Checking out New Mexico in 72 hours (or more!)


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Mexico City’s cathedral is considered the largest in all of Latin America.

This is the real-talk portion of your guide to Mexico City.

First, a note about the city’s name. In 2015, city “think-ocrats” initiated a global rebranding for Mexico’s capital. It lost its designation as a Federal District (akin to District of Columbia, as Washington DC in the United States is formally called), and became simply Ciudad de Mexico, but crucially, the government began pushing a fresh text shorthand: “CDMX”.

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