Xochimilco is made up of chinampas, trajineras, museums, flower and plant markets, parish churches, parks and forests.
The Xochimilco canals and the traditional chinampa cultivation system are a World Heritage Site. More than 200 colorful trajineras depart from its ten piers to cross the canals, whose routes reach the chinampas or Isla de las Muñecas. Along the way, visitors can eat, celebrate with family or friends, sing with a mariachi or simply enjoy the beautiful scenery. There are few things in Mexico City as traditional as this.
Buying flowers is part of the Xochimilco experience, as is visiting the town center, with its magnificent Franciscan parish of San Bernardino de Siena, or the colorful traditional market.
Art lovers have a must at the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum, patron of painters such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and a key figure in the cultural life of Mexico in the last 50 years.
In the Bosque de Nativitas you can enjoy the wind in a palapa and ride a horse. To delight in nature and learn about conservation, go to the San Luis Tlalxialtemalco Forest, the Xochimilco Ecological Park, and the Chinampero Michmani Ecotourism Center.
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