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managed to get through thanks to the help of a boy who literally threw himself into the street to stop traffic .
We explored the city with the convenient subway and moving on foot in the wonderful neighbourhoods of Roma , Condesa and along the Paseo de la Riforma and Av . Constituyentes and Revolucion avenues . We discovered a city that has redone its makeup after the terrible earthquake of 2017 , full of buildings of inestimable beauty and value , where it was possible to enjoy excellent street food while relaxing on a bench in the Bosque de Chapultepec , which seemed light years away from the traffic .
The Zócalo was the place that for the ancient Aztecs represented the centre of the universe and the line that connected the ruins of the Templo Mayor to the Catedral Metropolitana passing through the Palacio Nacional traces the history of the nation since the 15th century to this day . About fifty kilometres to the north there were the ruins of what was the largest pre-Hispanic city in Mesoamerica : Teotihuacàn . We still remembered the image of the pyramids of the Sun and Moon that were in our elementary school history books and found them in front of us , witnesses of the incredible technological knowledge of that civilisation , excited us . The city ' s grid plan was drawn up in the
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