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Mexico’s Gilded Age The Porfiriato: art, power and revolution.

By Edgar MS
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The previous price was RM 128 and current price is RM 102 per adult
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Overview

If you’re interested in discovering the artistic essence of Mexico, step with me into a guided journey where architecture, history, and social transformation intertwine.

I’m Edgar, certified local guide and I invite you to explore Mexico’s own Gilded Age: the Porfiriato. Together, we’ll walk through opulent mansions, grand palaces, and emblematic landmarks that still preserve the elegance, European eclecticism, and ambition of a dictator.

We’ll revisit the final years of a 19th-century regime built on progress and inequality, and trace how those tensions gave rise to a new artistic and architectural identity and helped ignite one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th century: Mexican Muralism.

This is more than a historical walk — it is a journey to understand the aesthetic transformation of Mexico in the 20th century: from dictatorship to cultural renaissance.

Activity location

  • Museo Mural Diego Rivera
    • Colon 7, at Calle Balderas
    • Mexico City, Mexico

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Torre Caballito
    • 10 Avenida Paseo de la Reforma
    • 06030, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico

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Mexico’s Gilded Age The Porfiriato: art, power and revolution.
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English
Starting time: 12:30
Price details
RM 127.30
RM 101.84 x 1 AdultRM 101.84
Total
The previous price was RM 127.30 and current price is RM 101.84
20% off

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    Entrance fee
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    In-person Guide
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    Government Fees
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    Gratuities
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    Snacks

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Activity itinerary

Museo Mural Diego Rivera

  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Admire with me one of Diego Rivera's most important murals, which portrays Mexican society with characters from the Spanish conquest to the 19th century.

Alameda Central

  • 45m
Lets walk through one of the oldest parks in the Americas to learn about Mexican society, paying attention to some of the old mansions of the richest people of the time.

Palacio de Bellas Artes

  • 30m
We'll walk around the lobby of the Palace of Fine Arts, an emblematic theater of the Porfiriato period, which encapsulates in its architecture the social tensions surrounding the industrial development of Mexico and the social issues of the time.

Palacio Postal

  • 30m
We'll appreciate the splendor of the Mexican Gilded Age in one of the most beautiful venues in the city, a space where luxury was not designed for private enjoyment but for the Mexican public postal service. Let's walk around the entrance and lobby of this fabulous building of the Mexican Gilded Age.

Dulceria de Celaya

  • 30m
Come visit and enjoy one of the oldest Mexican candy shops in the city, which has the original decorations from its opening in 1874.

Location

Activity location

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    Museo Mural Diego Rivera
    • Colon 7, at Calle Balderas
    • Mexico City, Mexico

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Torre Caballito
    • 10 Avenida Paseo de la Reforma
    • 06030, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico

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