn about the cemetery, founded in 1832 during a cholera epidemic, which became the exclusive resting place for the men who wrote Mexico's history between Independence and the Revolution. Visit the Juárez Mausoleum, the monumental Parthenon-like tomb of Benito Juárez, Mexico's most revered president, and his family. Discover why his enemy, Porfirio Díaz, built it for him. See the grave of Vicente Guerrero, the Afro-Mestizo hero of Independence and second president of Mexico, and the tomb of Ignacio Zaragoza, the general who defeated the French on Cinco de Mayo. Decode 19th-century funerary art, including weeping angels, broken columns, skulls, and Masonic symbols. Hear the true story of the Niños Héroes, the French Intervention, and why Mexico buried its liberals and conservatives in the same ground.

Includes

90-minute immersive walking tour Local historian guide Visit to Museo Panteón de San Fernando Storytelling experience about Mexican history

Excludes

Transportation

Important Information

• The tour is not a ghost tour The museum only allows small groups Located 3 blocks from Metro Hidalgo Perfect for history lovers, photographers, and travelers who want to go beyond the typical No music, no smoking Please be sure to bring an umbrella if you visit from June to September

Easy cancellation

Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund