The Müuse Atlas / Mexico

Mexico City

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Centro HistóricoFilming in Centro Histórico, Mexico City. Tezontle stone palaces and church towers around the vast paved Zócalo, where Spectre staged its Day of the Dead opening sequence.

CondesaFilming in Condesa, Mexico City. Streets curve in a long oval around two parks lined with cream stucco Art Deco apartment blocks, where Man on Fire once filmed in the larger of the two.

CoyoacánFilming in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Two colonial plazas meet beneath a sixteenth century church and low houses in strong colours behind high walls, among them the real house where Trotsky was assassinated, used in the film El Elegido.

PolancoFilming in Polanco, Mexico City. Wide tree-lined avenues of embassies and designer boutiques give way to 1940s stone houses on the side streets, and the hotel tower where Total Recall filmed its penthouse and lobby scenes.

San ÁngelFilming in San Ángel, Mexico City. Cobblestone streets and walled colonial estates around the plaza where Dos tipos de cuidado filmed in 1953.

XochimilcoFilming in Xochimilco, Mexico City. Emilio Fernández filmed María Candelaria on these canals and chinampas in 1943, and painted trajineras are still poled between the willow-lined plots.