Ciudad de México Trip Overview
Live the city from another perspective cycling its streets off the tourist path with our cyclist team.
Open your eyes to the biggest art gallery in Mexico City: its streets. Chilango urban artists translate its traditions, history, and culture into the concrete canvas of the walls.
Calmly ride your way through the colorful barrios and first districts of current Mexico City; from the hippest Roma-Condesa’s pop-culture to the Obrera Doctores’ social outcries, the streets are swarmed with a public-space-reclaiming Street art that brings art out of museums connecting communities around it.
Get to know the stories of those who have built the identity of the chilangos, the people of this city, through interesting facts and some historical background by our local guide in our small-group tour limited to ten people.
And what better way to end than enjoying some tasty chilango street food; there’s something for everyone’s taste and diets.
Live Mexico City’s Urban art on a bike!
Additional Info
Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Ciudad de México, Mexico
Trip Category: Walking & Biking Tours >> Bike & Mountain Bike Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Live the city from another perspective cycling its streets off the tourist path with our cyclist team.
Open your eyes to the biggest art gallery in Mexico City: its streets. Chilango urban artists translate its traditions, history, and culture into the concrete canvas of the walls.
Calmly ride your way through the colorful barrios and first districts of current Mexico City; from the hippest Roma-Condesa’s pop-culture to the Obrera Doctores’ social outcries, the streets are swarmed with a public-space-reclaiming Street art that brings art out of museums connecting communities around it.
Get to know the stories of those who have built the identity of the chilangos, the people of this city, through interesting facts and some historical background by our local guide in our small-group tour limited to ten people.
And what better way to end than enjoying some tasty chilango street food; there’s something for everyone’s taste and diets.
Live Mexico City’s Urban art on a bike!
Choose your bicycle as the team helps you feel comfortable in the saddle at this Downtown shop, pay attention to the safety advice of your local guide whose thousand kilometers cycled will give you the confidence to surf Mexico city´s traffic in search of the dynamic street art scene from stencilling to spray painting, from freehand drawing to stickering, local and international artists alike are making the city their canvas.
Embark upon your exploration at Guerrero district where a full avenue has been awash with paint, thoughts and ideas to promote the recovery of public space, through artistic works of young Mexicans who use walls that previously suffered a visual deterioration been in marginal areas like Lagunilla and the non-turisty Centro to get the sense of the energetic merchants that have invaded the streets in a real urban scenery.
Making the way to Obrera and Doctores district to visit the works of renowned international an local artists at the Antique toys museum place for the first Street Art Festival in 2011, since then the spirit has remain, inspiring the community to preserve and promote new works, to make an easier transition well have a break at the Pushkin garden to get an intro to the Chic Roma where gentrification has made it the place for eateries, bars and everything ending in “ría” where brands had pay to embellished their walls and marketing products at Condesa, where pop and hipster culture showcase in every corner.
Finally will head back crossing Juárez and Cuahutemoc borroughs to beawad by some of the biggest murals painted in various techniques to end the bike tour at Alameda to Diego Rivera Mural, so you can ponder on the evolution of Mexican Muralism from the late 20´s to present era in search of a national identity that is enriched by the local diversity of each artist.
